Example sentences of "would be on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 'd be on automatic choke for a bit of the way , most of the way anyway so |
| 2 | I thought she 'd be on that one five minutes I 'll see what |
| 3 | And maybe an hour after we 'd be on three quarter rivets . |
| 4 | Some found it unacceptable because it would be on early in the evening , because it was a soap serial — and because the woman was committing adultery with a much younger man . |
| 5 | There was no assembly but there would be on other days for my group . |
| 6 | The purpose of the Act above all was that future developments would be on low-density garden suburb or garden city lines , primarily the former . |
| 7 | One possibility is to ignore the part of the award of damages which exceeds the amount exempt from tax under the ‘ golden handshake ’ rules , for instance by expressing the exempt amount ( currently £30,000 ) as an annual income over the unexpired period of the contract , estimating what the tax would be on that imaginary income and deducting that tax from the total compensation . |
| 8 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 9 | She would be on that flight even if Steve was n't . |
| 10 | Besides , there is no reason why the distribution of later preferences , any of which might become operative , would be the same on the 1,476 papers selected for transfer to Craig as it would be on all of the 3,813 papers including those not so selected . |
| 11 | When we used to go out in the street , I would be on one side of the matron holding her arm , my sister on the other side doing the same . |
| 12 | And although subsequent reviews found it thoroughly sane and quite uncontroversial , clerics of the Church of England publicly announced that they would be on standby alert to deal with any members of their congregation upset by the programmes . |
| 13 | Claims to privilege are the same as they would be on ordinary discovery . |
| 14 | She belongs to me ; this is no longer her home ; but we would be on friendly terms with you if — ’ |
| 15 | We were on our way to the river to photograph the landscape which , Lady Rutherford told us indignantly , would be ruined for ever if Mr Knightley allowed Mr Dinsdale and his industrialist friends to dig a quarry , part of which would be on common land . |
| 16 | If , however , Rueschemeyer were making not a positive statement about substantive differences between law and medicine in this respect but a statement about general beliefs in such differences he would be on surer ground . |
| 17 | Erm , first of all I did promise to you that I 'd give you some idea of the sort of material would be on next week 's erm multiple guess questions , okay ? |
| 18 | The theory is that my reschedule marker would be on next Tuesday 's , not a week Tuesday 's , diary page , because that 's the next time I 'm going to be able to do anything in my office . |