Example sentences of "would be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maurin would be at the gallery any other time she wanted him . |
| 2 | A person of ‘ quality ’ — such as a member of the landed gentry or the clergy — would be at the top of their scale , commanding a funeral similar to that organized by the College of Arms for a knight bachelor , with paupers and wayfarers coming in at the bottom . |
| 3 | She had one advantage over him ; he had only a general idea of which shops would interest Garry and his ‘ Mrs Smith ’ , but Claudia knew Dana would make straight for the most exclusive dress shops , and luckily Claudia had a very good idea which one would be at the top of her list . |
| 4 | Erm the views of the er of the subcommittee are that that this does appear to be er perhaps a practical solution er and at the moment , er we are looking to erm make some of the spaces , certainly in the Church Street car park erm short term , I E two hours , certainly so the people who are who are making shopping visits , or visits to the banks et cetera would get the lower car park and the the people who are staying for a longer time would be at the top . |
| 5 | This relates to the middle-management area of decision and control which would be at the head of department and head of year level in a comprehensive school or the allowance holders in a primary school . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 7 | After visiting Bruce Hutchison , the next stop would be at the home of Mrs Nellie McClung whose books ‘ Clearing in the West ’ and ‘ The Stream Runs Fast ’ had impressed me as a youth . |
| 8 | In response to a further telephone call from the police station at 1.17 a.m. the ambulance services said that an ambulance would be at the scene in five to seven minutes . |
| 9 | In later years he would be at the centre oftwo scandalous court cases … |
| 10 | Traders say they were promised that Merchants Quay would be at the centre of a thriving complex of shops , restaurants and homes , but now they 're surrounded by offices , and cut off from customers . |
| 11 | She had half hoped he would be at the station but there was no sign of him . |
| 12 | She would be at the station just in time to catch the train . |
| 13 | Within two or three years , the majority of a grafted vine 's network would be dependent not upon the grafted roots , but upon the regenerated root system of the producing vine and as such would be at the mercy of phylloxera . |
| 14 | ‘ And Fenella would be at the mercy of Goibniu and the rest . |
| 15 | You would be at the mercy of the hall 's acoustics and ideally you would need to practise a bit beforehand . |
| 16 | Who would be at the shoot then ? |
| 17 | Sarah would be at the Polytechnic and the children at school , but what about Peter Fleming ? |
| 18 | But the corporation says that 5000 jobs could be created by the scheme , although few of them would be at the airport itself . |
| 19 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 20 | He knew by then that he would kill her , because when his telephone rang Edouard said she would be at the museum . |
| 21 | Emily smiled , her aunt could be a holy terror but tonight she would be on her best behaviour because the élite of the Swansea gentry would be at the Race Ball and Aunt Sophie had not found herself invited into the social circles lately , not since Craig 's arrest . |
| 22 | For an endothermic reaction , the datum line would be at the bottom . |
| 23 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 24 | Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind . |
| 25 | Now , on top of everything else , she looked like something the cat had dragged in , and she had n't even brought a change of clothes with her , having planned to return to the Sheffield hotel to collect her luggage and settle her bill at a time when the actors would be at the theatre . |
| 26 | For example , in figure 2.1 the cursor would be at the foot of the list of options and would require only one user input , but other pages may contain more fields and require more information . |
| 27 | All his friends would be at the Villa Battista to see him and Constance for themselves . |
| 28 | Rebecca would be at the rehearsal of course . |
| 29 | Henceforth ‘ an enduring commitment to democracy and human rights ’ would be at the heart of America 's relations with Africa . |
| 30 | Had not the Prime Minister himself said , and here I quote : ‘ We would be at the heart of Europe . ’ |