Example sentences of "would be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Under the surface , just how much of the Sun 's object work is done in-house is apparently causing some consternation amongst some third party players who were under the impression that they 'd be getting a bigger slice of the development cake . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you told me you 'd be getting a hundred guineas a time if you were a television personality , John ? ’ said Bob . |
| 3 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
| 4 | She 'd be expecting a full report on Pierremont House and the dear little village , so quiet , so tasteful . |
| 5 | We 'd be fightin' a never-ending rearguard battle with those guys . |
| 6 | ‘ If you were going to use this , ’ Court observed , ‘ we 'd be having a different sort of conversation . ’ |
| 7 | She would be bait , Zeno would be drawn , then Pascoe would appear with the gun and they 'd be asking a few hard questions . |
| 8 | If Vadinamia had the Fraxillian cylinder , it looked like I 'd be making a safe and secure pick-up . |
| 9 | The first move of a Government committed to re-establishing full employment comprehensively would be to initiate a rolling programme of moving Civil Service jobs from areas of high employment , mainly in the South , to those of high unemployment , predominantly in the North . |
| 10 | One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders ' funds . |
| 11 | On the other hand , they would have been inspired by the promise that they , as loyal adherents of the Messiah , would be granted a unique recompense for their fidelity and for any suffering they had incurred . |
| 12 | The EFTA countries , the richest countries in Europe as a group , would be granted a privileged relationship in return for a full share in the burden of supporting the economic development of Eastern and Southern Europe . |
| 13 | Moreover he persuaded his father to agree that if the terms imposed on the rebels last summer were not acceptable to them now — as obviously they were not — then they would be granted a fresh hearing in the King 's court . |
| 14 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 15 | One possible remedy would be to employ a time-varying parameter technique in estimation as in Browne and McNellis ( 1990 ) . |
| 16 | This would be to substitute a judicial view as to , for example , the most appropriate way in which to allocate aid , or to disburse licences , for that of the public body . |
| 17 | He also declared he would be taking a two- month break from the game , as has Ian Woosnam . |
| 18 | Getting their hands on their own trains might seem attractive , but any manager tempted would be taking a big risk . |
| 19 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 20 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 21 | The Zimbabwean Defence Minister , Moven Mahachi , reportedly announced in Harare on Sept. 7 that Zimbabwe would be sending a small number of military officers to Rwanda to join peace monitors invited by the UN and the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) . |
| 22 | When these targets had been achieved , with increased skill and investment levels showing up in higher productivity , the proposal would be to implement a higher national minimum wage for all workers , aiming for 60 per cent of average earnings over the following five years . |
| 23 | In York in the 1930s , Seebohm Rowntree found many older women would be earning a few pence , or gifts in kind ‘ for rendering small services . |
| 24 | One possibility would be to evolve a qualified defence of killing under extreme emotional disturbance , following the lead of the Model Penal Code . |
| 25 | Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter . |
| 26 | Not necessarily all of the them , but most of them , that would leave the straight jurisdictionals and the clear no hopers , maybe the investigators would be getting a few of the ones that otherwise ideally they should n't but |
| 27 | In November 1989 it was announced that the Falkland Islands Company ( now owned by Anglo United , a UK-based mining and fuel distribution group which had taken over Coalite , the Falkland Islands Company 's existing owner , in August 1989 ) would be appointing a chief executive who would be based for the first time on the islands themselves . |
| 28 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
| 29 | For example a useful practical derived test of the properties of leather in shoes would be to flex a real shoe in a test machine to determine the relation between loads and displacements relevant to the wearer . |
| 30 | He would be sacrificing a rich industrial world , a bastion of the human Imperium . |