Example sentences of "[pron] would be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 3 | If I , the child groupie , was noticed — and I tried to make myself invisible — I would be treated in kindly enough fashion , but as something of a curiosity . |
| 4 | It was no place to row ashore , or I would be killed on the rocks . |
| 5 | Tomorrow I would be consumed with guilt . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I would be shot before dawn . |
| 8 | Because of that it was inevitable that sooner or later I would be delegated by Steve and Paul to fence some of the gear they 'd purloined . |
| 9 | I would be fed into the police computer , where it would join the details already stored by the hundreds of other crossings we had made . |
| 10 | Whether I would be justified in couching this political criticism in terms of cognitive deprivation — that he lacks ‘ cognitive flexibility ’ or ‘ can not distinguish between his own thought about something ( e.g. capitalism ) and the thing itself ( Greenfield , p. 173 ) — seems to me doubtful . |
| 11 | The case really turned on section 78 , as to which the judge had said ‘ whilst accepting the impressive evidence of the doctor , I do not think I would be justified in excluding this confession , ’ adding ‘ I do not think that section 78 really is aimed at , in truth , the circumstances here appertaining . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I love them , I would be lost without them . |
| 14 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 15 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 16 | Even allowing for the cost of the curtain tape and cotton required , I calculated that I would be overcharged by £80 . |
| 17 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 18 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 19 | ( In later years , adult years , while sitting in London stuffed with wholemeal digestives soaked in tea , I would be filled with the wheat and candour of this smell , and I would hold the digestive as long as I could in my mouth , as if aiming to grasp its exact ingredient and texture , to become its body and its recipe ) . |
| 20 | There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives . |
| 21 | I asked him not to say any more to me , since at that time I represented the Labour Party and felt it quite possible that if he brought any action I would be called upon to act for them . |
| 22 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 23 | Her emotional journey is that of many women artists : ‘ I would be faced with the enormous problem of re-inventing myself ! ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then I would be accused of being a racist , take this for example , I was down at lower school , I had a black girl in my class , she did something or another . |
| 26 | I thought if I wrapped myself up in chickenwire and cut myself out again I would be left with a realistic shape . |
| 27 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 28 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |
| 29 | Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved . |
| 30 | I was told I could n't , but I knew if I did n't obey the order I would be put on report and would see the governor anyway . |