Example sentences of "would [be] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also declared he would be taking a two- month break from the game , as has Ian Woosnam . |
| 2 | Getting their hands on their own trains might seem attractive , but any manager tempted would be taking a big risk . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He would be sacrificing a rich industrial world , a bastion of the human Imperium . |
| 10 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 11 | A delighted Mr Guest said after the hearing at the Justiciary Appeal Court that in addition to the expenses of the case , he would be seeking a five-figure sum in damages . |
| 12 | Assuming a fair wind on major infrastructure , access , and drainage , it is unlikely that a new settlement would be producing a significant group of housings until somewhere around , at the very best , end ninety six into the of ninety seven period , in that context , what is happening in that short intervening period , assuming certain planning guidance comes forward to help that intervening period , and will that new settlement actually be built out prior to two prior to two thousand and six , will the fourteen hundred dwellings be built in that period , question mark , probably not , it will lap over , therefore in that context of a gap at the beginning , and a potential overlap at the end , it is very important again to revisit the peripheral land issue . |
| 13 | He knew he ought to feel guilty about Cora-Beth , to whom he had not yet written the promised letter , but with a telegram already despatched to Mrs Appleby , advising her of his visit and that he would be bringing a young lady , he told himself that it was too late to change the arrangement . |
| 14 | ‘ If you went to a summer party in 1970 , ’ said Joanne Brogden , Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art , ‘ you could guarantee that most women would be wearing a long ‘ Laura Ashley ’ skirt or dress . |
| 15 | If any person had the authority to be in the vicinity he would be wearing a high visibility vest , as laid down in the Railway Regulations , it would be madness not to do so . |
| 16 | But , although eyebrows were raised in April at the unexpected announcement that DG would be axing a further 1,000 jobs , reducing the total headcount to just over 7,000 , from 17,700 a few years ago , Skates maintains that these cuts — 600 to 700 of which have already been effected — would have been implemented regardless of the company 's financial performance . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind that she would be eating a main meal that evening , Fabia ordered an omelette and salad , and soon discovered that once Lubor had settled down from his initial opportunistic manner he was quite a pleasant lunchtime companion . |
| 18 | For example , if the bid-price were £95 for a Bill with a face value of £100 , the government would be paying a 3-monthly interest rate of about 5 per cent ; if the bid-price rose to £98 , the 3-monthly interest rate would fall to about 2 per cent . |
| 19 | Failure to support French policy in Indo-China would have the effect of contributing to the defeat of US aims in Europe and , applying the practical test of probability of success , ‘ the US would be backing a determined protagonist in this venture … |
| 20 | We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge . |
| 21 | He says you 're expecting him , that you were informed he would be coming a few months ago . |
| 22 | The sitting-room , then ; he would be having a last brandy in the sitting-room … |
| 23 | He expected to be exhausted later in an investigation when he would be working a sixteen-hour day , but this early heaviness , the feeling that he was already spent in mind and body was new to him . |
| 24 | In giving patronage to Namibia 's artists , the media would be fostering a vital symbiotic relationship between media practitioners and culture creators , the two social groups which should be the critics of the nation 's political and socio-economic life and the conscience of our society . |
| 25 | In giving patronage to Namibia 's artists , the media would be fostering a vital symbiotic relationship between media practitioners and culture creators , the two social groups which should be the critics of the nation 's political and socio-economic life and the conscience of our society . |
| 26 | You might think that anyone connected with Polly Peck would be keeping a low profile these days . |
| 27 | She had been a fool not to anticipate that a guard would be keeping a hidden watch on fitzAlan 's door . |
| 28 | She would be keeping a tight hold on her feelings from now on . |
| 29 | I knew Dawn 's talons would be finding a good grip on his scalp . |
| 30 | However , if the landowner threatens you with a firearm , it is comforting to know that he or she would be committing a criminal offence . |