Example sentences of "would [adv] be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 2 | not , which , one which would not be over in a year and a half . |
| 3 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 4 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 5 | The two girls would not be back till the following weekend . |
| 6 | Her husband had taken lunch with him , and would not be back till teatime . |
| 7 | Kemp had told Ashenden , and Ashenden had then told everyone else , that he ( Kemp ) would not be back from London until 3 p.m . |
| 8 | Over at the Department of Trade and Industry the news that Francesca would not be back before Thursday morning was being received with open dismay . |
| 9 | He would not be back until Friday evening . |
| 10 | Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening . |
| 11 | She told us that the priest would not be back until the afternoon . |
| 12 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 13 | Nina wanted to keep holding hands , and hurried the sleeves over her arms so they would not be out of contact for long . |
| 14 | But in the crazy world of intelligence that would not be out of place . |
| 15 | The Shepherd 's Week ( 1714 ) , though clearly a burlesque , used images of agricultural life that would not be out of place in the work of Duck or of Mary Collier . |
| 16 | The results range from the almost predictable ( say the unsettled but distinctly South African ‘ township ’ feel of Lullaby ) to the totally unpredictable , ; the title track is indeed just that , ranging from a tight , boppy ensemble that would not be out of place as a riff in a Basie band arrangement and transforming ( metamorphosing — see ? ) into a complex interweaving of improvised joint soloing against rhythmic drumbeats and back again . |
| 17 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 18 | In Tune with the Infinite , subtitled Fullness of Peace , Power and Plenty , would not be out of place on any committed New Ager 's bookshelf if it were n't for the frequent references to God and the Holy Spirit . |
| 19 | At least the newly painted floor would not be out of commission too long . |
| 20 | The Mail had a regular page for women which would not be out of place in an English daily , where it may well have originated : |
| 21 | He persuaded the government to allow a group of students to be sent to the USA in 1872 , but they were recalled for fear they might become ‘ too gay ( morally loose ) or western ’ ( Wang 1928 : 44 ) , a comment which would not be out of place in more recent times . |
| 22 | There are pastures which would not be out of place in the Peak District , woods reminiscent of mid Wales , sharp climbs and panoramic views . |
| 23 | Elderly people in residential care live in conditions which would not be out of place in prison , according to Help the Aged . |
| 24 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 25 | There are some relentless industrial dance tracks here , like the opener ‘ Agitate ’ or ‘ In Vain ’ , which would not be out of place amidst the FLA/Skinny Puppy/Front 242 axis . |
| 26 | There are some relentless industrial dance tracks here , like the opener ‘ Agitate ’ or ‘ In Vain ’ , which would not be out of place amidst the FLA/Skinny Puppy/Front 242 axis . |
| 27 | Although Digital has never put a figure on the number involved in what it terms the downsizing of its operations , the company 's president , Robert Palmer , has said that those figures would not be out of line . |
| 28 | There is not a golfer among us who would not be out on the green every day if the weather and our partners would allow . |
| 29 | AFTER The Graduate finished shooting , Dustin returned to New York to live quietly with Anne and her daughter Karina in his small Greenwich Village apartment on West 11th Street , having absolutely no conception of how his performance or the film would be received and not fully realising that the long days of anonymity would soon be over for ever . |
| 30 | So , surely there could be no objection to someone taking a look at a place that would soon be up for sale anyway ? |