Example sentences of "and [det] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never lie still enough … not even to file it , and that 'ud be a long business . ’ |
| 2 | With that final remark he would go into a huff and that would be the end of the conversation . |
| 3 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |
| 4 | It would only mean he might let her down again , and that would be asking for it . |
| 5 | And that would be depressing , to say the least . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There could only be one winner , and that would be The Doc , ’ Nichol has said . |
| 7 | I may lose them and that would be terrible ! |
| 8 | They were due to finish unloading the ‘ Marit ’ by about eleven o'clock and that would be it until Monday morning . |
| 9 | ‘ And that would be quicker than starving them ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And that would be in very poor taste . |
| 11 | There 's one small improvement that Lowden could easily make to the LSE , and that would be to have a strap-button at the heel as a standard feature . |
| 12 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 13 | The registrar was waiting down the corridor with the tools of his trade , an exercise book and a fountain pen , and that would be that . |
| 14 | I might be replaced by an old-fashioned advocate of Latinate grammar , and that would be a disaster for the schools . |
| 15 | And that would be one more bar we could n't go back to . |
| 16 | My fantasies were never about specific sexual activities , they were always on the level of some emotional transcendence — someone would come along and embrace me and that would be it ; I could n't really envisage what the nitty gritty practical things were . |
| 17 | I would hang them all round the school and you 'd all get stuck to them and that would be the end of it . |
| 18 | And that would be a criminal waste . |
| 19 | ‘ And that would be the least of your problems . ’ |
| 20 | there 's all sorts like , like recruiting , making contact with the schools , er , lobbying , er , there , there about ten or twelve different workshops now , almost on almost every aspects , so and that would be something that we could give , if , if these were n't . |
| 21 | erm and you know and that would be their kind of bible get one with a lock on |
| 22 | you see and that would be |
| 23 | And that would be a s severe limitation if you 're gon na have , you know , hundred , hundred and , hundred to hundred and fifty people in here from ten to four I would |
| 24 | For example if you went to Nepal , one of your motivations for going there might be to meditate or relax and that would be a cognition . |
| 25 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 26 | And that would be calculated as the total amount dissolved in the ocean divided by its rate either of addition or removal so if we 're assuming steady state the two will be the same , whichever is easiest to ma measure and that would normally be expressed in years |
| 27 | Perhaps Adam would come back tomorrow , and tell her Jake was safe , and that would be the end of it . |
| 28 | And that would be all she 'd need to hear . |
| 29 | And that would be that : thousands of years of generation succeeding generation , unable to learn from the experience of the past and dying too soon to benefit from the present . |
| 30 | Without people like him we would n't have a PFK magazine and that would be about as bad as never having heard of fish at all ! |