Example sentences of "[verb] would [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result they would accord the lower orders some respect and the arrogance which high status tends to encourage would be tempered with a degree of humility . |
| 2 | The stimulus to demand would be felt during a period of expansion and so would exacerbate any inflationary pressures which might be building up . |
| 3 | : The decision by the Attorney General not to prosecute would be construed as a vindication of the legality of the ‘ arrest ambush ’ at William Black 's cottage . |
| 4 | But er , the only , the only , yes , no the only other thing I would of said that you could of perhaps done would be go to a Local Authority ombudsman |
| 5 | These tracts did in part reflect a radical Whig philosophy : for example , the connection was made between a standing army in peacetime and absolutism , and it was also suggested that the right to resist would be nullified by a standing army . |
| 6 | Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells . |
| 7 | I should like to speak longer , because the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) spoke about the losses that he envisages would be incurred by the development of the station at King 's Cross , and if I had the time I should love to expand on the economic benefits that could be achieved in employment terms , the environmental benefits that would accrue to the area and the safety benefits that would be brought about by the Fennell provisions in the Bill . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 9 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 10 | The way the universe would begin would be determined by the laws of science . |
| 11 | Equally , in construing a rent review clause , the court has been aided by a consideration of valuation methods which the parties must have envisaged would be applied at the review date ( Pivot Properties v Secretary of State for the Environment ( 1980 ) 41 P & CR 248 ) . |
| 12 | A simultaneous assault would be made by 4000 of the army which had taken Gosport , while the boats landing on Portsea Island would return to the Isle of Wight to bring the total force up to 20,000 men , and eventually , for the siege of Portsmouth , to 30,000 , an operation de la Rousselière predicted would be completed in a week . |
| 13 | It is suggested that an active policy to gain consent and then disclose would be supported by the law . |
| 14 | The peace that the Old World could not keep would be enforced by the New World . |
| 15 | In Cheney v Conn [ 1968 ] 1 All ER 779 , a taxpayer challenged an assessment of income tax made under the Finance Act 1964 on the ground that part of the money raised would be used for the manufacture of nuclear weapons contrary to a treaty , the Geneva Convention , to which the United Kingdom was party . |
| 16 | Thus printing would be controlled by a print server ; a file server would control loading and saving files . |
| 17 | All we would need to do would be to chop off the head of the price raisers . |
| 18 | It seems likely that the files of cases which had ‘ no further action ’ or were cautioned would be returned to the police quickly , so we inferred that those cases not followed-up had been tried in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 19 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 20 | Mr justifies abandoning the approach in and on the basis that the decision was arrived at in a different housing market , when it was reasonable to conclude that the plaintiff 's loss of interest on the capital employed would be exceeded by the increase in the value of the property . |
| 21 | But Mr Hunt told the conference that , instead of phasing the system out over four years , the cross-subsidy from gainers to high-spending areas which lose would be abolished after the first year . |
| 22 | In later press interviews both men promised to respect the results of future multiparty elections , which Chissano expected would be held within a year . |
| 23 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 24 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 25 | In America , the politicians involved would be dragged before a Congressional committee . |
| 26 | From what we know of primitive races it is highly probable that the incentive for producing these paintings was magical , the object being to fix in paint on the wall or ceiling of a cave an event — usually the slaying of an animal — which it was hoped would be effected in the future elsewhere . |
| 27 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 28 | It was a vow Isabel knew would be kept for the rest of their lives . |
| 29 | Critically , on July 27 , 1990 , six days before the invasion , ministers endorsed an export order for machine tool technology they knew would be used in a missile project . |
| 30 | He believed , however , that these difficulties would vanish when the ‘ language of books ’ and the ‘ language of men ’ became much more alike — a process which he thought would be hastened by the practice of dictating instead of writing ( Huey , 1908 ) . |