Example sentences of "would be [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now would be her favoured time , now when the brothers would be gathering in the church for Compline . |
| 2 | It said that a strike would be damaging to the company and to its staff . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 4 | As I am constantly told by many who get in touch with me , uncertainty and delay would be damaging to the whole of the further and higher education sector . |
| 5 | ACAS refused to recommend recognition partly because to do so would arouse strong opposition from the other unions with a risk of industrial action which would be damaging to the industry . |
| 6 | Instead , there was an announcement , accompanied by a great hoo-hah , that the authority and its 800 jobs would be moving to the bay . |
| 7 | The building of two council estates meant that large numbers of people would be moving into the area . |
| 8 | ‘ At least they would be moving along the road . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We would pay for accommodation , e.g. in a guest house or hotel but not the cost of meals as the Policyholder would be saving on the cost of food , cooking , etc . |
| 11 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 12 | For millennia it was accepted that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe , despite all the contrary evidence , on the grounds that no other site would be fitting for the world on which the ‘ chosen ’ ( whatever their religion ) dwelt . |
| 13 | It would n't matter now what she , Dinah , did ; Robert Asshe would be hoping for an heir from the new wife , the young girl who could n't act . |
| 14 | My earlier assertion that Hunslet would be leaving at the end of the season , now appears to have been a figment of my imagination , and from what i 've read over the last couple of days Leeds appear to be up ‘ shit creek ’ . |
| 15 | Three weeks later , it was announced that Sir Michael would be leaving at the end of the year , two months earlier than planned . |
| 16 | She glanced at the clock , it was barely eight thirty and the train would be leaving within the hour . |
| 17 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 18 | He drove for his life , knew that Curly Top would be screaming into the radio he carried over his shoulder , screaming for his storm-troopers to find and stop the Jeep . |
| 19 | The computer would be burbling away and the lights would be fluttering around the console . |
| 20 | Introduced to the children by headteacher Margaret Sutton , Mrs. Bulmer said she was pleased to be able to make the visit and presented the school with a tree , which she hoped the children would be planting in the garden . |
| 21 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 22 | I would be grateful if you could inform me of the person in your department who would be dealing with the register of Wildlife Sites . |
| 23 | First of all nursery schools would be dealing with the County Council on a different basis from the vast of , of the schools population and that will give rise to anomalies and complications which would be undesirous and secondly there might be problems particularly if they are considering expanding nursery provision between nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools . |
| 24 | If we had really reached a state where a bloody and unprovoked attack on four unarmed members of our police provoked only glee and pleasure in the public then neither I , nor anyone else , would be living in a country we recognised . |
| 25 | However , any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a universe in which disorder decreased with time . |
| 26 | I imagined the witchdoctor would be living in a village of several rondavels surrounded by reed hedges . |
| 27 | If things had happened differently he , Lewis , would be living in a house like this or in a flat in central London with a cottage in the country as well . |
| 28 | He and Anne would be living in a house like this one , rather than that neo-Georgian palace . |
| 29 | If the situation were reversed , women would be protesting outside the court . |
| 30 | Otherwise people would be jumping over the Television Tower . ’ |