Example sentences of "would be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 2 | Well there would be a seat they would be facing each other in their seats . |
| 3 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 4 | Even without these dramas in the Gulf and the Soviet Union , America would be facing big economic risks in 1991 . |
| 5 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 6 | Penny Black would be feeding more statistics on wife-beating in the West Midlands into her data-base , and Robyn 's mother would be giving a coffee morning for some charitable cause in her Liberty-curtained lounge with a view of the sea . |
| 7 | Mr Allan Edwards , director of the Anglers Co-operative Association , would be opposing all applications to abstract more water from the chalk streams of southern Yorkshire , which are famous for their wild trout . |
| 8 | Er a specific on only thing that might have been I think was really , erm the erm the concern that some people expect erm are for rural areas , whether there was going t there were going to be con whether things were going to be spread thinner on the ground in rural areas , particularly sort of transport costs , and of course erm there 's one , but nevertheless , the concern that that would be underlying that and the erm the erm the the rural community |
| 9 | Albert had said Mr Evans would be flaming mad when he heard about Mrs Gotobed 's Will and it seemed Albert was right . |
| 10 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |
| 11 | This was my environment , these were my people , and soon I would be leaving all this behind . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that Boris Yeltsin would be implementing those reforms if we had jumped the gun , as the Opposition wanted . |
| 13 | But there would be i i in terms of a communist strategy , in terms of an ideology there would be nothing within the countryside which would be promoting that movement towards socialism , that , that change through class conflict would there ? |
| 14 | It seems to me that all that we would be doing would be substituting one area for another in effect in terms of where that development is attracted from . |
| 15 | From now on , she told Yeats , romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment . |
| 16 | On the wave of redundancies which has hit London hard since Christmas , Mr Ainslie noted that sufficient cost-cutting had now been achieved but that Mrs Brooks would be taking that area in hand . |
| 17 | I wonder whether , if Labour Members present were Members not of this but of a similar Parliament in an eastern European country or in Russia , they would be taking this attitude . |
| 18 | ‘ It would be courting double standards to remove that status from Vic Williams ’ , she said . |
| 19 | If I was Peter Reid , I would be screaming blue murder to get this player . ’ |
| 20 | It was a good fuck , but hurried , as Hairy Back would be getting anxious . |
| 21 | For example , a firm with two partners would be getting 100 per cent attendance : a firm with eight only 20 per cent [ sic ] . |
| 22 | Then I remembered they would be getting ready for the Roman banquet later on in the evening . |
| 23 | In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did |
| 24 | She straightened her shoulders , perhaps she had done enough for today , mam would be getting restless wanting a bit of attention after her long day spent mostly alone . |
| 25 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 26 | It would be getting light as I arrived . |
| 27 | But the chick may not remember these as three separate items ; instead , and more likely , it will adopt a different , and indeed more rational , strategy , and generalize along the lines that ‘ all objects of a certain size , irrespective of colour , are likely to taste bitter and should be avoided ’ ; that is , it would be remembering one item , not three . |
| 28 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I wonder , now , ’ said Cadfael , studying her thin , bright , resolute face , ‘ whether you would be wanting that young man for yourself , or is this pure disinterested kindness ? ’ |
| 30 | First established as a concept by the Catalan artist in 1984 when he announced that he would be donating 300 paintings and 3000 graphic works to the city of Barcelona , the Fundació was the subject of protracted negotiations with the local autonomous government and the Ministry of Culture in Madrid , which finally resulted in a handsome level of funding for building in which to house them . |