Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more . |
| 2 | ‘ Although the fine is severe , we were all hoping he 'd be kicked out of the club by the League . |
| 3 | Carshes did n't like tractors , them big frightening things , you know , did n't like tractors , and erm I 'd be called out in the field then |
| 4 | I 'd be able to get on the horse but I 'd be ruled out of the Olympics because betablockers are banned . |
| 5 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 6 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | The additional contributions would be channelled back to the lending institutions by the Department of Social Security . |
| 8 | Shoes would be kicked off beneath the desks and lie untidily askew . |
| 9 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 10 | joint local authority/private sector schemes — ownership and ultimate responsibility would lie within the public sector but the day-to-day running of the service would be contracted out to the private sector through competitive tendering . |
| 11 | In between arriving and leaving for Castelnaudary , most people would be weeded out by the tests or fall short of the required standards . |
| 12 | By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier . |
| 13 | Tha that would mean that all pensioners who are drawing the pension from pension funds would be penalised back to the date that you 're talking about . |
| 14 | Norma Thomson , secretary of New Deer Community Association , said : ‘ Perhaps whoever did the break-in knew there would n't be a policeman going back and forth and that he would be tied up at the meeting . ’ |
| 15 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 16 | It was agreed to tighten the Protocol so that CFC production and consumption would be phased out by the year 2000 , and that halon and ‘ other ozone depleting substances ’ should be phased out as soon as feasible . |
| 17 | Before the start of the conference , the UK Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , announced that industrial dumping would be phased out in the UK by 1992 , except in the case of ICI and Sterling Organics ( responsible for 78 per cent of all industrial waste dumped in the North Sea ) which would be licensed to dump until 1993 . |
| 18 | The remote would be blasted out of the sky in less than a fiftieth of a second . ’ |
| 19 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 20 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 21 | Some of the heavier elements produced near the end of the star 's life would be flung back into the gas in the galaxy , and would provide some of the raw material for the next generation of stars . |
| 22 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 23 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 24 | Last week the Northern Regional Health Authority announced that 221 mentally handicapped people would be moved out of the hospital over the next three years . |
| 25 | Those rounded up in this way would be detained along with the captive patrol in the ‘ prison ’ rig . |
| 26 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 27 | However , he said the defendant did not make any admissions and that those two interviews would be assessed along with the four interviews the previous day . |
| 28 | Hundreds of workers marched on Westminster earlier this year , fearing that come privatisation , the millions in the BR pension fund would be creamed off by the new rail franchise companies . |
| 29 | Receipts from the sale of the licences would be ploughed back into the provision of improved public transport . |
| 30 | So even if he believed that from an economic point of view the best decision would be to deny any recovery for emotional injury , he would still ask whether the role of law in encouraging reliance and coordination would be much damaged if he ignored the precedents , and , if it would , whether this loss would be made up in the gains he foresees from the change . |