Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] would be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 2 | Only , to say that I I I would be opposed because I believe you should delegate to committees to run their affairs and their resources in the way they want to . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best way to start on this is to ask ourselves what would be lost if we were to speak without intonation : you should try to imagine speech in which every syllable was said on the same level pitch , with no pauses and no changes in speed or loudness . |
| 4 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 5 | They can be teamed up with an additional pair of short curtains hanging above them which would be drawn at night , thus giving a tiered effect . |
| 6 | I enclose a wooden varnished toy which I would be obliged if you would examine and test under the above Regulations . |
| 7 | Since the scheme only started in 1978 , the current maximum amount of additional pension to which you would be entitled is £66.97 a week . |
| 8 | It had to be someone anonymous , but somebody who would be allowed to speak to the man if he was there , and someone who might conceivably be ringing on a Saturday night . |
| 9 | Rufus took her £40 off her by the reception desk , having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic , with Rufus , her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed . |
| 10 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 11 | Such a theory might claim , for instance , that to understand a proposition is to be able to tell the difference between circumstances in which one would be justified in believing it and those in which one would not . |
| 12 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 13 | Have we yet reached the point at which we would be awarded damages against the Meteorological Office because we went camping on the day of an unforecast hurricane ? |
| 14 | When the going got rough the brothers usually sent a deputy to face the unpleasant hostility to which they would be exposed . |
| 15 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 16 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
| 17 | He envisaged a shift , in line with modern educational thinking , away from a system in which pupils are assessed in relation to each other ( a norm-referenced system ) to one in which they would be assessed in relation to certain pre-specified criteria ( a criterion-referenced system ) . |
| 18 | She scraped them carefully and put them in a steel pan , covering them with the bottled still water in which they would be boiled , thereby retaining the vitamin C which would otherwise have been poured down the sink . |
| 19 | Philip Ball and his fellow prisoners feared that life in the stricter Queen 's Bench Prison ( so named since 1837 ) , to which they would be transferred , would be less jovial . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 24 | Hoffmann J. declared that in each case the beneficial interest in the property was owned by the bankrupt and his wife in equal shares and he made orders for possession and sale but , after considering the circumstances of the two wives and their children and , in particular , that the half shares to which they would be entitled would be insufficient for them to acquire other accommodation in the area and the educational problems of the children , imposed a provision for postponement until the youngest child in each case attained the age of sixteen . |
| 25 | The question posed is , What is the minimum acceptable budget below which anyone would be accepted as poor ? |
| 26 | He was a god , poised to be at the centre of another Big Bang , creating a new universe with which he would be integrated in the most positive way . |
| 27 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 28 | The imagination without which he would be imprisoned in ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ is a simulation of perceiving which analogizes to what he has already perceived . |
| 29 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 30 | He faces a one-month cautionary suspension during which he would be allowed to race . |