Example sentences of "they would [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | How fiercely they would be incinerated by a whole skyful of such light ! |
| 4 | Some British students might actually do the course , though they would be kept to a small minority . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , they would be viewed as a single entity from a collections point of view . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 10 | The manager 's first job on the band 's behalf was to negotiate a new deal with Red Rhino , so that they would be presented in a more important light . |
| 11 | They feared that if they refused to marry or baptize their children in church , they would be ostracized in a particularly religiously minded part of Russia . |
| 12 | If they broke the vow a curse would ensue according to which they would be savaged by a bear , split apart by an axe , knifed to death or even choked by food . |
| 13 | Fitzroy acquiesced and said that they would be placed in a Reading Room on the following day . |
| 14 | Thus at times one of the Whig connections might work together with a Tory connection in the service of the administration , and they would be opposed by a combination of Whigs and Tories who were out of office and who sought to mobilise the independent back-benchers to put pressure on the government . |
| 15 | And they would be looking for a bed for the night and it would be in the old hay shed that we would put them but there would n't be a problem . |
| 16 | He tried to pull Caspar with him so that they would be hidden by a tree , but Caspar hung back barking . |
| 17 | He declared that if either Protection or the capital levy were submitted to the Commons , they would be defeated by a majority of more than 200 . |
| 18 | 51% of managers said they were playing it safe and upgrading their current central processing system , 29% said they are sticking with what they already have whilst some 16% said they would be downsizing to a mid-range system . |
| 19 | They would be protected by a new right known as the Unfair Extraction Right , but it would only protect the data for ten years . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’ |
| 21 | in comparison with what they would be paying for a market stall then it would be it 's way out of their their |
| 22 | If Protestants could not parade wherever they liked in Ulster , then the day was not far away when they would be sold into a united Ireland . |
| 23 | Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine warned rebels they would be left with a lame duck administration if they did not ratify Maastricht . |
| 24 | Instead they would be forced into a ‘ reactive ’ relationship with the governing body and thus the school could lose the creative and professional energies that have made it so effective . |
| 25 | Er , my Lord er I my observations on that issue at this point be that erm it seems to be the defence case that for the purposes of er the defendants avoiding a duty to advise the plaintiffs as to the need for clear financial offers their terms from the bank , Mr was an experienced man of business and er had considerable financial acumen for the purposes of considering er whether under the banks original proposal for finance he would have been successful , they would be trading as a financial disaster . |
| 26 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 27 | If any of those emergency settings were needed they would be needed in a hurry , and it was the special nurse 's job to know where everything was . |
| 28 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 29 | His Liberty-style wrapping paper slip-ons were made specifically with youth hostels in mind : ‘ At the end of the stay , they would be put in a dispenser and recycled . |
| 30 | Why , he asked , should not telephone engineers when canvassing for telephone business also canvas for Electrophone subscribers , when they would be remunerated by a commission from the Electrophone Company ? |