Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |
| 2 | In July 1337 , after a series of negotiations with the wool merchants , the king obtained an agreement under which a select group of wealthy merchants would be empowered to buy up and export 30,000 sacks of wool . |
| 3 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 4 | Those letters would be bound to point out to Gina how badly she 'd treated him , telling her to reform and to save her marriage if they were religious , or else saying that she deserved it if he got someone else . |
| 5 | Often , one would be trained to carry out chores normally done by a kitchen maid . |
| 6 | The winner would be asked to draw up a specification for the mainframe by the end of the year , at which time two local partners would be chosen to design and build it . |
| 7 | Hotel staff would be asked to note down , on customised documents , their comments on students ' speed , accuracy , stamina , adaptability and demeanour , and the students themselves would contribute to their record of achievement , commenting on what they found hard , different from college , enjoyable or tedious . |
| 8 | Mr Keating said a committee would be asked to work out how an Australian head of state could be chosen without changing the country 's parliamentary system . |
| 9 | Clients who rang in during telephone bingo would be kept hanging on indefinitely . |
| 10 | This must have been agreed , as on 22 February , Major-General Galloway of MEHQ wrote to Eighth Army Headquarters to inform them that after the next series of operations , L Detachment would be withdrawn to re-form up to strength and be retrained as a parachute unit . |
| 11 | Thereafter , a general election would take place and the legislators would be invited to draw up a new constitution on Dominion lines . |
| 12 | The process by which two clubs would be invited to take up full membership of the Scottish League would be decided after the EGM . |
| 13 | If push ever did come again to shove , American muscles would be needed to push back . |
| 14 | So Hinkley C and two further stations would be needed to make up the shortfall . |
| 15 | And there was no way of getting a message out to say I could n't get out , so she would be left hanging about waiting hopefully . |
| 16 | In the absence of charters , the new colonies on the south shore devised constitutions of their own : Connecticut 's Foundations in 1639 were primarily concerned to bring a group of separate towns , each with a rural hinterland , together as one colony with a congregational approach to religion which would avoid the dangers of conflict and division , while the Constitution of Rhode Island , established in 1643 , took a long step further towards complete commitment to the view that no particular variety of religion would be given a special position and that everybody would be allowed to carry on worship freely . |
| 17 | These included a guarantee of safety for the leaders of the opposition parties , and assurances that the commission of enquiry into the December killing would be allowed to carry out its work independently . |
| 18 | New investors would be allowed to set up oil refineries without government permission . |
| 19 | In addition to their government work , they would be allowed to set up commercial supply links . |
| 20 | Locals predicted that it would be allowed to fall down and then the property developing Mafia would move in and build a housing estate on the fourteen acres , by means of a considerable backhander to the Council . |
| 21 | The European Council would give guidance to this set-up for ‘ inter-governmental co-operation ’ and , as with ‘ European Political Co-operation ’ in foreign policy , the commission would be allowed to sit in . |
| 22 | The proposal dictates that only the most severely disabled drivers would be allowed to drive down Skinnergate and High Row between 10.30am and 4pm . |
| 23 | The 1959 Defence White Paper announced that the Army would be allowed to recruit up to a ceiling of 180,000 ‘ to ensure that its strength shall not fall below the planned figure of 165,000 ’ — a lame excuse since this requirement was just as valid in 1957 . |
| 24 | Holders of foreign exchange would be allowed to change up to 60 per cent of their foreign currency at market rates , with only 40 per cent subject to the official exchange rate . |
| 25 | Terry Mulloy , chairman of the governors , who has a five-year-old son at Lady Jane Grey , says that if children , while being taught reading in a small group , got bored they would be allowed to wander off and do something else . |
| 26 | Members of the country 's 2,800 land reform co-operatives would be allowed to break up their farms and receive individual , negotiable shareholdings . |
| 27 | The start of the game , with Scotland camped in Malta 's half , appeared to imply that the night would be spent wearing down a Maltese defence which used Buttigieg as a sweeper behind four other bodies . |
| 28 | At other times , the demands of his body clock and society coincided but then much of his time would be spent catching up on lost sleep . |
| 29 | Dr Owen said any delegation sent to meet Mr Redwood would be briefed to spell out the village 's disappointment and dissatisfaction with the WO bypass plans . |
| 30 | That would leave Gerry Creaney up front on his own although Paul Byrne would be expected to push up wide on the right . |