Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] they [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement from the club confirmed they would be staying in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | He sometimes thought it would be pleasant to lie in bed with his wife on Sunday mornings , now that there were no children to interrupt them , but Donna reckoned they should be through with all that kind of stupidity , so he was resigned to the sporadic consolation of his Métis up north . |
| 3 | In fact , our research showed they would be quite surprising to customers and non-customers alike . |
| 4 | If anyone would like their entries returned they can be collected from the Publicity Office ( Room 066 , Building A32 ) from Monday , 1 March . |
| 5 | The paternalistic Tillers knew they would be at risk so William was taken on to carry out these arrangements . |
| 6 | Earlier this year fans said they would be keen to see Joanna Lumley in the title role . |
| 7 | Four of the six schools said they would be prepared to take positive steps towards ‘ searching them out ’ . |
| 8 | For NL members shooting the Jews was the favoured solution , although on one occasion Wright suggested they should be destroyed painlessly and Chesterton wanted them strung up on lamp-posts . |
| 9 | The police claimed the records were n't relevant to the case , but the judge ruled they should be disclosed . |
| 10 | But her husband applied to the courts to have the children returned and in April this year a High Court judge ruled they should be sent back to him in South Dakota . |
| 11 | The men who were acquitted , Danial Winter , who 's 19 , and Wisdom Smith , who 's also 19 , had nothing to say after the judge directed they should be found not guilty . |
| 12 | So when Ray Neal of Thringstone Aquatics had some Victorian Cichlids for sale Nancy decided they might be the answer . |
| 13 | City are believed to owe tens of thousands of pounds in VAT but the club 's chairman Martin Fish insisted they will be able meet the debts without outside help . |
| 14 | It seemed that people were often worse than even Jane thought they could be . |
| 15 | If the proposals leaked they would be dynamite inside the health service , and yet they had come round with only the routine ‘ confidential ’ security classification . |
| 16 | WALES rugby league coach Clive Griffiths yesterday received a double dose of good news when Ian Marlow and Allan Bateman announced they should be fit to face France on Sunday . |
| 17 | Though inspectors have no enforcement powers , Wing believed they should be free to point out difficult areas of practice . |
| 18 | Social workers decided they would be safe with their 23-year-old unmarried mother . |
| 19 | Dealers felt they could be choosy , passing several highly touted lots , including a Louis XIV Boulle marquetry writing table ( which some believed to have been extensively altered ) , unsold at $325,000 ( est. $400–600,000 ) and a set of four Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry cabinets ( est. $400–600,000 ) which failed at $250,000 . |
| 20 | He insisted he had not abdicated , but what should he do know ? *q Before any advice could given , at least by the British the Shah and Soraya flew on to Rome — perhaps because King Faisal was embarrassed by his presence in Baghdad and perhaps because the Shah thought they would be sager and more comfortable in the Italian capital . |
| 21 | She had always sensed the goodness in Sarah Byrne and for Paddy 's sake wished they could be friends . |
| 22 | Some editors believed they would be better off if they refused to take advantage of the new rules and continued to let the censor see their material in manuscript . |
| 23 | Granada Television confirmed last night confirmed they will be covering the match on Wednesday for Tyne Tees Television . |
| 24 | Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows . |
| 25 | Six months ago Teresa Leinin had to put them on a plane to the United States after the High Court ordered they must be sent back to their American father . |
| 26 | At this , Golding decided they should be driven back to Swans ' Meadow , accompanied by Finch and a lugubrious detective sergeant called Barrett . |
| 27 | They were of brown calf with a copper beech leaf on the instep and their shape was so strange and outlandish that Nurse Rose decided they must be the extreme of fashion . |
| 28 | Draper insisted they should be retained . |
| 29 | It was encouraging news , but the second session drew to a close with the vexed issues of religious freedom and the Jews , which were dealt with in the final two chapters of the document on ecumenism , still undecided — though Cardinal Bea insisted they would be discussed in due course . |
| 30 | A BRITISH Airways crew feared they would be sucked out of the cockpit when the windscreen shattered at 33,000ft yesterday . |