Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] would [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Among the wilder rumours in strong circulation were that Lenin was dead , that the French had chosen Nicholas as their Tsar , and that England had declared war on Russia , so there would be wholesale peasant mobilization once again . |
| 3 | The horse box charge from the south would be a minimum of £500 and more for those coming from the West Country , so there would be little change from a £2,000 race when all the expenses , including the deductions for trainer , jockey and stable lads have been completed . |
| 4 | In the meantime , he said , the French were making genuine progress in building up native forces although it would be some years before the Vietnamese would be competent to defend themselves . |
| 5 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 6 | Basil had gone to Paris , of course , so it would be six months before people asked where he was . |
| 7 | A blanket amnesty for those involved in guerrilla activity since 1985 had yet to be finalized and it was not known if there would be official inquiries into massacres by the military , especially that at Mooiwana in 1986 . |
| 8 | I goes Annemarie I doubt if there would be any chance for you even under Munn and Dunning unless you can conquer the capital letter . |
| 9 | But I never knew from one week to the next if there would be any money . |
| 10 | After we had read about these things several times over we started wondering again if there would be any soup . |
| 11 | These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold . |
| 12 | I do n't know if it would be much consolation to someone being made into spaghetti in a black hole to know that his particles might survive . |
| 13 | I shall resist the temptation to say all sorts of nice things about you at this point , because there would be other opportunities obviously . |
| 14 | Right so after nineteen forty five there cer there certainly would have been a momentum towards this in the areas where there 'd been a strong Japanese presence because there would be more collaborators and there would be some more obvious targets . |
| 15 | The personnel manager felt that if she was working in a establishment with a lower turn-over she would be more democratic because there would be more time . |
| 16 | In the former case this is because there would be full information , and in the latter case the reason for the irrelevance of γ t was explained when we discussed the intertemporal substitution model . |
| 17 | still budget , now you would have some decrease in costs because there would be less phone calls , there would be less paper , less trouble . |
| 18 | ‘ Though that would be risky , because it would be broad daylight , and there would be plenty of people about . ’ |
| 19 | Erm , I d I certainly can see the commercial success of a new settlement in the south east of York , or south west of York , but that 's because it would be attracting commuters from West Yorkshire . |
| 20 | ‘ I would jump at the chance of a move because it would be big step in my own career at 20 , and a financial boost for Bangor . |
| 21 | Because it would be bad news for the country if we are witnessing another fight between the private sector and the state and I hope that we 're not going to see in the whole rules and regulation industry , versus er the public a sort of repeat of the Moriarty , Sherlock Holmes final fight er with never knowing who in fact er wins as the battle of o of continues . |
| 22 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 23 | Then , as the universe expanded and cooled , the antiquarks would annihilate with the quarks , but since there would be more quarks than antiquarks , a small excess of quarks would remain . |
| 24 | But the Bank had been monitoring the situation closely and there had to be ‘ room for debate ’ about whether there would be sufficient demand for office space in the early 1990s for the supply coming on stream . |
| 25 | It looked as if nobody had been to church that morning and she even began to wonder whether there would be any lunch . |
| 26 | A government spokesman last year told the House of Lords that ‘ it is doubtful whether there would be any heritage places in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Bennet warned that although good prices had been obtained for the contracting subsidiaries , it was not clear whether the banks and the secured bondholders would get all of their money back , and he was very cautious about whether there would be any dividend for the ordinary creditors , let alone the shareholders . |
| 28 | But the question may be asked whether there would be any justification for the use of force in order to lead men to the love of God in Christ . |
| 29 | He wondered whether Alice Mair would invite Lessingham to stay the night at Martyr 's Cottage or whether he would be driven home later by her or her brother . |
| 30 | He wondered , briefly , whether it would be repulsive making love to an intersex , even one whose enhancements were as familiar to him as Zambia 's . |