Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seated himself in a chair and Emily paused for a moment , she could hardly ask the maid to bring the girl into the drawing-room where Spencer would be listening to every word . |
| 2 | If he surpassed himself with a full-scale mock-up of the ceiling for the Salla Romana with a snake-pit of interwoven flowers and exuberant garlands , he could be sure that a cursory glance by Ceauşescu would be followed by the demand , ‘ More flowers , more gold leaf . ’ |
| 3 | The result was the great British compromise ; Tawell would be charged with the lesser crime of possessing a forged bond rather than actually forging it . |
| 4 | Ken would be starring in the play opposite Dame Edith Evans , who was admittedly close to the end of her remarkable career and had n't yet lived down that famous interpretation of hers in the film of The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 5 | Again it was touch and go whether Dustin would be fired before the first night . |
| 6 | England defeated Poland 1-0 , Roger Hunt the goalscorer and the tenacious manner of that victory persuaded us that the possibilities were immense ; of that team , only Jimmy Greaves would be missing from the World Cup Final . |
| 7 | In return , Trident would be offered as a replacement for the ageing Polaris submarine-based missiles as the basis of the so-called ‘ British independent deterrent ’ . |
| 8 | Since reform was now unavoidable it must be made certain that Ireland would be included under the redistribution clauses and that the House of Lords should be restored to entrench resistance to Labour . |
| 9 | President Lansana Conte ( who on April 4 , 1990 , was given the rank of major-general by the CMRN ) said in his 1990 New Year address that the draft constitution being drawn up by a 50-member committee chaired by Foreign Minister Maj. Jean Traore would be submitted to the nation for discussion and amendment during 1990 ; a referendum on it would be held by the end of the year [ see also p. 37060 ] . |
| 10 | Under normal circumstances the bulk of government patronage in Scotland would be distributed through the agency of ministers familiar with local politics , and it was this which gave the crown its commanding influence in the country . |
| 11 | Nuclear forces in Ukraine would be dismantled by the end of 1994 ( including tactical nuclear weapons by July 1992 ) . |
| 12 | In 1968 it was planned that field staff working in the north of England would be based in the new Scottish headquarters but later , the space originally allocated to them was given to the Marine Geophysics Unit . |
| 13 | It is at least conceivable that modern England would be benefited by the extension of official law . |
| 14 | it was agreed that thirty one January would be set as a deadline for recruiting national account execs , pending a salary review |
| 15 | Ibn Fayoud would be celebrating in the bar and Annie had urged her to join them , but there was only one place Kelly wanted to be — home , in her bed , lying there reliving today 's race . |
| 16 | Joy would be drawn towards the shops and restaurants which had friendly , helpful staff — while Gloom would bump into those who were stern and morose . |
| 17 | Spain would be diminished by the secession of Euskadi and Catalonia , Britain by that of Scotland and Wales , France by that of Corsica , Belgium would become two counties , while further east the states of the present Soviet sphere of influence would go their own way , perhaps with Slovaks separating from Czechs , and the Balkans would be redivided among Slovene , Croat , Serb and enlarged Albanian states , with an independent Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania re-emerging along the Baltic . |
| 18 | Backward , peasant Russia would be transformed into a dynamic , modern , industrial society in which their talents and expertise would find full scope . |
| 19 | In another few minutes , she and Simon would be arriving at the Sintra home of Margrida d'Arcos and she would be meeting Vitor again . |
| 20 | Finally , the Commission assessed that there was a high probability that , in the near future , the dominant position of ATR/De Havilland would be transformed into a monopoly . |
| 21 | The Syrian government had informed Turkey in May that the PKK would be ejected from the Bekaa . |
| 22 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would be working for The Mob these days . |
| 23 | For failing to attend the Kirk , John Browne would be reported to the authorities by the Session and the Dragoons would pay him a visit — if they could find him . |
| 24 | ’ Parliament Street would be continued on the line of the Government Offices in Whitehall to ‘ form a noble approach to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey ’ . |
| 25 | Under it , the capital , expertise and technology of the USA and Canada would be combined with the cheap labour and resources of Mexico to establish the world 's most populous free-trade market with 360,000,000 consumers and a combined gross domestic product ( GDP ) of US$6,450,000 million . |
| 26 | He hoped the wonderful change in Kidderminster would be repeated in every parish in the land . |
| 27 | All had agreed that one Christopher E. Chryselius would be employed in the workings , and he was to he paid one guinea a week — no mean wage . |
| 28 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 29 | The number of people who have died on our streets is equivalent to a hundred thousand people dying in the streets of Britain , if that were happening , then the House of Commons would be packed to the doors everyday , until they got it sorted out . |
| 30 | I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice . |