Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada announced that Canadian development aid would be tied to progress on democratization and respect for human rights . |
| 2 | Its two most recent decisions on the Government 's power to restrain publications by former Crown servants — Spycatcher and the Cavendish Memoirs — were marked by references to the Convention and by an obvious desire manifested by most of the judges to ensure that both the law they were declaring and the decision they were taking in accordance with it would be seen to comply with Article 10 . |
| 3 | With more confidence , more people would be looking to invest in capital goods like office furniture , which could only help Project and its 450 Haverhill workforce , he said . |
| 4 | It should be borne in mind that the company would be assessed to tax by reference to its accounting period ending on normal incorporation tax principles and not on a preceding year basis . |
| 5 | According to his calculations such theories would be bound to disagree with quantum mechanics in some of its experimentally verified predictions . |
| 6 | Clearly the auction house feels that in the light of new revelations about the treasure 's origins , its manner of acquisition and details of falsified export licenses , any attempt to offer it at auction would be bound to result in failure and would not redound to the auction house 's credit . |
| 7 | On May 11 it had been announced that a US task force including helicopters , amphibious landing ships and construction workers would be sent to help with disaster relief operations . |
| 8 | Mr Altman has worked out what yield spreads above those on Treasuries would be needed to compensate for default rates at current levels . |
| 9 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 10 | It also suggested that he would be permitted to remain as leader until the completion of his first term in October 1991 , and would possibly achieve a second two-year term . |
| 11 | In return he would be allowed to continue in office , with his term not due to expire until 1996 . |
| 12 | Making clear the role of the armed forces in keeping cicil order when necessary , however , the statement said that the armed forces would " under no circumstances allow intranational armed clashes " to develop in Yugoslavia , and that no inter-republican dispute would be allowed to escalate into violence . |
| 13 | Students without that background should apply directly to the Scottish Doctoral Programme at Glasgow where , on successful completion of the one-year MSc , they would be allowed to progress to PhD research at Edinburgh . |
| 14 | The scenario at this stage was that Friern would be allowed to die with dignity à la Powick , once the catchment district services were sufficiently strengthened to provide for all new patients . |
| 15 | On the last day the instructor held a test , and like the others Tim passed , but he felt that they all would have passed anyway , that the man was there to sell the machine and that no one would be allowed to fail in case they did n't recommend it . |
| 16 | Only Turkmen citizens would be allowed to work in state enterprises , and Russian would no longer be the official language for inter-ethnic communication . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 18 | The DSS said last week local authorities would be expected to negotiate with home owners on how to make up the gap in funding for residents who have to be away from the home for more than six days . |
| 19 | But Mr Patten — who would earn a tax-free salary of £140,000 — would be expected to remain in office until the handover in 1997 , taking him out of mainstream politics for five years . |
| 20 | Active rifting , on the other hand , would be expected to begin with volcanism which is then followed by uplift before rifting itself is finally initiated ; but in some cases uplift seems to precede volcanism . |
| 21 | Thus the link would be expected to occur on average after R/2 , and the overflow record would also take an average of R/2tn locate ( or R if the start of the overflow track has to be found before the record search can begin ) . |
| 22 | Density contrasts at intermediate depths would be expected to occur at footwall ramps , suggesting that detailed gravity studies might be rewarding . |
| 23 | In the middle of the last century , a local landowner of rare imagination , Osgood Mackenzie , conceived the idea of transforming a barren and rocky promontory of Loch Ewe into a wild garden in which , blessed by the influence of the Gulf Stream , trees and shrubs would be persuaded to flourish in defiance of the harsh northern climate . |
| 24 | France and the UK , as the only EC countries holding permanent membership of the UN Security Council , would be required to vote in line with the views of their EC partners . |
| 25 | Further capacity would be required to deal with sewage sludge and industrial and chemical waste as new legislation tightened up on private plants . |
| 26 | The US Congress has dreamed up the Mary Whitehouse chip , a circuit that the television industry would be required to build into television sets , enabling parents to block out programmes coded for violent content : according to Associated Press , the chip was thought up by Representative Edward Markey , a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications — the parent could just push the v-block button on the remote control and keep violent programming out of the home , ’ he said reckoning that if only 10% or 15% of all homes started blocking programmes , broadcasters and advertisers would soon get the message . |
| 27 | Criticism of the Dunkel plan came also from groups opposed to its proposals to liberalize textile trade and its endorsement of a five-year transition period before less-developed countries would be required to comply with copyright and patenting provisions . |
| 28 | He wanted to sleep , and the prospect of a bed , even one which he would be required to occupy without companionship , was so attractive that he missed at first the signs that all was not well . |
| 29 | He felt that if they could make travelling at night dangerous , the enemy would be forced to move in daylight , thus becoming targets for the RAF . |
| 30 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |