Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of future events it is important to note the absence of detail on agriculture , even though this had been designated a special economic activity which would be handled completely at the supranational level . |
| 2 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 3 | The additional contributions would be channelled back to the lending institutions by the Department of Social Security . |
| 4 | ‘ She asked me how I was and when I would be moving in to the cottage . ’ |
| 5 | Under the various agreements , Ilo would be developed jointly as a free zone with full industrial and commercial facilities , with Peru allowing free access to Bolivian goods along a route leading to Ilo from the Bolivian border town of Desaguadero . |
| 6 | Shoes would be kicked off beneath the desks and lie untidily askew . |
| 7 | Whereupon he would be enrolled forthwith in the Tenth Company , of tyro Marines . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In nineteen forty two The Lady proudly announced that the president of the Board of Trade had cut his large bath towels in half and he hoped his sacrifice would be repeated all over the country . |
| 10 | Eliot recognized that this was not simply the last poem in his sequence but also its culmination , in which the themes and textures of the preceding three parts would be gathered together in a final statement . |
| 11 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 14 | I would be employed also by the WEA and as a Trade Union lecturer ( which , as far as I know , I still am ) . |
| 15 | In between arriving and leaving for Castelnaudary , most people would be weeded out by the tests or fall short of the required standards . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They would be based increasingly on the operating lease and take the form of instruments focused on the capital markets . |
| 18 | A White Paper on defence released on May 21 , 1991 , suggested that future defence considerations would be based less on the South Pacific , as had been the case over the last six years , and more on New Zealand taking an active part in global security matters . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These would be pushed away by the radiation from the Sun , taking with them any payload attached to them . |
| 21 | The boring old unions would be pushed out by a new Rainbow Alliance of media-wise radicals , alert and campaigning on the big issues of racial and sexual discrimination , nuclear power , and protecting the environment . |
| 22 | Therefore , a second reading would be pushed further to the right side of the network , requiring less reader effort ( cI ) . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 25 | The lesson of the factory siren would be heard too in the sciences , leading to the horrible clockwork universe of Laplace and his successors . |
| 26 | Pig bins were provided in each road in urban areas for household waste and these would be collected usually by a pig woman with a horse and cart . |
| 27 | A BS spokesman said he could see no possible solution to the problem at this stage but the issue would be examined closely over the next six months . |
| 28 | The UK had maintained that rates should be left for the market to decide , and had demanded the indefinite maintenance of discretionary zero rating for sensitive items ( the Commission 's position being that zero rating would be tolerated only for a limited period ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the case of the Watford and Foxton Locks , the line of ascent would be longer than in the sample , say , by only 1 min. and 4 minutes respectively : and the cost of the works would be increased only by the cost of increased lengths of slopes or inclines ; that is — 24 feet and 100 feet respectively . |