Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 4 | SunPics spokesman Kevin Olsen said that Adobe technology would be integrated within the four layers of its NewsPrint system , particularly the imaging and font layer where X11/News and its own well-established F3 scalable font format standard already reside . |
| 5 | It would , Burlatsky suggested , be based upon a wide variety of property forms , including state property which would be developed to the higher level of public ownership of the whole people . |
| 6 | It would be displayed in a special gallery in the Palace of Arts and the proceeds from the small fee charged for admission would be added to the fund set up by the Queen for the benefit of her many charitable concerns . |
| 7 | He was going out and would be engaged for the following few days . |
| 8 | That does n't mean that you would be engaged in the same boring work all the time . |
| 9 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 10 | Ex. 8 its brilliance would be enhanced in no small degree by the presence of the open E string of the 2nd violins . |
| 11 | The compromise plan involved a phased US withdrawal over a three-year period , the modalities of which were to be worked out by a special panel which would be chaired by the chief presidential aide , Franklin Drilon . |
| 12 | Faced with the reality that newspapers ( and television stations ) were no more than private organs for private gain , commentators could only hope that private ownership would be tempered by a social conscience . |
| 13 | The antiprotons would follow the same path through the magnets — but in the opposite direction to the protons — and would be accelerated to the same energies . |
| 14 | Police Gen. Sawaeng Thirasawat , the police director-general , announced on May 16 , 1990 , that a 100-member police commando unit would be deployed in the south-eastern province of Chon Buri following a wave of violent crimes linked to business disputes . |
| 15 | The cumulative loan would be repaid through a private agency , the Student Loans Company , over a period of , say , 10 years . |
| 16 | Under the terms of the agreement the debt would be repaid over a 20-year period , at an interest rate on 5 per cent . |
| 17 | In addition it was agreed that intelligence and incriminating evidence on drug traffickers would be exchanged between the four countries , which would share any proceeds from seizure or confiscation of drug cartel property . |
| 18 | Diana , they decided , would be painted as a sick woman with only a tenuous grasp of reality . |
| 19 | In the absence of a new constitution , however , this was still not permitted , and Fujimori subsequently made it known that Gúzman would be sentenced to perpetual imprisonment on Oct. 17 by a military court ; this sentence , he said , would be confirmed by the Supreme Military Justice Council on Oct. 27 . |
| 20 | A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party . |
| 21 | Coincidences happen daily in ‘ real life ’ which would be condemned in a mere story , so writers tend to avoid them . |
| 22 | Soon , the early moving-pictures would be condemned in the same terms as ‘ a direct incentive to crime , demonstrating , for instance , how a theft could be perpetrated ’ . |
| 23 | In the latter case the operation would be repeated with a second set of tests . |
| 24 | Following legal completion many aspects of the exercise would be repeated at the detailed design stage or when finalising sale prices . |
| 25 | At the end of the season , three clubs would be relegated from the Premier Division , with only the championship winners being promoted from the First Division . |
| 26 | The backbone of this line would be formed by the neglected and despised forts . |
| 27 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 28 | In the face of continuing Hungarian objections , Meciar was reported to have agreed to consultations involving the European Communities , but only on ecological aspects ; the findings would be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague . |
| 29 | Near the top of column three on page 79 the text read ‘ the net originating difference of £12,050 is taxed at 33% , and so £3,976 would be credited to the deferred tax account ( assuming a full tax charge ) ’ . |
| 30 | ( It is interesting to compare Fawcett 's position to that of Ramsay MacDonald , whose adherence to patriarchal views within the family surpassed his faith in collectivism in the matter of family allowances ; he declared that under socialism the mother and children 's right to maintenance would be honoured by the male breadwinner , not the state . ) |