Example sentences of "would [adv] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | INSET staff would presumably be in a good position to carry out this role . |
| 2 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 3 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 4 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 5 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |
| 6 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 7 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 8 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 9 | If the Christians obtained their enlarged Lebanon , they would only be in a small majority over the Sunni and Shia Muslims . |
| 10 | Presumably we would only be in a position to be considering an investigator if both , we had a erm a greater number of complaints from around the Commission coming into York , and i and further members of staff were to leave . |
| 11 | It was also announced that ambassadors ' postings would henceforth be for a maximum of five years , and that their appointments would be approved by the council of USSR and republican foreign ministers . |
| 12 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 13 | The fact that he forbade an official biography — as early as 1925 , he had decided that he did not want one — has suggested to many people that such a biography would necessarily be of a scandalous nature . |
| 14 | I assured myself that it would be only temporary and I would soon be in a flat again , but ‘ temporary ’ turned out to be five years . |
| 15 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 16 | In that case , the universe would already be in a state of complete disorder , so disorder could not increase with time . |
| 17 | No doubt my loved ones are already laughing heartily at the thought that I could have anything useful to say to a secretary of state , and two years ago I too would have discounted the idea that a politically damp , small ‘ c ’ conservative would ever be in a position to offer advice on competition and free markets to a Tory government . |
| 18 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |
| 19 | In this case , the spread of the habit would still be by a non-genetic learning process , but not by imitation . |
| 20 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 21 | Compared to other forms of entertainment in London , shows in the West End , Covent Garden , and even ordinary club football fixtures , the prices would probably be on a par . |
| 22 | If that failed , the next move would probably be to a Federal penitentiary where a fight in the yard or a sudden bout of pneumonia would secure his silence for good . |
| 23 | If they were , say , a million times more common than this , then the nearest black hole to us would probably be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers , or about as far away as Pluto , the farthest known planet . |
| 24 | At early times the universe would probably be in a disordered state . |
| 25 | These would often be of a highly important and sensitive nature , transcending the traditional rock interview . |
| 26 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 27 | The supervisor can see from the depth gauge that they have made a seal , and contact between bell and supervisor would then be via a through water communications system . |
| 28 | Although these mechanisms may provide short-term micro-level benefits , they do not encourage the development of an independent organisation with its own ideology , which would then be in a position to spearhead change to bring about real and long-lasting improvements . |
| 29 | Such schools , claimed Bray , rather hopefully , would then be in a position to train ‘ the man in the interests of the community and in the interests of the trade . ’ |
| 30 | The team member from department A may be team leader ( eg. if A was the Production Department , and its member was able to gain an operational overview of the team 's activities ) : he would then be in a subordinate position in the organisation chart to the Head of Department B but his superior within the project team . |