Example sentences of "would be [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 2 | It may seem that the movement just discernible towards " spirituality " would be wholly to the benefit of religion , yet it is not necessarily so . |
| 3 | Prices vary enormously for group holidays but a typical price would be somewhere in the region of £25 per person per day . |
| 4 | The telephone number would be somewhere in the house and in the morning Alain would be at his office and not likely to answer the phone . |
| 5 | So what we say is that if you took all of our products all our ads they would be somewhere in the region of six hundred pounds . |
| 6 | would be somewhere in the region of a hundred and fifteen pounds . |
| 7 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 8 | Once on board that plane they would be strictly at the mercy of the count . |
| 9 | Closer to home we have to decide whether , for example , to recognise that an increase in food prices imposed as a result of welfare standards demanded by the middle classes would be rather like the poll tax . |
| 10 | As well as giving her cause to be anxious about Rosemary — whose parents would make life most uncomfortable for her if the rumours circulating the village ever reached them — it was a blow to know that Sebastian would be away for the rest of the year . |
| 11 | There would be a lot of damage and a few people would get hurt , but the lads would be away by the time the police could get round to the place . |
| 12 | Raybestos Manhattan described the NIOSH recommendations as ‘ so extreme as to be totally unrealistic and unpracticable ’ in its 1976 annual report , and suggested Raybestos Manhattan 's future strategic direction would be away from the use of asbestos in friction products : |
| 13 | A strategic site if it comes forward would be away from the main urban areas and would only be available for developments that could not otherwise take place on the I five allocations . |
| 14 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 15 | At the rime of bringing up a young family it might be expected that the woman 's role would be primarily in the home . |
| 16 | I thought in my ignorance that Lorcomb would be just down the road from Norwich ; when I discovered that it was an hour 's drive I persuaded the colonel to rent me his house . ’ |
| 17 | She would be just like the fairy dancers they had seen on the stage , and her feet would n't look big and flat in those shoes because they had lovely pointy toes , and little pom-poms on them . |
| 18 | That would be just like the old days . |
| 19 | My schoolboy physics reminded me that the sun would be well below the magic 42 ° , the limit of its elevation that will create — from the waterfall 's mist — a single refraction rainbow . |
| 20 | This would be well under the cost of the facility for the authority but would encourage those who could buy their care more cheaply to do so . |
| 21 | Ealing social services informed Hackney social workers and the health visitor that the family would be temporarily in the borough . |
| 22 | The amount of any such compensation would be entirely at the discretion Or the Board . |
| 23 | At the in house research stage all the information would be entirely within the institution/company concerned . |
| 24 | England was now at war with Hitler 's Germany , and would be so for the next six years . |
| 25 | detect a bit of a question mark and the end of er sorry er er doubting tone as to in my voice that I 'm not sure that that would be so in the decade ahead . |
| 26 | Yet none of them in the triple realms of Theatre , Television and Film would be anywhere without the Designer . |
| 27 | Charlie would be home towards the end of the week . |
| 28 | Charlie would be home towards the end of the week … . |
| 29 | I did n't answer the letter , but just counted the days and the hours until he would be home for the holidays ; they seemed interminable . |
| 30 | ‘ Lord willing , ’ Shultz would sign on to the operation ; ‘ with the grace of God ’ the hostages would be home by the summer . |