Example sentences of "would [be] found " in BNC.

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1 How early Pound came by this perception is not clear , but certainly he had no illusions from the first that his Cantos , building as they did on the rhythmical and thematic procedures of Homage to Sextus Propertius , would be found readily acceptable .
2 She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket .
3 The first assumption originated in the fact that because Morgan had made a special study of the Iroquois , where the status of women is comparatively high , he assumed uncritically that this high status would be found among other people at a similar level of technological advancement .
4 Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own .
5 But substitutes for parts of the saint 's body would be found no less efficacious in guaranteeing his or her presence .
6 Instead , a now very fat Halima would be found at all times of day , demanding oats , by standing deep in the fence with wires right up to her armpits !
7 There were fewer dogs than would be found at a Romany camp , and no poultry at all .
8 From time immemorial it was a commonly held belief in Gaelic Scotland that where a disease occurred there would be found growing in the locality of its prevalence a plant which would cure that disease .
9 This is a doubtful speculation as spinning , unlike sewing or embroidery does not require a strong light , and it is much more likely that the spinners would be found in comfort spinning by the light of their peat fires as dusk approached .
10 If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast .
11 And in a fortnight or three weeks time they too would be found with the inquisitive crowd on the inside of the gate staring at the prisoners who had just arrived .
12 In 1916 , H. A. L. Fisher , the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University , was appointed President of the Board of Education , with the promise that ‘ money would be found for ambitious educational measures ’ .
13 They point out how similar differences would be found in an analysis of Conservative and Alliance results in the 1982 local elections .
14 Corrosion and metal attrition were little more than would be found in a five-or-ten year-old ship .
15 It was suggested that the children , by now thoroughly scared by their experiences , might quite simply make their way back to Ridgery Butts and if that were so would be found moving openly along the rides .
16 the wandering lost sheep would be found .
17 If the Tories were to form the next government then Chris Patten would be found a seat , if necessary .
18 In the event , few attempts at car restraint were made because it was assumed that the money would be found for reconstruction , but in the crisis-ridden post-1960s British economy , available funds never approached the levels needed for a widespread application of environmental area principles .
19 The fairy would then fly up the chimney and the human baby would be found at the door .
20 In European countries virtue would be found to linger in remote and rural communities .
21 The intermediary would then send a boy or servant with the cattle owner to ‘ search ’ for the missing animal , which would be found tied to a tree in a nearby forest .
22 His widow Sheila said last night she had hoped and prayed her missing husband would be found alive .
23 For two sleepless nights , rugby player and fitness fanatic Brian lived with the fear that Joanna 's lifeless body would be found and he would be charged with murder .
24 A special place of honour would be found for books having some close connection with an important event in history and perhaps even helped to shape it .
25 Surely something in the way of work would be found tomorrow .
26 Eventually , they supposed , some means would be found of paying the wretched girl off , when Philip came to his senses .
27 He hoped that the camera would be found and returned to his wife Tamara , 30 .
28 Resentful souls on Earth , tethered there by obligation or obstinacy , muttered that Capella knew from the first what would be found on Mars and why .
29 A great mound close to him , but the daily norm that was so precious to the administration of the camp would be found wanting that day .
30 If the performance were costed , the assumption that the retirement pension is not earned but an unreciprocated gift from the employed to the non-employed would be found to be untenable .
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