Example sentences of "they would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the corporation says that 5000 jobs could be created by the scheme , although few of them would be at the airport itself . |
| 2 | Well I kept well I I got on alright with him cos he I were a lot younger and he used to give me sixpence to go and get some ice cream so as I them would be on their own a bit you see . |
| 3 | Such large nests and so many of them would be in the way on the earth . |
| 4 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 5 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 6 | Instead he had to contend with the usual difficulty of those with rights in personam : if the trustee was insolvent , they would be worth little . |
| 7 | They would be worth one-fifth of residents ' pay and cover half the value of the goods . |
| 8 | They would be worth thousands ! |
| 9 | Thereafter they would be into the East March , and following the enemy would be less straightforward , with the country opening out and various routes possible — into the Merse , down the Scots side of Tweed , down the English side , or southwards into the Till valley of Northumberland . |
| 10 | It follows that the British courts are under a statutory obligation to apply to Community legal texts the Community methods of interpretation as developed by the European Court ; they would be under Community law even without the statutory provision . |
| 11 | In all fairness , they would be under a great deal of pressure . |
| 12 | If they were genuine imports into prehistoric Britain then they would be of some importance in suggesting trade networks . |
| 13 | I had picked my pall-bearers carefully , so that , for obvious reasons , they would be of more or less uniform height , but one of them was late , and the fourth corner had to be hoisted onto the shoulder of Nigel 's nephew , who was six-foot-four-plus-a-bit . |
| 14 | If the claims were made simply on the basis of introspection without systematic observation in the community , they would be of precisely the same order ( except that they would be unaccountable and probably much less reliable ) . |
| 15 | Some of their skills and knowledge are specific to the company for which they work , and they would be of less value to another company . |
| 16 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 17 | If solutions were to be found they would be of a technological nature . |
| 18 | I came across these two booklets on confirmation and wondered if they would be of interest to either you or Paul . |
| 19 | Arguments amongst the girls would break out but they would be of a trivial nature to begin with . |
| 20 | If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ? |
| 21 | On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate ( the tympan ) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth ( angular distance along the horizon ) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude . |
| 22 | If I 'm not very much mistaken , they would be for packing up the Presley hoard in . ’ |
| 23 | They want to use condoms — nine out of 10 agreed it was sensible to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ — but half those surveyed said they would be to embarrassed to buy them . |
| 24 | Bentham was also clear what the Panopticon would mean for those who had to occupy it , subjected as they would be to " … an authority so much exceeding anything that has hitherto signified as despotic " ( Works , IV p 63 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 25 | Clement 's purpose was to make cultured persons under instruction for baptism , called ‘ catechumens ’ ( by contrast with ‘ the faithful ’ who are the baptized ) , feel that they would be at home in the church . |
| 26 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 27 | They would be at the light barricade at the bottom of the dip in ten minutes . |
| 28 | The paternalistic Tillers knew they would be at risk so William was taken on to carry out these arrangements . |
| 29 | In less than an hour 's time they would be at St Petrock 's , and Susan would be on the platform to meet her , with dear old Sambo , the Airedale , barking his head off with glee . |
| 30 | I decided to spend three nights watching the Peckoltias when they would be at their most active to gauge the aggression that — during the day — I did not see . |