Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 2 | When Margaret Hughes arrived at court in Leominster she knew there was a chance she 'd be sent to prison . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd likely walk free and she 'd be sent to gaol for being a whore . |
| 4 | He 'd be driven to Dracon which is a complex of well-guarded buildings off what they used to call Space Highway … ’ |
| 5 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 6 | He was a Valium addict who would try anything to obtain a supply of the drug — including pretending to overdose himself so he would be referred to psychiatry . |
| 7 | Electronic gear would be exposed to radio waves at frequencies between 27 and 500 MHz , depending on where it is to be installed . |
| 8 | On the other runs the final path length was slightly higher , with the maximum value over all runs of 7392 , and with errors in the probe orders being confined to the centromeres of one or both of chromosomes I and II ( e.g. , one half of chromosome 2 would be joined to chromosome III ) . |
| 9 | He evidently hoped that he would be recalled to power by popular acclamation and that the parties would be unable to work without him . |
| 10 | Gloria was taking good care that she and Matthew would be seen to advantage , making straight for the centre of the group . |
| 11 | The effects of electrical discharges on glass fibre and carbon fibre structures are uncertain , but it is clear that any moisture in the material would be turned to steam by a flash and would certainly cause delamination and very expensive damage . |
| 12 | A payment of interest , however , would be charged to corporation tax in the recipient 's hands and would attract a liability to pay ACT if it is then distributed to the recipient 's own shareholders . |
| 13 | As John Maynard-Smith knows , I 've always been , in a less expert way than he , a Darwinist and I 've always felt , and you exemplified that tonight , I think , John , the beauty if the situation was that these profound theories corresponded with what a man of good sense , rationality , unswayed by prejudice and emotion , would be bound to belief when faced with the evidence . |
| 14 | Initially the administration would be asked to fork out about $325 million per year for Landsat and weather information . |
| 15 | In some countries in the world you would be stoned to death . |
| 16 | Andreotti promised on April 17 that draft legislation allowing certain public-sector enterprises to offer shares would be presented to parliament within 30 days . |
| 17 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 18 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today . |
| 19 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 20 | The four hunger strikers decided to end their protest on Nov. 13 after the government announced that a bill would be presented to Congress to speed up the judicial processing of their cases . |
| 21 | The January 1983 Medau News would contain an article explaining the new system to all and a letter would be sent to class secretaries ( some of whom may have changed since Sept. ) asking again for their help in encouraging membership amongst class members . |
| 22 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 23 | ‘ Under Labour policy those rights would be given to part time workers from day one , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 24 | On May 31 the EPLF vice-chairman Tamirat Laynie told relief officials at a meeting in Addis Ababa that priority would be given to relief operations : the port of Assab had been reopened by agreement with the EPLF and all relief agencies should within a week submit details of their future projects , he said . |
| 25 | The Ferrars also gave considerable attention to planning a college , intended to become the first seat of higher education in North America , as well as a school for Indians , whom it was hoped would be converted to Christianity . |
| 26 | The United States wished to secure a transitional period in which limited American military and economic aid would be extended to south Korea in the hope that the communists would be kept at bay , at least for a decent interval . |
| 27 | You will recall the threat that CCT would be extended to Engineering Services in 1994/95 . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) The Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Bill would enable 300,000 black householders to convert their existing 99-year leases to full ownership of their homes , and would set up a single property register , while government land loaned to rural tribes for communal farming would be transferred to ownership by those tribes . |
| 29 | About 150 patients , the remainder inhabiting Banstead , would be transferred to community hospitals and hostels in London . |
| 30 | Conable said that Mexico would be eligible for further loans worth $3,000 million in 1990 , two-thirds of which would be devoted to debt reduction . |