Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know you mean well , but , try as I might , I ca n't think that what you are suggesting would be right — not for either of us . |
| 2 | If , however , you are resident but there is a chance that you might move , the country where you are living would not qualify as your domicile . |
| 3 | We 're going would you believe it to . |
| 4 | Gather together enough antimatter , and you have a cheap way of travelling to the stars — because obviously the only energy you would be using would be gravitational , of which there is plenty available in the Universe . |
| 5 | He points out that the droppings which the plant will be using would normally be used as manure for spreading on fields . |
| 6 | Virgin invited the Clarkes to carry out an independent audit , with the assurance that any money found to be owing would be paid . |
| 7 | But when the list of prescribed core and other foundation subjects was scrutinised , along with the suggested allocations of curricular time spelled out in the consultation document , many teachers wondered whether what they would be getting would not be a ‘ straitjacket ’ after all . |
| 8 | He wondered if the fact that there were no tracks in the direction from which they were supposed to be coming would be noticed , and thought not . |
| 9 | Also , there is the situation where a wife may not feel she can really give her husband a present because the funds she would be spending would actually be his . |
| 10 | What would be missing would be Keeton as a powerful and innovative planner and organiser . |
| 11 | For what would be missing would be the effect of his enthusiasm on others , in ways not recorded in the formal literature . |
| 12 | I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the . |
| 13 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 14 | ‘ And what have your sisters been doing today ? ’ — The ‘ broth ’ would laugh , and while they were laughing would kick and pinch the two youngest under the table , — and while Ellie and Patsy were rubbing their bruises , steal the food off their plates . |
| 15 | The big stope up into which they were climbing would have appeared immense and would have eerily distorted the sounds in the mine creaking windlasses , rattling chains , voices , hammering , broken rock , the splash of water and the clatter of ironwork . |
| 16 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 17 | Most soldiers would have been only too happy to go over the top , as they no longer believed they would survive a war some were saying would last for ever . |
| 18 | ‘ The skills they were learning would range from skiing through to simple survival , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Well er it would in a way because you 'd have to pay interest on what you were borrowing would n't you ? |
| 20 | He told them that by turning off here , the company they were following would almost certainly be heading for upper Teviotdale , by Rankilburn , Buccleuch and Bellenden , since the Ettrick valley would merely bring them back to its junction with Yarrow again . |
| 21 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 22 | The slamming of car doors and the revving of car engines late at night when customers are leaving would create a further disturbance . |
| 23 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 24 | What Jenkins is suggesting would also have the wider benefit of bringing the leading clubs and the Welsh Rugby Union into the same camp . |
| 25 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 26 | Wednesday night 's picking would keep as fresh as berries picked on Friday , even in the hottest weather . |
| 27 | In the two years since it was formed it has attracted $6m in venture capital and another $4m from big-name strategic partners , on the promise that the application development environment it 's designing would be a significant enough advance to turn the company into a nine-digit revenue producer . |
| 28 | But I mean I think that , what she 's saying would , would , ought to apply more generally |
| 29 | You had to satisfy the Traffic Commissioners , that what you are proposing would , would answer the cause , would n't give rise to erm great hardships to the travelling public and erm oh you 're preparing a fare increase about a year before it actually came up to , in front of the Commissioners and then he would erm , perhaps make some alterations or give you a date when you could apply . |
| 30 | Any attempt to withdraw research funding on the basis of the argument I am offering would , therefore , be quite illegitimate . |