Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a view which no doubt would be defended with equal firmness at Horbury which lays particular stress on the personal touch . |
| 2 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 3 | And as for defence , ’ he went on , ‘ Britain would be defended by arms manufactured in Germany or France just as well as by arms manufactured in Britain , if this were necessary for good economic reasons . ’ |
| 4 | Lord Aldington , who lives at Knoll Farm , Aldington , Ashford , Kent , is claiming libel damages over allegations in a pamphlet that he arranged the repatriation of around 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs , knowing they would be massacred on their return . |
| 5 | He feared that shorelines would be repolluted with every storm for months to come . |
| 6 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 7 | The chaos would be compounded by some schools claiming grant-maintained status . |
| 8 | How our various nuclear liabilities would be handled under privatisation . |
| 9 | It remains to be seen whether the changes were that dramatic , but the new dispensation was certainly to mean that sociological themes and realism generally would be handled with more care . |
| 10 | A meeting of ministers from the 16 German Länder in Dresden on Dec. 14 , 1990 , discussed the possible imposition of a quota for Soviet Jewish immigrants , but on Jan. 9 , 1991 , Wolfgang Schäuble , the German Interior Minster , announced that they would be handled on a " generous case-by-case basis " . |
| 11 | But , as things transpired , it was Nation 's eventual storyline , initially titled ‘ The Mutants ’ that was to set the seal on the way the science fiction stories would be handled within Doctor Who 's structure . |
| 12 | It had been decided sherry would be handled by McGee , supper by them both , port by McGee and coffee by them both . |
| 13 | At the same meeting an asylum convention was signed by all the members except Denmark under which each asylum case would be handled by only one member-state and thereby end the so-called " orbiting " of refugees from one country to another . |
| 14 | De Klerk also ordered the dismantling of the SSC secretariat , whose functions would be handled by a Cabinet committee for security matters . |
| 15 | Under new disputes procedures , ( i ) competition cases would be handled by the EC Commission and the ECJ if they involved companies from both the EC and EFTA ( and by EFTA only if they concerned only EFTA companies ) ; ( ii ) disagreements over the operation of the EEA would go to a joint EEA political committee , with either party having the right to seek binding arbitration if the issue were unresolved ; and ( iii ) the ECJ would have sole powers to rule on the interpretation of EEA laws , while EFTA courts would give their " best endeavours " to comply with such rulings . |
| 16 | Appeals would be handled by military courts that are independent of government influence , Gad Ben-Ami , spokesman for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , said after a Christopher-Rabin meeting . |
| 17 | She demanded guarantees before aid would be resumed following the refusal by Bosnian Serbs to allow convoys to reach isolated towns in eastern Bosnia . |
| 18 | The Earl announced that unless the weather deteriorated again , the Tournament would be resumed on the Friday morning and all of the participants spent Thursday drying out and preparing their costumes . |
| 19 | Also on March 2 Rodríguez announced that diplomatic relations would be resumed with Nicaragua following the inauguration on April 25 of President-elect Violeta Chamorro [ see p. 37370 ] . |
| 20 | It was hoped , however , that the worst would be over once conflict in the Gulf had been resolved ; normal trading , people assumed , would be resumed in the summer of 1991 . |
| 21 | It was anticipated , therefore , that the Premiers ' talks — three sessions of which had been held since September 1990 — would be resumed in April or May . |
| 22 | This would mean that in the absence of clear words , the terms of the hypothetical letting would be dictated by the market at the review date , and not by the terms of the lease . |
| 23 | The level of supplementary allocations would be dictated by the success of councils in obtaining grant from the various EC programmes operating in Scotland . |
| 24 | He assured the Manager that all was well and that his certificate would be posted without delay , so the public service commenced later the same day , thus the whole South Metropolitan system was opened in 1906 , making 13.36 route miles . |
| 25 | British detectives would be posted to Miami , Florida , where the FBI 's Caribbean fraud team would use their considerable resources to support them . |
| 26 | One thousand police would be posted to the suburbs that summer and 12 more " houses of justice " would be built as centres for dispute settlement and advisory services . |
| 27 | One company threatened that replies from MPs to their standard letter would be posted on surgery notice-boards in their constituencies . |
| 28 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |
| 29 | Eventually the whole lot would be blown into ROMS . |
| 30 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |