Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [be] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1954 the Soviets had developed a new proposal to resolve European security problems , whereby all existing European borders would be recognised in an arrangement involving Eastern and Western bloc states . |
| 2 | By the year 2000 , both countries would be placed on an equal footing with Mexican banks . |
| 3 | If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others , the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift . |
| 4 | The company said it would mean a pay cut of about 10pc , as sacked workers would be rehired at an existing union-agreed ‘ new worker ’ rate . |
| 5 | The channel for appeals would be described by an organisation chart : |
| 6 | US goods would be targeted in an incentive scheme providing tax credits to the value of 5 per cent for Japanese companies which increased their imports of manufactured goods . |
| 7 | The studies would be followed by an investment programme , estimated at some dollars 500,000,000 . |
| 8 | A key objective of the projects is to show how carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by an increased use of bus transport . |
| 9 | Teachers would be trained on an Institution of Environmental Health course and schools would be given booklets on food safety . |
| 10 | On June 5 the Army Council announced that the country 's armed forces would be reduced by an unspecified amount ; the army was believed to number more than 100,000 , and the World Bank and international aid donors had frequently called for reductions . |
| 11 | They point out how similar differences would be found in an analysis of Conservative and Alliance results in the 1982 local elections . |
| 12 | Prunskiene , on the other hand , claimed that in a telephone conversation later on June 26 Gorbachev had assured her that negotiations would be held on an " inter-state " basis , implying equality between the negotiating parties . |
| 13 | On Feb. 28 , 1991 , Haughey announced that " outdated " family planning laws would be changed after an appeal court increased by £100 the fine imposed in May 1990 [ see p. 37585 ] on the Irish Family Planning Association ( IFPA ) for selling condoms in a record store in Dublin . |
| 14 | Appeals against his conclusions would be heard by an independent tribunal , which would be able to impose penalties of up to 10% of turnover ( although initially this would be limited to £1m ) . |
| 15 | The people murdered last week were every bit as innocent as were the people in the Shankhill Road , and I would be certain that the families of the people in the Shankhill Road would be horrified that the murder of their loved ones would be used as an excuse as an excuse to do exactly the same to other innocent people . |
| 16 | Indeed , because job distinctions and jurisdictions within largely self-contained , internal labour markets are very weak , and in the absence of an ( external ) market based wage system , it was probably inevitable that unions would be established on an enterprise basis . |
| 17 | A gunner sipping his soup astraddle his cannon , a group of NCOs playing cards would be expunged by an unheralded salvo . |