Example sentences of "that [pron] would be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company 's advisers , Baring Brothers , believe that nothing would be served by making Sir Derek a scapegoat at this stage . |
| 2 | He also urged party members not to resign over the issue , pointing out that nothing would be gained from such action . |
| 3 | Despite the well-deserved victory against the Premier League outfit , Cambridge chairman Reg Smart said that nothing would be announced for at least another 24 hours . |
| 4 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 5 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 6 | I had set my sights on getting a good position in training so that I would be sent to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 7 | 6 Later , in a more morbid vein , he confessed : " I suspected all along that there was little possibility that I would be forgiven for making known publicly that Stalin disgusted me , and that I could not stomach the Nazi-Soviet pact and the events in Finland . |
| 8 | Even allowing for the cost of the curtain tape and cotton required , I calculated that I would be overcharged by £80 . |
| 9 | Little did I know that I would be confronted with the loss of a loved one , my husband Norman , so soon and unexpectedly . |
| 10 | It , it depends on , on your individual circu , if your sister has a baby for you , she 's unlikely to say that I would be recompensed for my loss of earnings . |
| 11 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 12 | She smiled dazzlingly at the little reporter and hoped that she would be referred to as ‘ charming ’ . |
| 13 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 14 | She had received a note that morning while breakfasting at ‘ Mon Repos ’ from Sir Charles Webb-Bowen no less , telling her that she would be called upon to speak third in favour of the motion : ‘ That this Conference believes that better public and press relations would enable Government and Party to get its message across to the public more effectively . ’ |
| 15 | At the police station , she said , she was told first that she would be charged with assault and then that she would be charged with disorderly behaviour . |
| 16 | At the police station , she said , she was told first that she would be charged with assault and then that she would be charged with disorderly behaviour . |
| 17 | He prayed that she would be forgiven for being herself and following her nature . |
| 18 | In the company of and from the Key Street Office , I attended the funeral and an address given by a friend and neighbour paid a glowing tribute to recalling how much she enjoyed life and that she would be missed by her many friends . |
| 19 | She had arranged to meet Luke in the bar for a drink , and she hoped that he had a dinner engagement so that she would be left to her own devices afterwards . |
| 20 | ‘ She felt pressurised that she would be expected to be as career-orientated as she was before having the baby , ’ says Sandra , ‘ so she works with us because we are relaxed about it — if she does n't want to work on Wednesday , that 's fine , she can work on Friday instead . |
| 21 | France 's commitment of troops to the Indochina war brought fears that she would be outnumbered by German forces in the European theatre . |
| 22 | The Galiaras were told that she would be put on a plane at 3.30 pm . |
| 23 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 24 | McLeish , shaking his head , rang Catherine and broke it to her apologetically that she would be required for the afternoon . |
| 25 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 26 | Well so many of these songs have been done by so many people that you would be forgiven for thinking that , that . |
| 27 | That does n't mean that you would be engaged in the same boring work all the time . |
| 28 | This ‘ conventional ’ behaviour is described with scare quotes because it is not clear that one would be justified in reading into it the constellation of reciprocal beliefs and intentions that someone like Lewis takes as constitutive of conventional behaviour . |
| 29 | One had greater faith on the day that one would be assured of their support — and incidentally the negotiations with the banks were fairly difficult . |
| 30 | The possibility of a profit from the sale of one 's crime story is , however , so speculative that it is unrealistic to suppose that one would be deterred from committing a crime by the constructive trust statute . |