Example sentences of "he would be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he left court he said only that he would be seeking legal advice on a compensation claim . |
| 2 | But said he would be seeking legal advice over the original ban . |
| 3 | Mr Stacey was notified in February 1984 that he would be made redundant the following May . |
| 4 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 5 | Once his leg healed , Lucien quickly found that he would be kept busy . |
| 6 | By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP . |
| 7 | It was also arranged that he would be given accurate intelligence by radio on a regular basis . |
| 8 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
| 9 | Later on the same page he makes this challenging statement ‘ If any of us actually had the power to release souls from purgatory and refused to exercise that power except in return for a payment of money he would be considered cruel and unchristian — which indeed he would be . ’ |
| 10 | He would be craving hot coffee and food . |
| 11 | All right , there had been two of them involved and it was unfair , but he would be feeling tricked … and trapped . |
| 12 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 13 | Perhaps they were wrong ; perhaps the spoke of the wheel on which he was clinging would never be swung over so hard by Lady Fortune that he would be prised loose and fall , limbs sprawling , like the figures on the rose window of the cathedral , while others — Tommaso , where was Tommaso now ? — rose up to be garlanded at chance 's whim . |
| 14 | One of the most truculent of his critics , the super-hawkish Mr Ariel Sharon , said yesterday that he would be consulting like-minded colleagues about what he called ‘ the dangerous deterioration in the political situation ’ . |
| 15 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 16 | Previous abuses led Mr Lamont to announce last year that he would be ending new schemes from December 1993 . |
| 17 | He also warned that he would be requesting special powers for the Cabinet in order more speedily to implement economic measures , including privatizations , because , he said , state finances were in " a dire condition " . |