Example sentences of "would be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday . |
| 2 | He 'd ring once to make sure I was in and then he 'd be at the front door , would n't he ? ’ |
| 3 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 4 | That means … ’ she stared at the hedges , ‘ they 'd be on the other side of the hedge . |
| 5 | Well in Britain we decided we 'd be on the safe side , we 'll reduce that to a thousand we put another factor of ten in and what 's more i if one sheep in , in a whole flock is more than a thousand units , er then we will condemn the whole flock . |
| 6 | Well it 'd be for the this angle if you extended it so it 'd be eight divided by the three sixty is n't it ? |
| 7 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 8 | I mean it 'd be two thi forty we 'd be round the bloody bend ! |
| 9 | That they 'd be among the lucky ones . |
| 10 | It 'd be in the fifties . |
| 11 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 12 | On January 22nd Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve , suggested that it would be at the low end of that range largely because much of the equipment being used would not be replaced . |
| 13 | He remembered how pleased she would be at the mere thought of a visit . |
| 14 | They would be at the light barricade at the bottom of the dip in ten minutes . |
| 15 | because he would be at the top end of the other school |
| 16 | ‘ It is input twice , ’ admits Mr Johnson , ‘ in the sense that sales would be at the invoicing stage and then put into FDC at the total stage with the two systems running side by side . |
| 17 | fast , he would be at the public mortuary doing the post-mortem . |
| 18 | ‘ It is possible an EC directive would be at the same level or just below UK standards . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If the Certificate of Primary Education tested material which was firmly within the grasp of primary school teachers : if it tested the ability to re–son and understand relationships of cause and effect ; and , if , above all , it tested relevant and practical knowledge , it would be at the same time both a more efficient and equitable instrument for selecting secondary school entrants and also a more useful preparation for those for whom primary education is terminal . |
| 20 | If the data produces an exactly balanced tree , then this optimal point would be at the same level across all branches ( Sussenguth , 1963 ) , but this is not so with a lexicon , so the construction is much more difficult . |
| 21 | Otherwise , it would by now have degenerated into a state of complete disorder , in which everything would be at the same temperature . |
| 22 | He would be at the next meeting in the church hall along with Swire Sugden , and were they in for a surprise ! |
| 23 | Reimbursement for all these sales would be at the commercial rouble exchange rate set in October . |
| 24 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 25 | Who 'd be on the , who would be on the bloody council with any real bloody business initiative |
| 26 | Flanagan , the distant fishmonger , had sworn it would be on the early train from Waterford . |
| 27 | But that this would no longer be a primary route that status would be on the new road . |
| 28 | He said almost half of Darlington 's homes would be on the lowest band and 60pc will be on the bottom two bands when the council tax is introduced . |
| 29 | They erm there 's , there 's less , there 's less a feeling of community in there than there would be on the average street . |
| 30 | All their concentration would be on the great white wall of crashing surf ahead . |