Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she was n't home by then I 'd have to go and fetch her , knowing she 'd be slumped in a drunken stupor on the pavement , open-legged and snotty-nosed , against the wall of the High Fields pub . |
| 2 | Erm first of all Chairman I would confirm that it is our view that with a provision of six thousand five hundred for Harrogate district , we do n't think we 'd be looking at a new settlement to serve our needs , erm , having said that , we support the Greater York strategy , and we we certainly the level of provision erm for Greater York as proposed by the County Council , er but leaving aside for one moment the issue of a new settlement , it is our view that we 'll be able to accommodate the level of growth that I think is anticipated in our district , erm , within the figures , and I 'm referring specifically to N Y one , and the table on the last page where there 's an indication there of the sort of of er housing numbers that would would have to be accommodated within Harrogate district , and and our part of Greater York is essentially a rural character consisting of a a number of small villages , so there there we have er a total figure of two hundred dwellings to be provided within our part of Greater York , that basically represents erm existing commitments and a a yield from small sites in the future , perhaps conversions , and we'r we 're quite happy with that . |
| 3 | It 'd be gone within a few hours . |
| 4 | What you use consultants for is when you have a one off task that it would be uneconomic to employ a member of staff to do because it would be finished in six months and then you 'd be left with a surplus member of staff . |
| 5 | In fact , Jack fancied his country sports so much he 'd occasionally order Boro apprentices to help ‘ beat ’ the Yorkshire moors for game birds — where he 'd be waiting with a loaded gun ! |
| 6 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 7 | It would be displayed in a special gallery in the Palace of Arts and the proceeds from the small fee charged for admission would be added to the fund set up by the Queen for the benefit of her many charitable concerns . |
| 8 | Faced with the reality that newspapers ( and television stations ) were no more than private organs for private gain , commentators could only hope that private ownership would be tempered by a social conscience . |
| 9 | The cumulative loan would be repaid through a private agency , the Student Loans Company , over a period of , say , 10 years . |
| 10 | Under the terms of the agreement the debt would be repaid over a 20-year period , at an interest rate on 5 per cent . |
| 11 | Diana , they decided , would be painted as a sick woman with only a tenuous grasp of reality . |
| 12 | A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party . |
| 13 | Coincidences happen daily in ‘ real life ’ which would be condemned in a mere story , so writers tend to avoid them . |
| 14 | In the latter case the operation would be repeated with a second set of tests . |
| 15 | Then , in a letter to the company 's London headquarters , he said that unless he was paid , items would be injected by a qualified chemist , causing ‘ pain , suffering and possibly death ’ to customers . |
| 16 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 17 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 18 | Each path would be expanded in a depth-first , backtrack , depth-first , backtrack pattern until each possible combination had been extended over the poor patch . |
| 19 | ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 20 | ( with whom Fox and Russell L.JJ. agreed ) said , at pp. 991–992 : ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 21 | The current had cut into a hillside on the upriver side of the bend so that he would be faced with a steep climb of some fifty feet . |
| 22 | The formula being applied is then : Price index in 1985 = unc This can be evaluated as : Price index in 1985 = For 1986 , the price index would be calculated in a similar way : Price index in 1986 = unc To construct a general formula , denote the current year 's prices by P 1 and the base year 's prices by P 0 . |
| 23 | Laspeyres price index in 1985 = unc For 1986 , the index would be calculated in a similar way : Laspeyres price index in 1986 = unc Denoting the current year 's prices by P 1 and the base year 's prices and quantities by P 0 and Q 0 respectively , we can write the general formula as : Laspeyres price index = |
| 24 | Suppose , for example , that what is commonly known as the general , or the community 's , interest would be served by a certain public scheme such as compulsory education in mixed ability schools whose students are drawn from mixed social backgrounds . |
| 25 | Clearly , such an arrangement necessitates the use of more elaborate and comprehensive timber framing than would be employed in a narrow barn where masonry walls provide all the support for the roof . |
| 26 | First , instead of a figure based on shares , the members ' liability would be limited to a fixed sum expressed in the memorandum of association on registration of the company . |
| 27 | Indeed , David Kirby stressed how the L&SE call on the PSO grant would be limited by a continued reduction in fleet size ( from 7,465 vehicles to 7,050 vehicles within two years ) and by running fewer and shorter trains to adapt to ‘ reduced demand ’ . |
| 28 | The Transport Department is said by the report to " have recently admitted that they only put a nominal value on public open space which would be destroyed by a proposed road scheme " . |
| 29 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 30 | As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 . |