Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a view which no doubt would be defended with equal firmness at Horbury which lays particular stress on the personal touch . |
| 2 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 3 | And as for defence , ’ he went on , ‘ Britain would be defended by arms manufactured in Germany or France just as well as by arms manufactured in Britain , if this were necessary for good economic reasons . ’ |
| 4 | Lord Aldington , who lives at Knoll Farm , Aldington , Ashford , Kent , is claiming libel damages over allegations in a pamphlet that he arranged the repatriation of around 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs , knowing they would be massacred on their return . |
| 5 | He feared that shorelines would be repolluted with every storm for months to come . |
| 6 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 7 | The chaos would be compounded by some schools claiming grant-maintained status . |
| 8 | How our various nuclear liabilities would be handled under privatisation . |
| 9 | It remains to be seen whether the changes were that dramatic , but the new dispensation was certainly to mean that sociological themes and realism generally would be handled with more care . |
| 10 | A meeting of ministers from the 16 German Länder in Dresden on Dec. 14 , 1990 , discussed the possible imposition of a quota for Soviet Jewish immigrants , but on Jan. 9 , 1991 , Wolfgang Schäuble , the German Interior Minster , announced that they would be handled on a " generous case-by-case basis " . |
| 11 | But , as things transpired , it was Nation 's eventual storyline , initially titled ‘ The Mutants ’ that was to set the seal on the way the science fiction stories would be handled within Doctor Who 's structure . |
| 12 | It had been decided sherry would be handled by McGee , supper by them both , port by McGee and coffee by them both . |
| 13 | At the same meeting an asylum convention was signed by all the members except Denmark under which each asylum case would be handled by only one member-state and thereby end the so-called " orbiting " of refugees from one country to another . |
| 14 | De Klerk also ordered the dismantling of the SSC secretariat , whose functions would be handled by a Cabinet committee for security matters . |
| 15 | Under new disputes procedures , ( i ) competition cases would be handled by the EC Commission and the ECJ if they involved companies from both the EC and EFTA ( and by EFTA only if they concerned only EFTA companies ) ; ( ii ) disagreements over the operation of the EEA would go to a joint EEA political committee , with either party having the right to seek binding arbitration if the issue were unresolved ; and ( iii ) the ECJ would have sole powers to rule on the interpretation of EEA laws , while EFTA courts would give their " best endeavours " to comply with such rulings . |
| 16 | Appeals would be handled by military courts that are independent of government influence , Gad Ben-Ami , spokesman for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , said after a Christopher-Rabin meeting . |
| 17 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 18 | She demanded guarantees before aid would be resumed following the refusal by Bosnian Serbs to allow convoys to reach isolated towns in eastern Bosnia . |
| 19 | The Earl announced that unless the weather deteriorated again , the Tournament would be resumed on the Friday morning and all of the participants spent Thursday drying out and preparing their costumes . |
| 20 | Also on March 2 Rodríguez announced that diplomatic relations would be resumed with Nicaragua following the inauguration on April 25 of President-elect Violeta Chamorro [ see p. 37370 ] . |
| 21 | It was hoped , however , that the worst would be over once conflict in the Gulf had been resolved ; normal trading , people assumed , would be resumed in the summer of 1991 . |
| 22 | It was anticipated , therefore , that the Premiers ' talks — three sessions of which had been held since September 1990 — would be resumed in April or May . |
| 23 | This would mean that in the absence of clear words , the terms of the hypothetical letting would be dictated by the market at the review date , and not by the terms of the lease . |
| 24 | The level of supplementary allocations would be dictated by the success of councils in obtaining grant from the various EC programmes operating in Scotland . |
| 25 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 26 | He assured the Manager that all was well and that his certificate would be posted without delay , so the public service commenced later the same day , thus the whole South Metropolitan system was opened in 1906 , making 13.36 route miles . |
| 27 | British detectives would be posted to Miami , Florida , where the FBI 's Caribbean fraud team would use their considerable resources to support them . |
| 28 | One thousand police would be posted to the suburbs that summer and 12 more " houses of justice " would be built as centres for dispute settlement and advisory services . |
| 29 | One company threatened that replies from MPs to their standard letter would be posted on surgery notice-boards in their constituencies . |
| 30 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |