Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] would be [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 Soon it would be night again , the question still unanswered .
5 Outside the house the birds were singing : soon it would be morning .
6 Soon it would be dawn .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Before the honourable gentleman goes any further it would be advantage really to get back to the boundaries Mr Graham G .
11 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 .
12 ‘ Because he had not fully realized that suspicion would still follow him , and now it would be suspicion of murder .
13 Now it would be business .
14 Wherever blame might lie as regards the situation with the South Wales constabulary at the present time , surely it would be madness to merge Gwent police force with the South Wales police force at this unfortunate time because Gwent has a very , very good record and we want it to stay like that .
15 At least she would be sale with Lovat and the knowledge gave him some comfort .
16 The meeting should only set broad parameters for the worker , then there would be scope for genuine negotiation , with the parent 's real agreement .
17 If both conditions have been satisfied , then there would be cover for the contents belonging to both partners , subject to the adequacy of the sums insured .
18 In Couldery v. Bartrum ( 1881 ) 19 Ch.D. 394 at 400 , Jessel M.R. , discussing the rule in Pinnel 's Case and compositions with creditors , said ’ … as every debtor had not a stock of canary birds , or tomtits , or rubbish of that kind , to add to his dividend , it was felt desirable to bind the creditors in a sensible way by saying that , if they all agreed , there should be a consideration imported from the agreement constituting an addition to the dividend , so as to make the agreement no longer nudum pactum , but an agreement made for valuable consideration , then there would be satisfaction .
19 Then there would be silence , but from time to time I should receive a ‘ chit ’ from regimental HQ to say that all was well .
20 They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again .
21 One could n't just get a campaign up and running overnight — although the recession bit both ways , so at least there would be space available in the media for short-term bookings .
22 So , it 's not chickenfeed when you start to er , or maybe it would be chickenfeed
23 I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning !
24 Of course , it is possible to imagine evil-minded dictators abusing it to produce nightmares , but if it could be used to enhance our resistance to disease , or the survival of humanity depended on it , then it would be time to think again .
25 If I had to pick one of the midfielders to go there it would be Speed … but I think we would then lose something going forward .
26 The young black people of Britain who are into black consciousness and cultural awareness are keen to speak Afro-Lingua because it reinforces their awareness and gives them hope where otherwise there would be despair " ( 1986a : 44 – 5 ) .
27 If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability .
28 The Shah seemed very pleased attitude was changing previously they had urged him to be a purely constitutional monarch ; now perhaps they wanted him to involve himself more in Iranian politics , He thought he must do that — otherwise there would be confusion and chaos .
29 Cos otherwise it would be marmit .
30 and erm something which this court er presumably now does n't have any jurisdiction to do otherwise it would be breach of article five
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