Example sentences of "would be [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’ |
| 2 | 1.14 " Working day " means any day on which clearing banks in the City of London are ( or would be but for a strike lock-out or other stoppage affecting such banks generally ) open during banking hours and " working days " shall be construed accordingly |
| 3 | A transfer of value is a disposition made by a person ( called the transferor ) as a result of which the value of his estate immediately after the disposition is less than it would be but for the disposition . |
| 4 | And then there would be the and then and while it would be while the f the coffin was in the house that it was was it ? |
| 5 | I think if we had a if we if we tried , as you say , labelled the leads and tried to keep the leads together with the video recorders and perhaps stick a think on the video recorder saying which leads belong to this particular thing then the problem would be 'cos this would provide you with a checklist whenever you lent it out as to whether it was coming back , or provide the leads in other words |
| 6 | The question for a court or tribunal would be whether your employer 's conduct forced you to resign . |
| 7 | In the event of Conservative defeat , one of the great questions never to be answered would be whether a decision to postpone full-scale implementation of the various forms of opting-out , in favour of local experiments , might have saved them . |
| 8 | ( Alternatively we could distinguish between two forms of justification , justification before the event and justification after it , and run the tripartite definition in terms of the former ; but then the question would be whether these really are two forms of the same thing . ) |
| 9 | And without such plea , none of the background to the case to which we have briefly alluded can ever be placed before the jury : the only issues arising would be whether or no the publication was defamatory and , if so , what should the damages be . |
| 10 | The question we would ask would be whether there was any difference in the electrical activity of the neurons in the IMHV as a result of training on the methylanthranilate bead . |
| 11 | The choice would be whether to draw one pair of curtains to stack back on the walls beside the windows , thus exposing the corner , or to have two separate pairs of curtains that draw from the centre of each window and thereby cover the corner area with fabric . |
| 12 | The key factor would be whether the presence of the trespasser should have been anticipated by Charles . |
| 13 | The only feature that one could not predict would be whether the pendulum was orbiting clockwise or anticlockwise . |
| 14 | Eggar said a key question for the review of the industry that the government plans to launch later this year would be whether new nuclear power stations could be commercially viable . |
| 15 | He suggested a better test would be whether the material would be judged as grossly offensive to an ordinary citizen . |
| 16 | Since that was the year that the Thunderer had finally decided to put news , rather than ads on the front page , it would be embarrassing-if bizarre — should unwary purchasers confuse the two products . |
| 17 | He wondered how long it would be before they gave up going to the clearing altogether . |
| 18 | Madame wondered how long it would be before Boy got his hair cropped short so that he looked just like the others . |
| 19 | Once he looked at his watch to see how long it would be before he was relieved . |
| 20 | ‘ I wondered how long it would be before you young buggers came sniffing around , ’ he said , with a belly laugh , and looked at Yanto . |
| 21 | After supper Uncle Bill would put me , as he always did , in the big double bed in the room next the kitchen , and then he 'd leave the door open , and I 'd lie and listen to him and Bernard yarning , wondering how soon it would be before they got into bed , one on either side of me . |
| 22 | I was wondering how long it would be before Caesar followed Captain 's example and took a bite out of Junior . |
| 23 | The knot in her stomach tightened as she wondered how long it would be before the Cap'n discovered where Midnight was hiding . |
| 24 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 25 | Likely what hundreds of others had to do : wonder , and think , and stick their fingers in their ears ; some , on the other hand , might even ask themselves how long it would be before they could try it . |
| 26 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 27 | I wondered how long it would be before I saw England again . |
| 28 | I wondered how long it would be before I was doing the things portrayed in the photos . |
| 29 | She wondered how long it would be before Kathy grew alarmed If Clare was n't home and had n't telephoned by two o'clock — or three at the latest — she reckoned that Kathy might phone the police , who would surely find her before long . |
| 30 | I wondered how long it would be before I stopped loving him . |