Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She continued : ‘ My kitchen would be in the other … what a luxury to be in my mother and able to look outside … ! |
| 2 | I was afraid that my father would be like that , that when he turned around his eyes would be glass , they would n't take in what they saw . |
| 3 | My ideal would be to not give a damn as much as possible . |
| 4 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 5 | Erm I support I V F treatment and I sympathize with the people that ca n't have children erm but my concern would be with the childrens ' right . |
| 6 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 7 | He thanked me and said that my application would be on the table for consideration at the next meeting of the committee . |
| 8 | By now the Arab with my coat would be in Malaga waiting for the boat across to Africa . |
| 9 | How susceptible my brother would be to whatever vibes I could send out was a question I did n't like too much to think about , given the state of his head , but I had to do something . |
| 10 | My understanding is that A those do n't exist at present within the deposit plan , but if they did at some future date , for any reason , that their function would be to be used after two thousand and six to sustain the permanence of the greenbelt . |
| 11 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |
| 12 | All their concentration would be on the great white wall of crashing surf ahead . |
| 13 | An arbitrary and unwarranted termination of their engagement would be against the organization 's own interests . |
| 14 | The Chief Executive had been notified that her lawyer would be on holiday on 11 July so this date should be avoided . |
| 15 | The appeal committee dismissed the applicant 's appeals , stating that to put any more pressure on a year intake that was up to its capacity would be beyond the school 's resources and detrimental to its ability to provide an efficient education , and that the girls did not meet the admission criteria . |
| 16 | After giving the case careful consideration , the panel decided that , as is stated in section 6(3) ( a ) of the Education Act 1980 , that to put any more pressure on a year intake that was up to its capacity would be beyond the school 's resources and detrimental to its ability to provide an efficient education . |
| 17 | Their disagreement would be over ways of expressing ‘ the topic ’ . |
| 18 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |
| 19 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 20 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 21 | Erm , over the page , the section , and the session , training needs position , erm , the erm , the work of the consultants has been completed , and we 've still not got a report from Tech or any indication of , of erm , what their reaction would be to the , to the report which comes out . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that trespass is actionable per se , there is some authority to the effect that trespass to goods requires proof of some damage or asportation but the general view of textbook writers is to the contrary and there must be many instances where , if mere touching of objects like waxworks or exhibits in a gallery or museum be not trespass , their possessor would be without remedy . |
| 23 | Neither her mother nor her father would be of any use at all . |
| 24 | Unless a matter were extraordinarily urgent , the only occasion for its use would be in relation to the passage of a Bill to extend the life of Parliament and even here , the abolition of the House of Lords might be a preferred course . |
| 25 | Without them sizable part of its economy would be in danger of collapse . |
| 26 | On a visit to Mrs Chamberlin she explained that she did not like to leave her aunt and would from then on come only once a week , and she put it about that for the moment , neither she nor her aunt would be at home on Wednesday afternoons . |
| 27 | The press began to campaign with a strongly pro-tram tone for a decision on renewing the tram track : ‘ The tram is such an efficient means of transport — its retention would be in line with modern ideas , and the expense would be justified ’ . |
| 28 | Most physical scientists are unable to imagine what their subject would be like if there were no elements and no fundamental particles . |
| 29 | If an atom were to be magnified to 100 metres diameter , the size of a large concert hall , then the nucleus in its centre would be about the size of a grain of salt . |
| 30 | The Benefit was an unqualified success , which was the main thing , but asking for the support of hundreds of strangers inevitably meant that the focus of their concern would be on John as well as on the terrible thing that was happening to him . |