Example sentences of "we would be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , we would like to do more , I mean , we would be prepared , and the money is available . |
| 2 | The fifth point says : ’ There must be detailed negotiations on how we would be affected by the detailed introduction of new commodity support arrangements . ’ |
| 3 | Erm I I foresee the possibility that erm we would be faced with lesser proposals lesser than the scale that erm Professor Lock contemplates because it would be said , well if fifty hectares is right for Ha er for Harrogate then what twenty hectares for Richmondshire ten hectares . |
| 4 | Separating or separated , we would be tossed on its tides . ’ |
| 5 | At a very humble level , the bee can see in the ultraviolet , which is invisible to us : we would be tempted to say that the ultraviolet was not light , because we can not see it , but as far as the bee is concerned it most certainly is ! |
| 6 | When we were children we were told that we would be sent there if we were naughty . |
| 7 | These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make . |
| 8 | If we received job satisfaction , we would be motivated to work harder . |
| 9 | The Canadian in the next cell knew only that we would be moved into the camp itself when we had been interrogated . |
| 10 | We were lying on the ground in a row , pointing our rifles to our fronts , as he walked past each of us and made us repeat the different orders that we would be given , such as ‘ unload ’ or ‘ cock your weapon ’ . |
| 11 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 12 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 13 | If we were pushed to the fringes of power we would be stripped of influence in both Europe and the world . |
| 14 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 15 | " These are dangerous times my girl , and we would be perceived as being wealthy . |
| 16 | He thought that if we really tried , we would be rewarded . |
| 17 | I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . |
| 18 | We would be split into different groups , with perhaps ten sitting round the blackboard for one lesson and the others in another part of the room working at something else . |
| 19 | Not only was literacy not necessarily recognised as more ‘ reliable ’ , but we would be bound to say that it really was not more reliable . |
| 20 | If there were no regularity at all , if the sort of sensation which is caused by being in hot water were equally often caused by being in cold water , and vice versa , then we would be denied even the possibility of this notional classification . |
| 21 | ’ Whenever there were wolves about we would be called inside and the outside doors would be locked . |
| 22 | Strictly speaking , we would be obliged , on this view , to regard , for instance , obey , obeys and obeyed as representing different lexical units . |
| 23 | We would be obliged if you could witness our customers ' signatures where appropriate and ensure that they are fully aware of the documentation signed . |
| 24 | Not for a moment did I realise that we would be gone for almost three months , return home for nine months , and then spend one more month to finally finish in Australia ! |
| 25 | I knew that if I did not act , things were set so that we would be annihilated with no time for questions or replies . |
| 26 | Occasionally we would be treated to performances by visiting groups who had actually broadcast on the wireless , such as the Bainbridge Brothers , Lance and Jack , and the Swaledale Singers , who sang a varied programme of real life and beauty but created something of a problem with their final number . |
| 27 | ‘ If we were in Catholic west Belfast instead of Protestant north Belfast we would be treated differently . ’ |
| 28 | Occasionally we would be contracted by Ipuky to bring a cargo of silver ingots north from the mines on the Eastern Sea , and then upriver from the Delta . |
| 29 | She broke off as though to allow this to sink in then went on : ‘ Father knew perfectly well that my brother and I did n't agree , that we would part as soon as possible , so he made sure that we would be tied together in all the wrangling that would go on because of the joint legacy . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Caroline made it clear that if she died before her husband then we would be made guardians , ’ said her sister Meriel Rosser . |