Example sentences of "what [pers pn] would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents , who were born here also , called me Headmaster at birth because they knew that 's what I would be . ’ |
| 2 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 3 | What I would be inclined to do is to introduce more hiding places , in the form of additional plants , bogwood and rocks . |
| 4 | I lay there with absolutely no idea what I would be doing the following day or if I stood any chance of being selected by the Legion . |
| 5 | Where I have a little concern and that 's only 'cos I do n't know the of all of it , is that you are picking up , yes very minor non-conformances but in practice fairly large numbers in a fairly short time scale what I would be concerned about is when you get your B S I audit that these other areas that you have n't looked at have got equally this lack of attention to detail , that you end up with not only major break down in your system , but sufficient minor breakdowns in your system , to cause them to say that they wo n't give you registration . |
| 6 | I think , I hope we 've pointed out to you the essential differences between what Brian would be looking for as a , as a magazine editor if you like , and what I would be looking for as a , as a news editor . |
| 7 | What I would be looking for there is that you 've got a council , I do n't know how many people there are , and you 've got a thousand plus tonnes of waste you know you 've got a waste mountain being produced . |
| 8 | She had an exact estimation of herself ; she knew what she could accomplish now , and was certain of what she would be capable later . |
| 9 | That , at any rate , she had always known was what she would be , in the end . |
| 10 | She was dying to ask Mrs MacDonald what she would be wearing , and then thought better of it . |
| 11 | He knew what she would be doing and why she had not called him . |
| 12 | Anna was in danger of dying because he had not enough to offer her to replace what she would be losing . |
| 13 | There was no variety at all — you knew exactly what you would be doing at any given moment of the week . |
| 14 | They might get work in , like construction work and the making of roads and that kind of thing … but how long would that last for and we 'd be left with what , like you do n't know what you would be left with in the end , ’ said Mary Catherine , who concluded ‘ I 'm not one to stop progress by any manner of means but I do n't think gold mining is progress . |
| 15 | Imagine yourself on holiday ; think about where you would be , what you would be doing , the kind of food and drink you 'd be eating and enjoying . |
| 16 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 17 | The fresh air she breathed made pure blood for you , and often during the day she wondered what you would be like , whether your eyes would be blue or brown , and prayed God to make you a good child . |
| 18 | I think probably that is at completely the other end of the spectrum , and would be stifling the natural growth in North Yorkshire and what you would be doing then is is acting against the erm the inhab the existing inhabitant of North Yorkshire because you would probably be forcing them out of their county . |
| 19 | So if you were serious about promoting social housing over time what you would be working for is not a stop go economy in housing , not a stopped go regime in terms of halas housing finance , but a stable , a long term commitment towards er er a financial regime that will actually bring that housing through and that is something you have not done . |
| 20 | So basically what you , you , what you would be likely to do is rip o rip off the system completely for two years at a time |
| 21 | We have included ‘ answers ’ to the three introductory cases in order to give you an idea of what we would be looking for if we were marking your responses . |
| 22 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 23 | ‘ Chelmsford seems to be taking a very hard line , but our legal department and the council 's legal department are in discussions to see just what we would be able to sell on Sundays . ’ |
| 24 | What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ? |
| 25 | What we would be looking for from you is a talk of some 15–20 minutes duration outlining what can be done for public transport by traffic management techniques and perhaps illustrated by some Lothian examples , together with a willingness to answer any questions which may be put to you . |
| 26 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 27 | No , what we would be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that the customers can see before they enter into the transaction , and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 28 | But when the list of prescribed core and other foundation subjects was scrutinised , along with the suggested allocations of curricular time spelled out in the consultation document , many teachers wondered whether what they would be getting would not be a ‘ straitjacket ’ after all . |
| 29 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes and wondered what they would be doing . |