Example sentences of "they would be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Instead he had to contend with the usual difficulty of those with rights in personam : if the trustee was insolvent , they would be worth little .
2 They would be worth one-fifth of residents ' pay and cover half the value of the goods .
3 They would be worth thousands !
4 Thereafter they would be into the East March , and following the enemy would be less straightforward , with the country opening out and various routes possible — into the Merse , down the Scots side of Tweed , down the English side , or southwards into the Till valley of Northumberland .
5 It follows that the British courts are under a statutory obligation to apply to Community legal texts the Community methods of interpretation as developed by the European Court ; they would be under Community law even without the statutory provision .
6 In all fairness , they would be under a great deal of pressure .
7 If they were genuine imports into prehistoric Britain then they would be of some importance in suggesting trade networks .
8 I had picked my pall-bearers carefully , so that , for obvious reasons , they would be of more or less uniform height , but one of them was late , and the fourth corner had to be hoisted onto the shoulder of Nigel 's nephew , who was six-foot-four-plus-a-bit .
9 If the claims were made simply on the basis of introspection without systematic observation in the community , they would be of precisely the same order ( except that they would be unaccountable and probably much less reliable ) .
10 Some of their skills and knowledge are specific to the company for which they work , and they would be of less value to another company .
11 Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements .
12 If solutions were to be found they would be of a technological nature .
13 I came across these two booklets on confirmation and wondered if they would be of interest to either you or Paul .
14 Arguments amongst the girls would break out but they would be of a trivial nature to begin with .
15 If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ?
16 On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate ( the tympan ) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth ( angular distance along the horizon ) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude .
17 If I 'm not very much mistaken , they would be for packing up the Presley hoard in . ’
18 They want to use condoms — nine out of 10 agreed it was sensible to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ — but half those surveyed said they would be to embarrassed to buy them .
19 Bentham was also clear what the Panopticon would mean for those who had to occupy it , subjected as they would be to " … an authority so much exceeding anything that has hitherto signified as despotic " ( Works , IV p 63 , emphasis in original ) .
20 Clement 's purpose was to make cultured persons under instruction for baptism , called ‘ catechumens ’ ( by contrast with ‘ the faithful ’ who are the baptized ) , feel that they would be at home in the church .
21 I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it .
22 They would be at the light barricade at the bottom of the dip in ten minutes .
23 The paternalistic Tillers knew they would be at risk so William was taken on to carry out these arrangements .
24 In less than an hour 's time they would be at St Petrock 's , and Susan would be on the platform to meet her , with dear old Sambo , the Airedale , barking his head off with glee .
25 I decided to spend three nights watching the Peckoltias when they would be at their most active to gauge the aggression that — during the day — I did not see .
26 After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day .
27 This meant they would be at least doubling their monthly instalment payments .
28 It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away .
29 If someone were asked , ‘ is salt masculine or feminine ’ , they would be at a loss ; the question only makes sense if they are asked to compare salt with pepper .
30 Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case !
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