Example sentences of "would [adv] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 and it happened so regularly all the yards being closed and you 'd just be laid off and no
2 However , for orbits whose lengths were not a whole number of wavelengths , each wave crest would eventually be canceled out by a trough as the electrons went round ; these orbits would not be allowed .
3 She would rather be slobbered over by the randiest male than be touched in that way by her own sex .
4 The immediate ‘ bone ’ offered to Mrs Castle was the phasing out of 1,000 pay beds , but that thereafter further pay beds would only be phased out on the direction of the newly established board , with a number of criteria required to justify the release of additional beds : the principal one being the establishment of an alternative source of private beds in the locality of change .
5 It was an unusually quiet night , and Jack had been called in earlier and had stayed not out of necessity but because , as he said , if he went home he would only be called out again .
6 Such a transfer could and would only be brought about by a bourgeois-democratic revolution .
7 The boys queued in sets of five outside the headmaster 's room , each clutching his signed slip and praying he would not be singled out for special treatment .
8 An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year .
9 The Thai Deputy Prime Minister , Gen. Thienchai Sirisamphan , announced on Oct. 9 that the two hijackers would be tried in Thailand and would not be sent back to Myanma .
10 This time , Mr Kaifu was convinced , the Americans would not be shut up with a promise here , a concession there .
11 Jay would not be shut out and from what she could tell , Lucy did n't want to shut her out .
12 I wonder if ‘ name and address supplied ’ would volunteer to be chased five miles by an angry mob being happy in the knowledge that when caught he or she would not be beaten up but dispatched humanely ?
13 Without the INKEY(O) command at the end of the program line , print echo would not be turned on until the program attempted to read from the keyboard or the program terminated and BBCBASIC(Z80) returned to the immediate mode .
14 Two days after insisting he would not be tempted out of international retirement , Kriss Akabusi was controversially named for the 400m hurdles , ahead of the new British champion Gary Cadogan .
15 He added that a ban , like those seen during dry spells in recent years , would not be ruled out if the situation became extreme .
16 The introduction of charges reneges on ministerial assurances given during the passage of the 1986 Agriculture Act that the conservation service would not be cut back and would remain free .
17 The Court had in mind information regarding when and by whom the information was received , the fact that distribution lists are maintained separately from the messages sent and so would not be printed out , unless specified , on the paper copy .
18 He was a dreamer , dithering and peaceable : Ireland would not be saved by such as he .
19 Melissa was not given to premonition but the fear that something had happened to Sybil had taken hold and would not be shaken off .
20 Edward Balliol would not be couched down there , but upstairs in one of the principal bedchambers , for sure .
21 He desperately tried to pull strings with people he knew in Parma so that he would not be called up , but eventually he had to go .
22 The two plots were also very predictable , because we all knew that Carrie would not be accepted back into society just from going to the ball .
23 Antonio Cellini would not be put off so easily .
24 Tim would not be put off .
25 She suspected that the good doctor might be laying it on a little thick , but she would not be put off , and said in her stiffest voice , ‘ Yes , I understand all that , and I am prepared to work hard , ’ and she added for good measure , ‘ You need not worry about followers .
26 But she would not be put down ; she would not .
27 Only when , in April , Elizabeth made it clear that he was the one Marian exile who would not be welcomed back to England did he accept the inevitable and come to Scotland .
28 But the expectation would not be driven out … and yet Harrison was a fine man and there was something about his miserably presented directness which made her want to scoop him up .
29 This would mean that safety procedures would not be carried out and all the nation 's pits might have to be scrapped in a mass act of collective suicide .
30 Without them , many of today 's sophisticated techniques would not be carried out , particularly in the vital field of Blood Transfusion .
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