Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] would be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told to shut my mouth or there would be serious repercussions . ’ |
| 2 | The rate of value added tax ( VAT ) was to be lowered from 25 to 22 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 ; taxes on electricity and fuel for industrial use would be abolished , while the tax on carbon dioxide emissions would be increased to 0.32 kronor per kilogramme of emission except for industry where it would be 0.08 kronor per kilogramme . |
| 3 | If an upwave was due , it was inevitable that thee would be bad debts , and Money Advice would be needed to help . |
| 4 | I , I mean I , I , I w I could n't say that I would be happy being in the house all the time . |
| 5 | I sometimes think that you would be happier working somewhere else ! ’ |
| 6 | This strategy recognizes that different pollution sources have different marginal costs of control , that some can control more cheaply than others , and that there would be net savings to society if some plants reduced emission to a greater and others to a lesser extent . |
| 7 | It is unlikely that there would be strong support for interim note disclosure equivalent to that in annual accounts . |
| 8 | Throughout March and April the newspapers carried a plethora of stories suggesting either that there would be a further challenge to Mrs Thatcher when the next leadership election fell due in November , or that there would be strong pressure on her to announce her retirement before then . |
| 9 | Linking girls in with the characters of Lord of the Flies , I am sure that there would be many Ralphs , a Jack of a different nature but leading to the same results , and eventually one or two Rogers . |
| 10 | It was thought that there would be new tills and some furniture and chairs coming from CBSI , Ware . |
| 11 | Sometimes activities would be arranged jointly with other branches , so that there would be new occasions for gossip and flirting . |
| 12 | A few hours later ministers were saying that there would be extra payments . |
| 13 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 14 | But he repeated his promise that there would be extra help for poor pensioners and families on income support to assist them in meeting increased heating bills . |
| 15 | In the budget on 19 March 1991 the Chancellor announced that there would be extra Government grant to enable the community charge bills originally set by councils to be reduced by £140 for every individual ( or in the case of Wandsworth to reduce the bill to £0 ) . |
| 16 | Ron George , the leader of the Native Council of Canada , accused those who rejected the agreement as having " perpetuated apartheid in this country " and predicted that there would be increased violence among the indigenous peoples , who currently constituted around 5 per cent of Canada 's total population . |
| 17 | Italy accepted that there would be economic disadvantages , though in the negotiations it successfully managed to gain some important concessions for its own steel industry : but the economic worries took a clear secondary position to the political factors which were the major motives for Italy 's participation . |
| 18 | But Mr Sharp predicted at the time that there would be continued violence before that brought results and is on record as believing an extra 700 officers were needed . |
| 19 | As usual I had not named my squad so as to keep the opposition guessing — all I had announced was that there would be eleven players in the team . |
| 20 | We were told that there would be substantial benefits to our balance of trade , but , in fact , we had a multi-billion pound deficit inflicted on us . |
| 21 | The political situation was becoming more volatile , and Dulles feared that there would be easy pickings for the communists if Tehran drifted into a state of political chaos . |
| 22 | This was best fulfilled by a voluntary association independent of all authority so free to criticise it , and prepared to conduct a mission against apathy and escapism aware that there would be small returns for great effort . |
| 23 | When the scheme began , eight years ago , Goodlad was afraid that there would be all sorts of objections from teachers and teaching unions . |
| 24 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 25 | It was expected that there would be 13 feet of water during the lowest tides . |
| 26 | It was originally stated that there would be eight stages . |
| 27 | Asked if she would abandon her attempt if they became ill she replied that she could not say in advance , and pointed out that there would be eight doctors , including one paediatric specialist , immediately to hand . |
| 28 | He showed that it was possible , starting with a uniform concentration of chemicals which interacted with each other , for the system to develop differences in the concentration of the chemicals , which he called morphogens , such that there would be chemical waves with peaks and troughs of concentration of the morphogens . |
| 29 | Nevertheless I set off northwards , feeling sure that there would be other accommodation along the way . |
| 30 | On a first consideration one would not think that there would be appreciable stresses parallel to the crack surface but on reflection it will be seen that this must always be so . |