Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 've had two of those rest days prior to all this so I would be owed a fortnight 's holiday pay plus three rest days . |
| 2 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 3 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 4 | ‘ I like the exercise and , besides , I have two friends down the road in a Land Rover , ’ I said , implying that I would be given a lift . |
| 5 | You see , I would be teased a lot at school because I may not have been as quick as the others , but Bernard never joined in . |
| 6 | When I moved to Gloucestershire in 1961 I was told by a neighbour to lie low and remember that , although the progeny of an adjacent county ( Worcestershire ) , I would be held a foreigner by Gloucestershire folk for at least 25 years . |
| 7 | Cos I was talking to Lilian , she was thinking that each year she 'd be given an update it should be a five year plan . |
| 8 | So in that first year , at ten percent , you 'd be given a capital allowance of five hundred pounds , to be set against a profit of four hundred pounds . |
| 9 | And the theory was that if you served thirty years in the Ce Central African police , you 'd be given a section of land in what later became Rhodesia . |
| 10 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone a week , perhaps longer . ’ |
| 11 | Rather than a shareholding , it was proposed that Wilson should be on an ‘ over-ride royalty ’ , whereby she would be paid a royalty for every record sold . |
| 12 | She would be considered a slut if she did , and since it is almost unheard of for a Ugandan man to do without sex for a year , her husband would usually seek another woman . |
| 13 | Between 1337 and 1353 the tax on wool formed part of a series of schemes under which the king attempted to establish a body of powerful and wealthy merchants who would be granted a monopoly in the purchase and export of wool in return for making loans to the king which would be repaid from the maltote , the export tax on wool . |
| 14 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |
| 15 | It might be understood in advance that the proportion of women who would be permitted an abortion would be fixed by the ratio of votes for permitting all abortions to total votes . |
| 16 | If you were a girl Wolf Cub you would be called a Louvette . |
| 17 | You would be paid a proportion of the amount stated in the Benefit Table . |
| 18 | An Extraordinary General Meeting will take place in late April or early May , and should sufficient agreement be forthcoming , there would be included a clause that no further reconstruction plans be permitted for five years . |
| 19 | Now , on the chaise to Banff , Boswell planned with Johnson that they would regenerate the University of St Andrews according to the abilities or conceits of the Club members , each of whom would be granted a Faculty or two . |
| 20 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 21 | Mark Fisher , the UK Labour Party Shadow Minister for the Arts and Media , has already stated that they are looking independently at various ideas for funding living artists and admitted that they would be considered an exhibition royalty ‘ earlier and more enthusiastically ’ than other methods such as droit de suite ( qv ) . |
| 22 | We did n't invite friends with Mother being placed as she was , but if neighbours called they would be offered a glass of something , usually home-made ginger cordial , and a bit of cake if we had it . |
| 23 | He was n't sure that he would be given a chance to hold on to his wife . |
| 24 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 25 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |