Example sentences of "we would [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than moving towards unitary authorities we would be considering the re-establishment of the Greater London council — a new , larger and uglier version . |
| 2 | Not only that ; we would be breaking the law if we ‘ interfered ’ with him in any way ; the sand lizard is considered rare enough to have been designated a ‘ protected species ’ ( Wildlife and Countryside Act , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Erm , my Lord the defendant 's solicitors were told in correspondence that we would be calling a conveyancing expert . |
| 4 | Who would have thought we would be watching the Kirov ( as they used to be ) performing a pas de deux from Antony Tudor 's The Leaves are Fading ? |
| 5 | My companion 's eyes glittered impishly as he said we would be combining The Five Sisters with The Saddle and Sgurr na Sgine , hoping to be finished by 5 p.m . |
| 6 | I think that it is fair to say that , if hon. Members on either side of the House had realised 10 years ago that we would be debating a sum of almost £2 billion , none of us would have recommended the one-track community care solution that has been adopted . |
| 7 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 8 | ‘ We would be paying the penalty of a sizeable but limited number of professional people , selected for their talent and experience , coming from one of the most successful societies which has been created in the 20th century . ’ |
| 9 | We would be imitating the Bolsheviks ' own rose-tinted over-concentration on their favourite study topics ( like the proletariat state and collective farms ) if we lingered here too long . |
| 10 | We , as a society , could learn from that , and , if we regarded the birth of every disabled child as a precious gift and were prepared to provide the necessary resources to the children and their parents to allow these gifts to develop , then perhaps we would be spared the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's blindness , deafness or other disability at whatever cost to themselves , their families and friends . |
| 11 | So you see , in schools like that we would never go uniformed and we would have to discontinue visiting those schools as we would be jeopardizing the children and teachers . |
| 12 | ( Mind you , if you had extrapolated the trend of Dixons sales in the mid-80s , you would have concluded that by the year 2020 we would be spending every penny of our income on consumer electronics . ) |
| 13 | I suppose I was surprised , maybe even a bit shocked , as I had assumed we would be spending the holiday together , laughing and drinking . |
| 14 | ‘ But if we have our way , we would be playing the bulk of our home games on a Friday evening , when they do not clash with either Liverpool or Everton . |
| 15 | I can certainly confirm to my hon. Friend that when I met President Landsbergis yesterday I was able to indicate that we would be returning the gold . |