Example sentences of "you would be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to visit it you would be struck by the quietness of the small pool . |
| 2 | i in the sense that so if you come out public with this you are , you are breaking the United Front and you would be seen to break the United Front . |
| 3 | Certainly , once committed to a personal code , I can make value as well as factual judgments about your conduct ; but if your first principle is ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ and mine is ‘ Care only for yourself ’ , it seems that there is no objective test by which one of us can convince the other that he is right , as there is for an issue of fact . |
| 4 | ‘ If you had to sum up our philosophy in a few words , it would be : ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ , ’ says Margaret . |
| 5 | ‘ Do as you would be done by ! |
| 6 | Do as you would be done by , old son . |
| 7 | ‘ Do unto others as you would be done by ’ was a more positive social prescription of societies like Toronto but ‘ Scratch my back and I 'll scratch yours ’ was a workable Asian substitute . |
| 8 | After each game you would be forgiven if you thought they had always won , because , win or lose , their only concern was ‘ who are we playing next ’ ? |
| 9 | Well so many of these songs have been done by so many people that you would be forgiven for thinking that , that . |
| 10 | She was n't a woman you would be tempted to pity or patronise . |
| 11 | If you accidentally caused a fire with your blowlamp , you would be covered by the fire section . |
| 12 | Related is the case with Sarastro 's stern announcement ‘ wenn ich dich ihren Händen liesse ’ ( ‘ [ you would be deprived of happiness ] were I to leave you in her hands ’ ) : here , as shown in ex.2f , Mozart underlines an emphatic crescendo to the climax of the phrase with the word ‘ staccato ’ ( in the left upper corner ) and decisive strokes in violins and basses . |
| 13 | In society as it is today , you would be accepted nearly everywhere . |
| 14 | Within days of helping me you would be transferred back to the hospital wing of Vladimir , within a few months you would be home … think on it . |
| 15 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 16 | If I provide you with second-class expenses you would be justified in cheating me . |
| 17 | If you were a member of a French all-girl Pack you would be called a Jeanette . |
| 18 | If you were a girl Wolf Cub you would be called a Louvette . |
| 19 | In some countries in the world you would be stoned to death . |
| 20 | But you do realize you would be lynched if you did n't do Poor Man , |
| 21 | ‘ No matter what the situation at the Priory , if your friend Ryan is not available you would be presented with real difficulty . |
| 22 | then you would be limited to that . |
| 23 | The French relieve you of £1.05 in tax , 63 per cent of the £1.66 pump price you would be charged if diesel happened to be sold by the gallon in Calais . |
| 24 | Shildon-born Mr Jackson said : ‘ To be a good instructor you must have had at least a season 's skiing on snow and if you want to get basic qualifications you would be charged around £3,000 . ’ |
| 25 | If I had my way then kerb-crawlers like you would be locked away ! |
| 26 | That does n't mean that you would be engaged in the same boring work all the time . |
| 27 | Well you would be registered here then would n't you . |
| 28 | If you 're brought up with your dad having a very strict view about what people should like , in a more severe way than my dad , then you would be bound to get worried , because your parents never say ; ‘ You look good enough ’ . |
| 29 | He sounded almost admiring , but then went and spoilt it all by adding , ‘ Although I suppose if you 've gone through life getting yourself into situations like this you would be bound to develop a fairly strong streak of subbornness by now . ’ |
| 30 | and he said , you would be bound to win |