Example sentences of "would [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had known his mother would be on stage and her dresser Jessie in the wings waiting to help her with her quick change , and Bunty alone ; but he had not bargained for her not being dressed . |
| 2 | And that same me , who twenty-four hours earlier had decided she could never go back to Harwich , would be on her way there tomorrow . |
| 3 | On paper , however , the vessels would be on the order of the United States , enabling Israel to receive American financing and circumventing West German export restrictions . |
| 4 | There were doubts , however , that the Soviet would be on board for the second leg . |
| 5 | Accordingly , he has drawn up a document outlining his position on negotiations which he means to make public , so the people are fully apprised of the proposals that would be on the table . |
| 6 | If she took her problem to Rachel , Rachel would listen and she would be on Maggie 's side . |
| 7 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 8 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 9 | A similar argument can be applied to urine production except that the emphasis , would be on fluid intake . |
| 10 | Any cuts would be on top of production line redundancies and would come only a year after GM finished cutbacks which slashed its white-collar staff by 40,000 to 140,000 worldwide . |
| 11 | It 's still not uncommon to meet people who declare that if one were seated in a Parisian cafe , rather than a British pub , then the conversation would be on a different level . |
| 12 | Eventually , just before 2 p.m. , a small delegation arrived at the Elephant and Castle seeking clarification of what would be on offer . |
| 13 | Sometimes his collection of gnomes would be on display , and every anniversary was commemorated by faded buff photographs and artefacts . |
| 14 | She would be on her way back from a reading at the weekend and passing through London . |
| 15 | It appeared that , without changes in policy , Britain would be on the way to racial suicide . |
| 16 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 17 | It felt as if she was facing death : what would be on the other side ? |
| 18 | When she pointed out this might mean she would be on her own yet again throughout another summer he shrugged and said it could not be helped and he had no choice . |
| 19 | I wondered what the Guardian headlines would be on the day of the Second Coming . |
| 20 | There are plenty of cases in which each member of a co-operating group is better off than it would be on its own . |
| 21 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 22 | But he said on Newsnight it was ‘ quite probable ’ that the next election would be on the first-past-the-post principle . |
| 23 | The Australian captain also suggested that the number of umpires be increased from two to three , though only two would be on the pitch at one time . |
| 24 | ‘ If I was n't defending , I would be on the next plane home , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Half of those would be on leave for a quickly arranged replay and I estimate the cost would be in the region of £30,000 . ’ |
| 26 | All their concentration would be on the great white wall of crashing surf ahead . |
| 27 | Ten minutes , fifteen at the most , and the wind would be on them , tearing them from the saddle . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But no one knows what the biological effects would be on the astronauts undertaking such a trip Christopher Joyce |