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 . ’
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