Example sentences of "[noun prp] would be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more Jack was in demand , as a lecturer , teacher , and man of letters , the more danger there was that Warnie would be thrown back on his own society or , worse , on that of Mrs Moore . |
| 2 | Finally , in April , 1988 , an agenda for withdrawal - many would say retreat - was drawn up in the Geneva accords : all 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be pulled out by February 15 , 1989 . |
| 3 | Again then , knowing these people somewhat , I feel they would follow the apparent winner and South Korea would be gobbled up to be added to the rest of Red Asia . |
| 4 | A senior official at the Russian gas industry monopoly Gazprom told Itar-Tass news agency that supplies to Ukraine would be cut off on Thursday . |
| 5 | Martin Page of KPMG Peat Marwick said it was likely that R E Gobbitt and Sons of Worlingworth would be wound up after completing existing commitments . |
| 6 | Its responsibilities East of Suez would be taken over by a new tri-Service headquarters established at Aden under an air vice-marshal with the title of HQ British Forces , Middle East . |
| 7 | An agreement had hastily been arrived at , to the effect that Cornelius would be kept on at school for an indefinite period until matters could be expedited . |
| 8 | An Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 appeared to have produced an acceptable compromise proposal : al-Megrahi and Fhimah would be handed over first to the Arab League , which would then through UN channels deliver them to either the UK or the US judicial authorities ; the League then sent a delegation to Tripoli to negotiate the terms of the handover . |
| 9 | Additionally the following measures were agreed : ( i ) that a joint working party would be set up , charged with defining " political offences in the South African situation " and with advising on " mechanisms for dealing with the release of political prisoners and the granting of immunity " ; ( ii ) that " temporary immunity from prosecution for political offences " would be considered as a matter of urgency for the ANC 's NEC members and others , to enable them to return to the country without fear of prosecution ; ( iii ) that the government would " review existing security legislation to bring it into line with the new dynamic situation developing in South Africa in order to ensure normal and free political activities " ; ( iv ) that the government would work towards the lifting of the state of emergency ; ( v ) that efficient channels of communication between the government and the ANC would be set up in order to curb violence and intimidation from whatever quarter . |
| 10 | The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said 46 Serbs would be flown out of Tuzla today . |
| 11 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 12 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
| 13 | Yeo Davis could have credibly warned Barton that , whatever the public statements , there was a real risk that Huerter would be bailed out . ’ |
| 14 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |
| 15 | For the comrades it was a back-handed way of ensuring that the increasingly suspect and disliked Pilger would be ruled out as editor . |
| 16 | Mr Paterson said the formal consultation process on permanent closure of Heiton would be carried out over the summer . |
| 17 | Earlier yesterday Mr Patten had dismissed as a ‘ ridiculous rumour ’ a report that Hong Kong would be frozen out of the early stages of any Sino-British negotiations . |
| 18 | Mary would be sent out like a rowing boat among the waiting fleet — a word here , a suggestion there , showing again the presence of the command vessel . |
| 19 | I might have known that Dr. Lorrimer would be mixed up in it . |
| 20 | GLEB would be paid back with shares in the company when it was floated , and be given a say in the structure of the company . |
| 21 | Mascot diet : Organisers of Atlanta 's 1996 Olympics said their mascot a shapeless smiling blob known as Whatizit would be slimmed down and given a proper male name to broaden its appeal . |
| 22 | Aunt Sarah would be curled up on the sofa , in guernsey and old jeans , having chased Robin and Jenny out so that she could phone in peace . |
| 23 | On Oct. 21 it was announced that the last of the nuclear reactors at Greifswald would be shut down by mid-December 1990 , three other reactors there having already been closed during 1990 . |
| 24 | There was no hint that Waringstown would be kept down to such a moderate total when Shane Harrison and Brian Sturgeon put on 46 for the first wicket . |
| 25 | The blueprint for strengthening the CSCE 's ability to deal with crises and conflicts in Europe would be worked out by senior officials in a three-month conference , to culminate in a CSCE summit in July . |
| 26 | Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning . |
| 27 | Confident that Clasper would be brought down by his own members without any interference from him , Bunker concluded that his best course of action would be to emulate Brer Rabbit on this occasion , and ‘ lie low and say nuffin' . ’ |
| 28 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 29 | Sir Alfred had spent enough of Rubery Owen 's profits and was impatient for success ; BRM would be closed down if it failed to win races in 1962 . |
| 30 | That an exchange of the ransom for Simon Cormack would be set up within the day , and that the authorities were confident all the kidnappers would be caught in the process . |