Example sentences of "they would be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 2 | Oh they were they were er crisscrosses and er and r and some of them would be rounded . |
| 3 | Ianthe sighed , perhaps foreseeing the day when both of them would be replaced by younger persons . |
| 4 | I mean , the light coming from them would be bent — as if it had gone through crinkly glass — like you get in bathroom windows . |
| 5 | Subscribers who were in arrears were notified that no recommendation from them would be accepted . |
| 6 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 7 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 8 | Not supper — emphasize that — or more of them would be affected by now . |
| 9 | It was odd when he came to think about it , but every now and again one or two of them would be posted , yet the five men who had accompanied him from Cranwell , and whose beds were at the far end of the hut , were still here . |
| 10 | It seemed as though she liked to keep those she loved to herself , as if by sharing , some part of them would be lost to her forever . |
| 11 | Laud encouraged the King 's high view of his own position by causing Convocation to declare that kings ruled by divine right and that those who resisted them would be damned . |
| 12 | Because these histories did n't have any singularities or any beginning or end , what happened in them would be determined entirely by the laws of physics . |
| 13 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 14 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 15 | Much therefore depended on which brand of them would be returned and whether , as in the past , they would align themselves with the Conservative Party and accept its whip . |
| 16 | The idea was that , by raising the standards of these deprived areas , the children in them would be brought up to the levels of those in more privileged communities , and would then be able to compete with them on equal terms later in their educational careers . |
| 17 | Disarmers were uneasily aware that , even if all existing nuclear weapons were destroyed , the knowledge of how to make them would be revived fast enough in the event of a future global war . |
| 18 | There were two separate issues for the research : ( i ) which pupils would be included in the testing ; and , ( ii ) if a wide range of tests was to be developed , each of them would be taken by different and fairly small samples from among the target pupils , how could the comparability of the samples be checked ? |
| 19 | Obviously , if probes in this region were deleted one by one , starting from the probes known as repetitive ( containing ribosomal DNA or belonging to telomeres in this case ) , less of them would be deleted and the overlap would be successfully detected . |
| 20 | It came as a shock when President Babangida said the associations were rooted in ‘ ethnic and religious bigotry ’ and that all of them would be dissolved forthwith . |
| 21 | I 'm always joking that such a coupling would sell 20 copies , and 10 of them would be bought by my mother . |
| 22 | Theologians and others should have no special influence , except that , from them would be expected the contribution of those ‘ pearls of wisdom ’ which they , by virtue of their training and studies , are best equipped to extract from the religions and scriptural writings of the past . |
| 23 | Second , the pattern of voting would be the same in the 54 new constituencies as in the actual 108 , in which case 53 of them would be won by the Conservatives . |
| 24 | There are no hansoms ; and if there were , a file of them would be needed to transport a very ordinary Sahib 's effects . |
| 25 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 26 | Tito 's negotiators gave assurances that surrendered Croats would be humanely treated and that only " war criminals " among them would be tried and punished [ KP 128 and also Scott 's full account of the episode published in 1946 in Faugh-A-Ballagh , the journal of the Royal Irish Fusiliers ) . |
| 27 | If the sea did not constantly encroach , the salt within them would be washed out by rain . |
| 28 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 29 | Will Douglas , who as Knight of Liddesdale , and Keeper of that unruly area , looked on all Armstrongs as eminently hangable , was doubtful , to say the least , but recognised that to refuse to take them would be considered a grievous insult and could endanger them all thereafter . |
| 30 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |