Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | If he was not back tonight , then he would be tomorrow and if he was late , she must tell Bert that they were going to Ireland on Tuesday , early . |
2 | It would be otherwise if I had my husband with me and my first-born but as it is I feel neither one thing or the other . |
3 | And if she opened the door again any sign of the man she had just glimpsed , the human being behind the impenetrable barrier , would be instantly and totally erased . |
4 | So that the mess would be outside and not inside . |
5 | And that would be soon as ever he had his own son safely established back under this roof , where he should have been all along ! |
6 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
7 | So he would be under the STV , and in many constituencies his re.adoption would be practically as it is now a guarantee of his return to Westminster . |
8 | It was only sexual jealousy that he felt , after all , because he had convinced himself that she and Florian had been lovers and probably would be again when this was over . |
9 | Anne Hanvey would be here before she knew it , to pick up Nick and Linda for school . |
10 | ‘ I never dreamed I would be here when I was lying in bed getting the chemotherapy with a five to ten per cent chance of survival . |
11 | He would be here if he was not in prison . ’ |
12 | Did Florian think she would be here if the name had occurred in the almost six months of correspondence between her and Giles ? |
13 | This would be here as long as the world , Mungo thought . |
14 | And the u a couple of them would come , a black and a white would be here and no bother at all . |
15 | They did n't want his help , each one told him straight , because by the time he was briefed into what they were working on , then he would be away and they 'd have wasted the classroom time . |
16 | Fears revolved more around the fact that potential conflict situations were being compounded rather than being created by conglomerates , and that these conflicts would be increasingly and more easily abused . |
17 | Love with such a person , Miranda knew , would be exactly as she had imagined it : ringed with radiance , and tenderness and glamour , larger than life , more brightly-coloured , just like the movies . |
18 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
19 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
20 | That would be just after you decided not to declare exterminatus after all … |
21 | your conduct was such that it would be just and equitable to make a deduction ; |
22 | whenever the court is of the opinion that in the circumstances it would be just and equitable to dissolve the partnership . |
23 | It would be just as mistaken to assume that pensions legislation was always indicative of concessionary responses to mounting pressure on behalf of the particular groups that eventually benefited . |
24 | The Stop the M12 group is also opposed to upgrading the A12 , fearing this would be just as damaging to the environment . |
25 | Mr Andrew Collins , QC , for the wives — who were not legally aided — suggested it would be just if those responsible for the ‘ singularly inept ’ drafting of the poll tax legislation were ordered to pay the costs bill . |
26 | She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot . |
27 | I think it would be best if I went somewhere else . ’ |
28 | ‘ It would be best if we continued this conversation elsewhere . ’ |
29 | Maybe it would be best if you came over here . ’ |
30 | Now , if you 're not going to order another drink quietly then I think it would be best if you went on your way . ’ |