Example sentences of "and [pron] would be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she married Pogo , she could do exactly as she pleased and she would be mistress of her own home . |
| 2 | At the annual meeting in March Mr Saatchi warned that profits would fall this year ( although nobody expected they would fall nearly as much as they have done ) and there would be disposals . |
| 3 | I should also be under continuing pressure to say that a Committee was considering a particular subject ( and often it would be a GEN group ) ; and there would be questions about when Committees were meeting , the work they were doing , whether particular Ministers are on them , the details of under-pinning Official Committees , etc . |
| 4 | And there would be London Burning bashing away and she 'd be and I 'd go in and I 'd turn it off and then then then you know and she 'd say |
| 5 | Archibald School in Barnaby Avenue had room for 170 children but staff and governors argued toilet facilities were insufficient and there would be problems at playtimes . |
| 6 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 7 | We would eat and drink and there would be entertainments and music and dancing and stories . |
| 8 | One would deal with the three London Partnerships , and there would be others established in Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester — Salford and Newcastle — Gateshead . |
| 9 | And there would be bills for electricity and water . |
| 10 | He had fought the intruder and there would be samples on his knuckles and in his fingernails of his aggressor 's skin and blood . |
| 11 | Policy would focus on economic efficiency , there would be explicit rules and guidelines ( including exemptions from the rules ) , there would be a relatively unified set of competition-policy institutions ( a strengthened OFT , and a reformed MMC to act as a tribunal to review the analysis and proposals for fines or remedies made by the OFT ) , and there would be penalties for abuses . |
| 12 | There could be sabre-toothed prairie dogs , mice the size of foxes , and new species such as the ‘ gigantelope ’ , and there would be killer baboons . |
| 13 | Electricity supplies would be fixed and there would be cuts in supply if limits were exceeded . |
| 14 | Removing caravans would make people homeless and there would be menageries of animals needing food and shelter . |
| 15 | They had plenty of berries and there would be jobs ready and waiting for them . |
| 16 | So if for instance you 're quite well off and you have two hundred thousand pounds in your own estate that you want to leave , if you make it all to the children there would be an exemption of the first hundred and fifty thousand pounds and there would be tax payable on the fifty thousand . |
| 17 | The initially modest programme would then be supported by a variety of group other Congressmen and pressure groups — and there would be pressures for expansion of the programme : a ‘ spiral effect ’ . |
| 18 | There would be time now to see Mr. Fynney , the chief debenture holder on the line , and take his opinion , which I believe has not been given on the position but he , unfortunately , a short time ago lost his brother , and could not attend to business , and there would be time now to obtain the consideration of the promoters of the points above named , before the bill passes the House of Lords . |
| 19 | In some cases , you might even find a list of the apostles — and there would be Matthew . |
| 20 | Pay would almost certainly rise and there would be redundancies on a significant and unacceptable scale . |
| 21 | A breath on the flames , and there would be fire from end to end of the march ; and the Prince was in urgent but still friendly correspondence with King Henry in the effort to settle the dissensions peacefully and without affront to either Welsh or English honour . |
| 22 | Gas , electricity and telephone charges were to be reduced and there would be restriction on increases in school fees , fares and food prices . |
| 23 | A significant night , at least in journalistic terms , and there would be journalists here this evening , no doubt comparing their analyses of the bygone seventies , their predictions for the 1980s . |
| 24 | The building would be built of stone and there would be niches in the outside walls to be filled with statues of dissenting saints like Cromwell . |
| 25 | It would be about Scotland , ( or India , or an ‘ Erewhon ? ? ? ’ ) and the Working Class and Exploitation and Action , and there would be characters in the work who would represent all of these things , and the working out of the story would itself prove the Subjectivity of Truth . |
| 26 | Erm as I digest Mr 's comments and the various implications erm of the things that he said , it 's more and more confirming for me that perhaps we may well be right in the step by step measured approach because quite clearly erm I suspect that if we run at this stage a preferred location , erm I suspect that the the opposition to that and there would be opposition to it , may well have may well prejudice the principle er of the new settlement . |
| 27 | And th th and they would be police ones if they 'd got blue lights and |
| 28 | Another minute and he would be broadside to the swell . |
| 29 | Modulations can therefore follow various routes , and it would be folly to recommend any particular pattern . |
| 30 | The twins were fast asleep , and it would be hours before John and Laura returned . |