Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And what have your sisters been doing today ? ’ — The ‘ broth ’ would laugh , and while they were laughing would kick and pinch the two youngest under the table , — and while Ellie and Patsy were rubbing their bruises , steal the food off their plates . |
| 2 | The big stope up into which they were climbing would have appeared immense and would have eerily distorted the sounds in the mine creaking windlasses , rattling chains , voices , hammering , broken rock , the splash of water and the clatter of ironwork . |
| 3 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 4 | Most soldiers would have been only too happy to go over the top , as they no longer believed they would survive a war some were saying would last for ever . |
| 5 | ‘ The skills they were learning would range from skiing through to simple survival , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 7 | The slamming of car doors and the revving of car engines late at night when customers are leaving would create a further disturbance . |
| 8 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 9 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 10 | Wednesday night 's picking would keep as fresh as berries picked on Friday , even in the hottest weather . |
| 11 | On the one hand the approach I am proposing would lead the learners to realize ( in the sense of actualize ) grammatical potential in contexts of use , that is to say that it would lead to effective behaviour . |
| 12 | It would also mean , as Charlotte knew , that awareness of what was happening would remain under one roof , that her judgement of what should and should not be done could be neutralized along with Ursula 's . |
| 13 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 14 | It seemed terribly wrong that her family were still struggling even now to keep their heads above water , that many like them were close to starvation , when the clothes she , Alice , was wearing would have kept them in food for at least half a year . |
| 15 | But whoever was calling would know someone was here . |
| 16 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 17 | I thought the noise my pulse was making would wake the dead . |
| 18 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 19 | One example is the doctrine of mistake in rape : it might appear to be ‘ inexorable logic ’ that if the offence of rape is only committed where D knew that the woman was not consenting or was reckless as to her non-consent , a mistaken belief that she was consenting would lead to an acquittal . |
| 20 | In a world in which women are understood to be the equals of men , and in which we must promote the equality of people of different races , such a Christology as that which I was proposing would seem to be fruitful . |
| 21 | What he was planning would tie half the hospital up for the entire morning ! |
| 22 | It independently concluded that the main causes of the deficit in 1988–90 had been identified and that the Action Plan the University was following would prevent a similar situation arising in the future . |