Example sentences of "[det] would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long this would continue was in doubt as economic pressures increased . |
| 2 | This would have been in keeping with the likely pattern of Bernician-Dalriadic relations . |
| 3 | This would have been after a rehearsal of the local schools orchestra , some time early in that last year of his life . |
| 4 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 5 | 6d. and many would have been under the average . |
| 6 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 7 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 8 | Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police . |
| 9 | It might well be that upon their selection the Roman Catholics were appraised of the atmosphere in England and advised not to be too obvious in their worship , galling though that would have been to those proud and independent men . |
| 10 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 11 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 12 | That would have been in March 1952 . |
| 13 | On the majority view the defendant was actually left free to work for a subsidiary of GUS which was not involved in the mail order business in the United Kingdom even though that would have been in clear breach of the restriction . |
| 14 | I was given to believe that would have been in the flat also we thought that st was going to be in there possibly a wife and it was n't said whether there were any children . |
| 15 | Well that would have been in erm oh tut |
| 16 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 17 | Few voters could have obtained a real grasp of the issues at stake and hardly any would have been in a position to assess the leadership qualities of the candidates on offer . |
| 18 | In normal times , Selborne and Steel-Maitland would have been tolerated and both would have been at least partially silenced by the restraint of office . |