Example sentences of "they would [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 2 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 3 | Second , the pattern of voting would be the same in the 54 new constituencies as in the actual 108 , in which case 53 of them would be won by the Conservatives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When the refugees landed in Havana , they would be given by the Hamburg-Amerika line a receipt for the unused part of the fare . |
| 6 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 7 | Dexter 's strictures , about the need to make progress soon , because otherwise they would be withdrawn from the case , fizzed in her mind . |
| 8 | It was arranged that later in the afternoon they would be conducted to the Monastery of Saint James ; they would be lodged that night in the village , and would return again to the church the following day for their devotions . |
| 9 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 10 | The petrol fumes could be far more dangerous to your fish , especially as they would be pumped into the tanks by your air pump , as well as settling on the water . |
| 11 | Where floor joists are built into the part wall , they would have to be cut off so that they would be supported by the new well , completely free from the party wall . |
| 12 | Unless we have very specific information , they would be cleared off the docks within two days . ’ |
| 13 | A meeting of ministers from the 16 German Länder in Dresden on Dec. 14 , 1990 , discussed the possible imposition of a quota for Soviet Jewish immigrants , but on Jan. 9 , 1991 , Wolfgang Schäuble , the German Interior Minster , announced that they would be handled on a " generous case-by-case basis " . |
| 14 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 15 | Not a piece would be saved , but they would be lost to the French as well . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that , given the current level of resources , both financial and human , the Council would be in a position to initiate central development of these courses in the near future , and it would therefore be some time before they would be incorporated into the new style provision . |
| 17 | It had to be decided whether the Vienna Convention would include provisions on objective regimes , or whether they would be subsumed under the general prescription . |
| 18 | Typically , they would be shot in the back , throwing themselves in front of the hero , and get to die pathetically in his arms . |
| 19 | There were changes to be made , a BMA spokesman said , but they would be made within the existing system . |
| 20 | How fiercely they would be incinerated by a whole skyful of such light ! |
| 21 | If there were general laws governing the history of life , it was assumed that they would be revealed by the fossil record . |
| 22 | Some British students might actually do the course , though they would be kept to a small minority . |
| 23 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 24 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 25 | Furthermore , they would be viewed as a single entity from a collections point of view . |
| 26 | Most of these birds would have bred in the northern parts of Siberia , travelling thousands of kilometres to find a place in the Seychelles where they would be assured of a supply of suitable food . |
| 27 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 28 | They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning . |
| 29 | I was assured that they would be covered in the clause regarding ‘ personal items and jewellery whilst away from home ’ for which an extra premium would be necessary . |
| 30 | They would be pitted against the sect 's estimated strength , obtained from his questioning of Louise , of the twelve main heavies , known as Apostles , and a further forty to fifty lesser nasties in the bullying hierarchy , who gloried in the title of Disciples . |