Example sentences of "they would be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 2 | Claims or our EEC Branch or handling agent will be involved and they would be handling the claim . |
| 3 | Claims or EEC branches or handling agents will be involved and they would be handling the claim . |
| 4 | The members of the audience were asked to watch the film closely as they would be asked questions about it afterwards . |
| 5 | Those giving evidence obviously read the papers more conscientiously than the rest of us , and had short briefing sessions beforehand with the counsel on their side , but did not know what questions they would be asked . |
| 6 | Should they digress they would be asked to find other accommodation forthwith . |
| 7 | It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving . |
| 8 | It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving . |
| 9 | When they arrived , they would be led into a sitting room where a microphone had been set up in front of each chair , with a tape recorder in the middle of the floor . |
| 10 | His special task was to kidnap mortal women and take them back to the fairy mound where they would be employed as wet-nurses for fairy children . |
| 11 | And the people that lived there there was were there for the season , but they would help with the harvest , so they go dyking and fencing and er r r and at the time of the shooting season they would be employed with poling man and dog man or something like that of long ago . |
| 12 | Moreover he persuaded his father to agree that if the terms imposed on the rebels last summer were not acceptable to them now — as obviously they were not — then they would be granted a fresh hearing in the King 's court . |
| 13 | They would be charged with specific tasks , such as monitoring discrimination , checking for ageism in job advertisements , creating a wider range of opportunities for older workers . |
| 14 | The adaptability of African farmers was not in doubt , but whether they would be given the means to expand production to meet growing urban and international markets was an open question . |
| 15 | Howard re-iterated his demands for the Nez Perce to settle at Lapwai , but said that they would be given hunting and fishing passes for the Imnaha valley . |
| 16 | Lacking form , these movements had failed in 1848 — 50 , but now they would be given shape and direction by a monarchical revolution from above which would establish Prussian pre-eminence in Germany . |
| 17 | They were told they would be given refunds , and had to join the rest of the crowds on the dockside and promenades . |
| 18 | If they made a good impression during that brief stay at the University , they would be given priority of consideration for becoming undergraduates when they were demobilised . |
| 19 | In exchange , they would be given cheese or other foods . |
| 20 | When the refugees landed in Havana , they would be given by the Hamburg-Amerika line a receipt for the unused part of the fare . |
| 21 | They would be given a 15-second credit at the start of each programme , 10 seconds at the end and the chance to screen their name either side of the break ! |
| 22 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 23 | Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on March 26 at the ceremony to swear in the new Council of Ministers in which he acknowledged that the forthcoming period would be a difficult one for the new ministers ; he said that they would be given between four and six months to demonstrate whether or not they were capable of doing their job properly . |
| 24 | Foreign companies would be able to remit part of their profits abroad , and were promised compensation in the event of " unavoidable " nationalization ; they would be given tax concessions during the initial five years of operation if they were involved in high-technology industries , resource development or infrastructure construction . |
| 25 | In February 1989 the proposed new terms and conditions were outlined by letter to staff and , after subsequent fruitless negotiations with the unions , in April 1989 a notice was sent informing the employees that the changes would be discussed with them , that they would be given a reasonable time to consider the new contracts and that they would be dismissed if they did not accept them . |
| 26 | They would be given a proper funeral in the parish church and their ashes would be interred under the ancient yew tree in the churchyard . |
| 27 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 28 | If this fails to achieve the desired results , then they would be given a further 15 years to replace lead service lines . |
| 29 | Prohibited books entered private libraries where they would be consulted by those prepared to break the rules in the interests of learning . |
| 30 | A classless society would no doubt constitute subjects who ( like Miss Beale and Miss Buss ) , would be different from us , but they would be constituted nonetheless , and could not know that their own conviction of being unexploited was not mistaken . |