Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] would be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So each week we can plot our , our value where this is one , somewhere down here is nought and we would hope to er , eventually get to a situation where our planned performance was somewhere near one so we would be pardon ?
2 Perhaps there would be time to cook , to bathe …
3 Perhaps there would be guests to be welcomed — travellers , or merchants from the East who would display their wares of silk or gold or ivory , ’ said Oisin .
4 When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph .
5 Even if the re-sale value of your car is low , think how much it would be worth stripped down and sold for parts — the criminal has .
6 So it would be lenders who would gain from credit insurance ( and , in particular , from an efficient low-cost insurance scheme which would not seem to their customers to innate their credit payments unduly ) .
7 Now he was dead he was no longer Jack Monro but only Syl 's father , the dead husband of Mrs Monro , and soon I would be Margaret Monro .
8 Secure in their seniority , these Congressional ‘ barons ’ determined when and if committee meetings were held ; controlled the appearance of witnesses ; decided the speaking opportunities of their colleagues on the committee ; hired and fired committee staff ; decreed whether or not their would be sub-committees ; appointed sub-committee chairmen ; reported the deliberations of the committee to the full House and appointed committee representatives to conference committees .
9 Soon it would be night again , the question still unanswered .
10 Outside the house the birds were singing : soon it would be morning .
11 Soon it would be dawn .
12 Corbett realised that soon it would be Michaelmas and these were the Rogation Days when the priest blessed the soil and asked God 's help for the sowing and future harvest .
13 Soon it would be Michaelmas , then the feast of All Souls , a time to remember the dead .
14 As she stood barefoot on the cold boards , she comforted herself with the thought that soon it would be spring , daffodils would raise proud trumpets to nod in the soft breezes and in the fields beyond the town lambs would be born .
15 Soon it would be time for the ceremony to begin : for him to walk into the darkened woods and connect his mind to that of the Whale .
16 Hari took a deep breath and tasted the tang of salt in the air , soon it would be summer but she would be facing it alone .
17 Before the honourable gentleman goes any further it would be advantage really to get back to the boundaries Mr Graham G .
18 Like it would be D H S S today you see .
19 It began to be a test — the test — of whether he could still live with himself once the months ( but probably it would be years ) of imprisonment were over .
20 A few years later it would be Elizabeth 's brother Samuel who would step into the breach at a time of crisis , as we shall see , but in 1808 it was Thomas Hasted , as the newly-weds skirted round the northern edge of the Tower and established themselves just inside the parish of St Mary Whitechapel .
21 Additionally there would be questions relating to horticulture and agriculture in Britain covering a diversity of subjects , from seed selection to estate enterprise .
22 Inevitably there would be areas of the back glass left exposed , and I would use roofing slates to mask these to a height of 10in or more , to prevent flash reflections when taking photographs .
23 Inevitably there would be howls of protest but there are several valid responses to these .
24 Inevitably there would be variation along the frontiers , and , more important , Frankish control over neighbouring peoples , including the Thuringians , was not constant ; the hegemony exercised by the Merovingians to the east of the Rhine was an integral part of their empire .
25 And now it would be Mosley 's job to reconcile it all , to guide this 20th century sporting monster towards the next millennium .
26 ‘ Because he had not fully realized that suspicion would still follow him , and now it would be suspicion of murder .
27 Now it would be business .
28 Well there would be options other than the ability to make further provision around the the periphery of the city , between the urban area and the greenbelt .
29 Jack shook off his dream about Death Row and remembered that all over Dublin today there would be people waking to the first day of term .
30 A coal shortage cut the train services ( nowadays it would be staff shortage ) .
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