Example sentences of "would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would been better for him to keep kwiet . |
| 2 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 3 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 4 | I know the unemployment figures may be higher and all this business , but erm I mean er a single person during those days , er say a young man in his teens , working would been s stopped in the quarry . |
| 5 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 6 | And then they went up to the village and it the first one would been 's , 's and and 's . |
| 7 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 8 | Aye it would been about maybe nineteen seventeen or nineteen eighteen . |
| 9 | But it would been hot stuff you see to begin with . |
| 10 | Yes he would mind it he would been he was in it . |
| 11 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 12 | Letters would be welcome . |
| 13 | Letters to the Editor Letters would be welcome . |
| 14 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the covenant then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your covenant payment . |
| 15 | In the above example the gross amount of the gift was £1,000 , so the donor would have to certify that he would be paying tax of at least £250 . |
| 16 | In this way your gift to ACET will qualify for Gift Aid relief even though the monthly payments would be too small to do so . |
| 17 | Care would be needed with the wording used in any such scheme and ACET can give you more details about this . |
| 18 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the payment then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your Gift Aid payment . |
| 19 | The authorities promised early elections , and said the former president and others arrested would be brought to trial . |
| 20 | The government subsequently announced to the press that ‘ a research visit to Sri Lanka would be considered favourably if a formal request were made ’ by AI . |
| 21 | AI stated that it strongly feared that the refugee population would be at risk of certain torture , ‘ disappearance ’ or execution if returned to Iraqi Government control . |
| 22 | If you have served in the armed forces and would be willing to assist in the work of this group , or if you can assist with contacts in ex-service organisations like the British Star Association , please write to : . |
| 23 | The government subsequently announced that ‘ a research visit to Sri Lanka would be considered favourably if a formal request were made ’ . |
| 24 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 25 | It would be too crude a generalisation , though , to say that critics are concerned with form , while historians are interested in the context of art ; both the forms and contexts of art are common ground for the critic and the historian . |
| 26 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 27 | Not every city would be suited to this approach , it must be admitted . |
| 28 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
| 29 | Sculpture parks are an enjoyable innovation of the late twentieth century , or perhaps it would be better to say a welcome adaptation of an existing practice . |
| 30 | One story about his teaching is that a new student would be told to observe a fish in a tank . |