Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] would be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To disturb them after all the work that has been done would be a disaster . ’ |
| 2 | A pledge on which a loan of more than ten shillings had been made would be put up for auction , but its owner could come and redeem it on any day up to that of the sale . |
| 3 | He 'd arrived just after Vespers to collect the message he had been told would be waiting for him . |
| 4 | From the east , forces under Soviet command had taken Vienna on 13 April and troops of the Third Ukrainian Front under Marshal Tolbukhin were advancing into the eastern part of what it had been agreed would be the British Zone of Austria . |
| 5 | However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers . |
| 6 | ‘ If a person presenting or directing the performance is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred , it is a defence for him to prove — ( a ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour , or ( b ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the offending words or behaviour were threatening , abusive or insulting , or ( c ) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the circumstances in which the performance would be given would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up . ’ |
| 7 | The second major issue to be examined would be the role of individuals and how human potential is mobilised . |
| 8 | No one expects the editors to commit themselves before receiving a submitted paper , but some indication of the degree of pleasure with which a resubmission would be received would be welcome . |
| 9 | The first to be consulted would be the National Portrait Gallery 's list of contemporary portraitists , an archive kept by director Robin Gibson , who has files and picture references on as many current painters as possible . |
| 10 | Among the issues to be addressed would be : |
| 11 | At no time is restraint to be used as a punitive measure , or in situations where the crimes that could be committed would be minor , such as shoplifting . |
| 12 | To review the position before this judgment can be made would be far from helpful . |
| 13 | County councillor Ray Flowers ( Lab ) said yesterday that whatever needed to be done would be done to make sure the bus service continues , but not at the expense of safety . |
| 14 | In the event of Conservative defeat , one of the great questions never to be answered would be whether a decision to postpone full-scale implementation of the various forms of opting-out , in favour of local experiments , might have saved them . |
| 15 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 16 | The yield in younger patients is likely to be very low and the development of alternative strategies to select those in whom a barium enema or total colonoscopy should be performed would be helpful . |
| 17 | All that could be agreed would be to loan trained men for a specific operation . |
| 18 | The most that could be offered would be autonomous areas within regional self-government ‘ towards which members of the respective nationalities , scattered all over the country or even all over the world , would gravitate and with which they could enter into relations and free associations ’ — some measure of accommodation to Bauerism . |
| 19 | The only way in which such communication could be measured would be by questionnaire . |
| 20 | In such circumstances , all that would be protected would be the employer 's " lead time " , the advantage of getting his product to the market place first . |
| 21 | One way in which some at least of the problems might be reduced would be if the technology concerned were not promoted and managed by a national agency ( eg the CEGB or electricity board ) but rather by the local authority . |
| 22 | If she was , then the administration of a caution which presupposed that an answer could not be compelled would be a self-contradictory formality which Parliament can not possibly have intended . |
| 23 | The only way that the gold backing of the dollar could be increased would be by an increase in the price of gold . |
| 24 | Other things to be observed would be the patient 's appearance , presence or absence of heat and sweat in different areas of the body , his behaviour and mood , what he wants in his surroundings and environment , does he want to be still or moving , if he moves why does he move , does he want fresh air or to be covered , or both , or neither , and so on ! |
| 25 | The ends to which they might properly be put would be severely limited by these considerations . |
| 26 | Those who were to be sacrificed would be driven into the labyrinth and locked in . |
| 27 | Yeah but but the thing is that well , they most probably could do but could do some but what what 'd be sacrificed would be the management skills , y you know , and then |
| 28 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 29 | Eventually , the star would be so dim that it could no longer be seen from the spaceship : all that would be left would be a black hole in space . |
| 30 | The details of how such intentions could be realized would be left to local joint planning and financing at the district level : ‘ any proposal to move the balance of care from hospital to community should come from the local level ’ . |