Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , I 'd be vibrated off the couch and all over the cabin . |
| 2 | If they failed to reach the fuses in time , they 'd be killed with the rest on the wall , and only a little earlier than the men of both sides who would open fire , without doubt , claiming treachery . |
| 3 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 4 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 5 | She 'd be tucked beneath the blanket and the heavy coat and watching Gloria put on her make-up before she went out . |
| 6 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone by the time I got up . ’ |
| 7 | Well I thought they 'd be protected by the fence . |
| 8 | er November , mid November , we 've got an assault course er based at Bicester barracks , er army barracks in Bicester , and we 're inviting er various people over the age of sixteen , who live in and around the Bicester and Oxford areas er as well as down into Aylesbury , er if they 'd like to come and take part , and it 'd be sponsored for the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association and the work that we do . |
| 9 | But after a moment 's silence he said , as if casually , ‘ She 's a scamper , that one ; into every hole and corner , if I remember rightly , so she 's likely stayed out late and is frightened to go home — if old man Walton had a load on she 'd be introduced to the buckle end of his belt . |
| 10 | She demanded guarantees before aid would be resumed following the refusal by Bosnian Serbs to allow convoys to reach isolated towns in eastern Bosnia . |
| 11 | It was hoped , however , that the worst would be over once conflict in the Gulf had been resolved ; normal trading , people assumed , would be resumed in the summer of 1991 . |
| 12 | The level of supplementary allocations would be dictated by the success of councils in obtaining grant from the various EC programmes operating in Scotland . |
| 13 | This would mean that in the absence of clear words , the terms of the hypothetical letting would be dictated by the market at the review date , and not by the terms of the lease . |
| 14 | Industry Minister Taj El-Sir Mustafa said that this would be undertaken with the assistance of World Bank experts . |
| 15 | At the time the decision was that a review would be undertaken at the end of the conflict or ‘ in six months time ’ to look at the long-term future of the OCU . |
| 16 | Under this scheme , which is about to be announced to member governments , initial assessment of a wide range of goods would be undertaken by the country of manufacture . |
| 17 | Although the communiqué stressed that NATO should " deepen its dialogue " with eastern Europe , it left open the question of whether such dialogue would be undertaken by the alliance or by individual members . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , at some future data an exercise would be undertaken by the Organization and Methods section to examine the feasibility of using one document to produce the updating information required by both the Payroll Master File and the PMIS . |
| 19 | A further DM20,000 million would be channelled into the fund from the federal budget . |
| 20 | The cash would be channelled from the government to the universities via a commercial company so that in the words of the report , ‘ industrial commitment and market considerations are guaranteed ’ . |
| 21 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 22 | Management of the filing system would be aided by the introduction of the disciplined procedures required to operate the computer system , and by an improved awareness of the overall state of the system at any time . |
| 23 | Others suggested that such functionality would be integrated at the motherboard level , and that Sun was working on the technology independently to its current emulation partner , the UK 's Insignia Software of High Wycombe . |
| 24 | In the old days , the bride 's bouquet would be displayed in the entrance of her house for a day or so , and then a sprig of myrtle would be removed and planted to grow into a nice little bush , a sentimental memento to flourish on her estate and murmur ‘ constancy ’ into her subconscious . |
| 25 | Finally , leaflets and other information about social services would be displayed in the health centre waiting room . |
| 26 | He argued in the cabinet in July 1954 that the credibility of the Western deterrent would be enhanced by the multiplication of nuclear bases . |
| 27 | System monitoring would be enhanced by the collection of statistics ( computer-aided ) to influence archiving policy , the integration of local indexes with the central system , and , by demonstrating the benefits of the new system , encouraging greater adherence to required procedures . |
| 28 | Thus for Campbell the effectiveness of law as a means of controlling international nuclear force would be enhanced by the introduction at an international level of the type of legal process found in municipal legal systems , such as legislatures , courts , enforcement and monitoring agencies . |
| 29 | Though the poetic richness of ‘ Exequy ’ would be surpassed in The Waste Land , a far subtler piece of writing , the emptiness of the lesser work and its pained despair would be repeated in the masterpiece . |
| 30 | Hunter S Thompson : the dope fiends would be punished in the celluloid Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas |