Example sentences of "they would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The clearing banks as well as the discount houses have the opportunity to buy Treasury bills on such occasions , as otherwise they would be at a substantial disadvantage compared with the discount houses in finding an outlet for surplus funds . |
| 32 | They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel . |
| 33 | Special Branch , which works closely with MI5 , has its own computer system which keeps records on many millions of people none of whom have committed any offence ( if they had they would be on the Police National Computer ) split into 27 different groups such as ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ controversial ’ and ‘ subversive ’ . |
| 34 | They would be on army pay , but I would be in command . |
| 35 | As a couple , they appear as ‘ babes in the wood ’ , helpless and hopeless together as they would be on their own , beset by the awfulness of everyone else . |
| 36 | As soon as Dennis arrived , she would bandage him up and they would be on their way by five thirty . |
| 37 | That way , they would know exactly where they were , and this time , if they turned right , then right again , they would be on course for the station . |
| 38 | They would be on the same corridor as him in the Embassy 's accommodation annexe , and later they would talk through the case history together . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Not because she could n't remember , but because it was such a long time since she 'd seen her and she felt strange , suddenly , knowing that this time tomorrow they would be on their way to Scotland and she would be waiting for them . |
| 41 | Following the judgement , it was clear to anyone concerned to suppress publication of the Diaries , or any part of them , that they would be on an impossibly bad wicket . |
| 42 | They would be on their backs , legs in the air and their bellies all blown up . |
| 43 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , braking and getting out — at least they would be on the same level then , instead of her being ten frigid feet tall and him crouching six inches high in the driving seat of his car — ‘ about last night … ’ |
| 44 | The planes were already warming up ; it was a short flight , only thirty miles ; with luck they would be on patrol again that afternoon . |
| 45 | In Hungary the roads improved and from Vienna they would be on motorways all the way to the Channel . |
| 46 | They would be on college property , and that was somehow different — not like breaking into a stranger 's house in the outside world . |
| 47 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |
| 48 | Claims to privilege are the same as they would be on ordinary discovery . |
| 49 | But they would be on the lines they would be on there are erm measures being taken at the moment |
| 50 | But they would be on the lines they would be on there are erm measures being taken at the moment |
| 51 | They would be with him in no time . |
| 52 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 53 | long poles they were , they would be about that . |
| 54 | Before long they would be off the map . |
| 55 | Those would assess if they would be among the winners and losers from the reform of a tax system which Mr Lamont said was starting to appear increasingly anachronistic . |
| 56 | As early as June 1992 the Wickert Research Institute , from a poll of 4,219 voters , showed that 74 per cent felt that Germany could no longer afford European Union ; 81 per cent wanted a referendum on monetary union ; 82 per cent of these said that they would be against replacing the Deutschmark with the ECU . |
| 57 | They would be from Canada , from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might put up various old acquaintances passing through London , or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy , not so very much older than Martha , whose father was a kind of Count , but was also in the import-export business , or try to recall a splendid person , the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very , very sad story . |
| 58 | They would be in the North Kent grazing marshes , an extension to the South Downs ESA , the Hampshire Avon Valley , the River Burn catchment in Northern Ireland , the North Staffordshire Moors , the whole of Anglesey , the Forest of Bowland near Preston , Orkney and Shetland , and both the Inner and Outer Hebrides . |
| 59 | In the first place , I always threatened the orchestra that if they played too loudly I would simply lower them by ten centimetres ; and if they continued , then by the end of the first act they would be in the dungeon . |
| 60 | Ten , fifteen minutes to gain the shelter of the forest — though even there they would be in danger of being pulped into nothingness by trees ripped from the rain-softened earth . |