Example sentences of "they would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one-sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick . |
| 2 | It came as a shock when President Babangida said the associations were rooted in ‘ ethnic and religious bigotry ’ and that all of them would be dissolved forthwith . |
| 3 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 4 | Many factors can cause this but one of them would be a body temperature that is not falling fast enough in the evening . |
| 5 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 6 | Deals have already been struck to dispose of $641million worth of businesses to American and UK buyers and any decision by shareholders to block them would be a fatal blow to the recapitalisation of the SeaCo group . |
| 7 | Videotaped interviews should only be excluded if admitting them would be contrary to the interests of justice . |
| 8 | Disarmers were uneasily aware that , even if all existing nuclear weapons were destroyed , the knowledge of how to make them would be revived fast enough in the event of a future global war . |
| 9 | On one occasion , when the first two volumes were banned by Royal Decree , and the order went out to seize the unpublished texts and plates , Malesherbes suggested that the best place to conceal them would be his own house . |
| 10 | If the sea did not constantly encroach , the salt within them would be washed out by rain . |
| 11 | There would again be an increase in the ability of a elements to overshadow c elements , but in addition the reduction of the number of c elements activated by A would mean that relatively few of them would be capable of acquiring associative strength in the first place . |
| 12 | The sight of them would be enough to give designers of air balls , gels and energy return systems the jitters , and although he has never measured his mileage , he estimated he had run at least 25,000 miles in them , and possibly more ! |
| 13 | He realized that Rommel 's lines of communication had become so stretched that they would be even more vulnerable to attack , and every man detached to guard them would be one less to face the Eighth Army at Alamein . |
| 14 | Most of them would be unlikely to sponsor a wholesale reconstruction of the educational system and were content to work strenuously within the generous limits of the new Act of 1944 . |
| 15 | Unless it is submitted that prisoners have , on entering prison , surrendered all rights over their own bodies , in which case medical experimentation on them would be equally lawful , the case can not stand as authority for the proposition that there exists a duty , even as regards prisoners , far less at large , to prevent someone from refusing food and , a fortiori , medical treatment . |
| 16 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 17 | Not all of them would be learning the same thing , parrot-fashion , up and down the country . |
| 18 | They were still there and I was sure that one of them would be going my way . |
| 19 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 20 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 21 | Like the Seer whose visions are always ideal and beyond human senses , his buildings were his poems and they were beyond human scale and to build them would be to defile them . |
| 22 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |
| 23 | But the corporation says that 5000 jobs could be created by the scheme , although few of them would be at the airport itself . |
| 24 | Theologians and others should have no special influence , except that , from them would be expected the contribution of those ‘ pearls of wisdom ’ which they , by virtue of their training and studies , are best equipped to extract from the religions and scriptural writings of the past . |
| 25 | The remaining turnover from them would be pure profit . |
| 26 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 27 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 28 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 29 | It was important to him that neither of them would be financially dependent on the other . |
| 30 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |