Example sentences of "would [adv] be [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 2 | not , which , one which would not be over in a year and a half . |
| 3 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 4 | The two girls would not be back till the following weekend . |
| 5 | She told us that the priest would not be back until the afternoon . |
| 6 | There is not a golfer among us who would not be out on the green every day if the weather and our partners would allow . |
| 7 | She would soon be back from the police station and the supermarket with tales to tell , tales of Oriental complexity and splendour , of law and commerce and life on the seething streets . |
| 8 | The ‘ tendentious ’ story would soon be out of the way , making possible a return to what Dostoevsky thought was much more important , the Life of a Great Sinner project . |
| 9 | They reckon a million people would still be off after a year . |
| 10 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 11 | The ANC subsequently announced the postponement until June 1991 of a national congress initially planned for December , when a new leadership was to have been elected , on the grounds that delays in agreeing the conditions for the return of the exiles meant that a large proportion of ANC membership would still be out of the country at that time . |
| 12 | A comparable dry desert area of the arctic might yield a similar selection of cryptogams , but there would probably be up to a dozen species of flowering plants scattered among them . |
| 13 | He said I would n't be up against an angry mob at my age . |
| 14 | You 'd think he 'd have told you he would n't be around for the next week or two . |
| 15 | The sweet williams would n't be out for a few days . |
| 16 | It would n't have been so bad if the two girls in the flat upstairs were at home , but they would n't be back until the end of the week . |
| 17 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 18 | It would then be up to the US and Canada to decide whether they want to face towards the Atlantic or Pacific — or be caught between two great trading oceans . |
| 19 | It would then be up to the employee to set up his own business and exploit the patent if he is able to attract venture or loan capital to do so . |
| 20 | It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war . |
| 21 | Two , the could proceed without the landlord 's licence , it would then be up to the landlord to apply to the court to have the lease forfeited when you could arrange the defence that you were a reasonable tenant and as such the assignment should have been allowed to permit this course of action but of course you are using bank money as well as your own and the bank would be unhappy to lend money in a situation where there was a possibility , albeit a slight , that the lease would be forfeited . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'll stay overnight , of course , ’ Agnese had decreed , when it became obvious that they would indeed be around for the party . |