Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't imagine the dictionary would draw much of a distinction between the two trades . ’ |
| 2 | Lenin believed that bureaucracy would become redundant after a proletarian revolution which would provide for the instant revocability of every civil servant , the reduction of official salaries and the simplification of control and accounting functions in society . |
| 3 | Most historians at the moment would regard that as a wild overestimate . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Lydia , ‘ a funeral would feel pointless without a body . |
| 5 | Maybe one day Miles 's head would flip open like a kitchen bin to reveal a tangle of wires and transistors . |
| 6 | Now the defenders of participatory democracy would consider this as a very weak objection . |
| 7 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |
| 8 | Different clothes would be the end of things as they were , the baby would become more of a reality . |
| 9 | It was no argument , he said , that the two offices must harmonize , as only one of the four elevations of the building would be seen with the Foreign Office , and with ‘ that exception the buildings should differ , because a picturesque style which might look well from a Park would look fantastic from a Street ’ . |
| 10 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 11 | The teacher 's ruler would point first to a pupil and then to a particular feature on the map . |
| 12 | Componential analysis would handle these as a single feature , say [ + old ] or [ -old ] , but this would be somewhat unsatisfactory because although old and young are dictionary antonyms , age is a continuum rather than an opposition . |
| 13 | RMS on the other hand would work better for a mix or vocal sound , where the levels are more consistent . |
| 14 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 15 | Surprisingly , this is true of both the classical and modern play , though you might expect that the obscurities and difficulties of words and expression would prove more of a stumbling block in , say , Shakespeare or Ben Jonson . |
| 16 | The significant point here was that if four hours each week were devoted to the teaching of Science , the School would become eligible for a grant of £150 a year , under a scheme recently introduced by the newly-created Board of Education . |