Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melissa slipped indoors to wash her face and hands ; it was important to appear normal , as any hint of agitation would be pounced on by Iris and lead to a cross-examination . |
| 2 | The Record of Understanding identified 24 migrant worker hostels which would be fenced off by Nov. 15 . |
| 3 | And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court . |
| 4 | The groups would be led out by rescuers . |
| 5 | In between arriving and leaving for Castelnaudary , most people would be weeded out by the tests or fall short of the required standards . |
| 6 | The boring old unions would be pushed out by a new Rainbow Alliance of media-wise radicals , alert and campaigning on the big issues of racial and sexual discrimination , nuclear power , and protecting the environment . |
| 7 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 8 | It was agreed to tighten the Protocol so that CFC production and consumption would be phased out by the year 2000 , and that halon and ‘ other ozone depleting substances ’ should be phased out as soon as feasible . |
| 9 | The UK also announced that raw sewage dumping would be phased out by 1998 . |
| 10 | Any that might would be warned off by Australia , which takes a protective interest in its former colony . |
| 11 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 12 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 13 | The primary health care team contracted to follow set procedures for making referrals ( referrers would inform patients , all referrals would include a clear statement of urgency and would be made in writing — even ones made by telephone would be followed up by written requests ) . |
| 14 | ‘ When I said Slaven was not available I had no idea Pears would be called up by England . |
| 15 | Hundreds of workers marched on Westminster earlier this year , fearing that come privatisation , the millions in the BR pension fund would be creamed off by the new rail franchise companies . |
| 16 | Apparently he is worried that the cash from the sale of Batts would be swallowed up by ground developments . |
| 17 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 18 | There was a danger that the anti-inflation tendencies of the Bundesbank would be watered down by other European countries where control of prices was less of a priority . |
| 19 | There was a danger that the anti-inflation tendencies of the Bundesbank would be watered down by other European countries where control of prices was less of a priority . |
| 20 | Motorcycles would be kept out by barriers at each end — this is normal practice for cycle/pedestrian paths . |
| 21 | On Oct. 21 it was announced that the last of the nuclear reactors at Greifswald would be shut down by mid-December 1990 , three other reactors there having already been closed during 1990 . |
| 22 | … a charismatically endowed descendant of David whom the Jews … believed would be raised up by God to break the yoke of the heathen and to reign over a restored kingdom of Israel to which all the Jews of the Exile would return . |
| 23 | Damaged birds would be sewn up by Mother and their feathers ruffled to look nice . |
| 24 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 25 | The gravitational field of the singularity would be so strong that light could not escape from the region around it but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 26 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 27 | After that time any light emitted from the star would not be able to escape to infinity but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 28 | We would not be able to see such a star because light from its surface would not reach us ; it would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational field . |
| 29 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 30 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |