Example sentences of "[noun prp] would be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Richard would be kept busy with his learning for some considerable time yet , Cissie would not be ready to come home until tea-time , and David had warned her that it would be late when he and his ‘ father ’ returned , especially as Luther had expressed a desire to ‘ celebrate afterwards ’ . |
| 2 | David did not in fact begin to relax his reserve until nearly a week after the telegram had arrived , when Julia judged it a suitable moment to say that she and Anthony would be making other plans for Easter . |
| 3 | Under Italy 's immigration laws refugees still unemployed by the end of July would be declared illegal immigrants and subject to deportation back to Albania . |
| 4 | President George Bush announced immediately that using prisoners as shields was a war crime , for which Saddam Hussein would be held accountable . |
| 5 | Asked if Saddam Hussein would be held accountable for the treatment of the men , Bush replied : " You can count on it . " |
| 6 | Marshal Terauchi , Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Region , dismissed this claim ( 17 July ) though he agreed that the former Netherlands Indies would be given Japanese-style independence . |
| 7 | In China would be considered rhematic in both formulations ( unless stress is used to signal a difference in its thematic/rhematic status ) . |
| 8 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 9 | Peking had warned that ‘ Hong Kong would be held responsible for all consequences of the ( Yang Yang ) affair ’ by allowing the swimmer , a supporter of the student-led democracy movement , to seek asylum in America . |
| 10 | Air Staff 's confidence lay the belief that Sandys would be proved wrong by events and that the days of manned aircraft were still far from over . |
| 11 | Switching to a music channel , Margaret wondered how Jack would be feeling right now . |
| 12 | In addition , the Palacio de Velazquez would be made available to the Prado on a temporary basis . |
| 13 | Then , paradoxically , the US-Soviet treaty of 1987 which removed intermediate nuclear weapons from Europe also led to renewed worries that Germany would be left undefended by America if war did break out . |
| 14 | Another option to bring more gas into Italy would be to import Algerian gas above the 12 billion cubic metres ( bcm ) per year which is the capacity of the present pipeline . |
| 15 | Even without these dramas in the Gulf and the Soviet Union , America would be facing big economic risks in 1991 . |
| 16 | Under the proposal , strongly supported by environmental groups and a number of other delegations , notably the UK , the Antarctic would be declared off-limits to whalers , even if the IWC approved a return to commercial hunting . |
| 17 | Albert had said Mr Evans would be flaming mad when he heard about Mrs Gotobed 's Will and it seemed Albert was right . |