Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd be forgiven for doing a double take . |
| 2 | Sir er you hinted that er if there are to be further written representations you 'd be looking to directing a cutoff date , and you hinted at I think tomorrow as being one possibility sir , so that you could leave this enquiry on Wednesday with all the papers you need and receive nothing more by way of written representation , evidence or any other documentation whatsoever . |
| 3 | The chemists say they were promised that they 'd be paid for providing the service , but so far they have n't seen a penny . |
| 4 | For , by mid-1952 , Franco had decided that Spain 's international standing and his own personal prestige would be enhanced by concluding a bilateral agreement with the United States and a concordat with the Vatican . |
| 5 | This should be followed by a job , and a person 's chances of getting a job would be enhanced by obtaining a recognised qualification . |
| 6 | Handicapped drivers were also alarmed to hear they would be prevented from using the streets like all other drivers . |
| 7 | Access to Community waters and quotas would scarcely be feasible by fishing from United Kingdom ports under the flag of another state and , in any event , the United Kingdom would still be discriminating against the nationals of other member states , who would be prevented from pursuing an economic activity under the same conditions as British nationals . |
| 8 | At no stage did our stewards say that people carrying ANL placards would be prevented from joining the march . |
| 9 | The Court would however respectfully disagree with the observation made in Emerson that no purpose would be served by bringing the jury back into open court to hear the tape ; this was a matter for the judge 's discretion but the better practice would be for him to order the reassembling of the court so that the jury could hear the tape in open court . |
| 10 | Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians . |
| 11 | The implication would seem to be that some lives could be ‘ so demonstrably awful ’ that the doctor 's legal duty would be limited to making the child comfortable and allowing it to die . |
| 12 | Costs would be limited by keeping the offer open only until 1995 and by using a means test . |
| 13 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |
| 14 | Sometimes fresh cow-dung would be collected for plastering the house , for rituals , or for sealing the clay fermentation jars . |
| 15 | In this way the goals of ‘ environmental areas ’ would be achieved without incurring the disadvantages . |
| 16 | This would be achieved through extending the season and by increasing the number of people who could be accommodated per unit . |
| 17 | The eventual extension of the index to include outposted files would bring them under closer scrutiny and control , and , although a degree of consistency would be achieved by revising the file references to the level recommended by the Working Party , branch officers would still retain considerable discretion to organise their files in a manner that suited their particular needs . |
| 18 | When tests were used , mastery of the criterion would be achieved by setting a criterion score . |
| 19 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 20 | This would be achieved by formulating a convention on climate change , to include legally binding protocols on cutting emissions of gases which contributed to global warming , and provisions for industrialized countries to provide financial and technical assistance to Third-World countries to help them achieve this without forgoing the benefits of industrial development . |
| 21 | Other policy issues that were observed and which need discussion and consideration included : the problem of sustaining confidence in the livestock market for those ( many of whom were family or part-time farmers ) who had no other enterprise options ; the need for an examination of the labour unit figure at present used in deciding eligibility for improvement grants with a view to its removal — those at present debarred from receiving grant ( because their unit is not big enough ) were unable to carry out improvements to develop the farm ; the case for considering what effect would be achieved by placing a limit ( e. g. 500 standard man days ) on the size of unit eligible for grant and guaranteed prices — such a limit might ensure the future of family units which were under economic pressure for amalgamation and growth of the size of units ; the need for assistance with the building of a second house to aid resettlement and hand-over problems . |
| 22 | It is extremely dubious , in spite of the differences in grammatical paradigm , whether anything would be gained by classifying the two occurrences of old , or those of eat , as grammatically , hence lexically , distinct . |
| 23 | I do not think that anything would be gained by having an ombudsman to handle those problems . |
| 24 | Even if you fence it in you still have the additional traffic that would be regenerated in picking the children up and dropping them off . |
| 25 | The information gap between executives and shareholders would be bridged by employing an independent , outside consultant to study how the firm is being run and whether the strategy is correct — a five-yearly management audit . |
| 26 | It was the tragic irony of Fate that , because of the terms of reference to which de Castelnau had committed him in advance , this uniquely humanitarian general would be called upon to subject the men under his command to what was shortly to become the most inhuman conflict of the whole war . |
| 27 | So , equally obviously , the question becomes , what disruption to normal regulation would be caused by recognizing the change , always bearing in mind the rarity of the situation , and that even if some disruption were shown , it might not be sufficiently serious to warrant withholding recognition ? |
| 28 | The grounds of the appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) there was no sufficient evidence that the requirements of section 31 of the Children Act 1989 had been satisfied ; ( 2 ) the justices had made the order on the ground that to do otherwise would cause harm to the boy , when the Act required the justices to find that ‘ significant harm ’ would be caused before making the order ; and ( 3 ) the justices failed to state their reasons adequately . |
| 29 | His view would be strengthened by scotching the appeal made by both Searle and Armstrong to Moore 's paradox . |
| 30 | SLORC , the military junta which had assumed power at the height of 1988 's political unrest , allowed a general election to take place in May 1990 for a Constituent Assembly which would be charged with drafting a new constitution . |