Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [to-vb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you succeed in becoming a planner you would be helping to create these parameters . |
| 2 | It was a practical certainty that he would be trying to raise more loans long before these were ever repaid . |
| 3 | The incorporation of the European Convention into British law would mean that British judges would be bound to consider these principles when making their judgements . |
| 4 | You 're being silly , she told herself ; a man as attractive as Luke Denner would be bound to have many women in his life , any number of girlfriends ; had n't she schooled herself into thinking this at least a hundred times — ever since that very first meeting , ever since he had dragged her unceremoniously into that small , chaste bedroom , ever since he had made love to her ? |
| 5 | To increase foreign investment the government in March 1991 announced that foreign firms would be permitted to repatriate all profits , but that only firms investing more than $2,800,000 would be permitted to retain the three-year tax exemption previously enjoyed by all foreign firms . |
| 6 | ‘ If nitrate does , indirectly , cause cancer , it will be the long-term average that matters and the effect of any increase in cancer rates would be expected to take many years to become apparent … |
| 7 | A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them . |
| 8 | Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 . |
| 9 | Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 . |
| 10 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 11 | He sent news home to Spain , demanding reinforcements of 1,000 men — the number the cacique had warned him would be required to defeat such forces of hostile Indians along the way . |
| 12 | They estimated the sort of pressures that would be required to achieve such conditions by compression and the answer astonished them . |
| 13 | Coupons would make up 25 per cent of salaries and would be used to purchase all goods in state shops costing under 1,500 roubles . |
| 14 | A thin bed of cement and sand would be used to overcome any irregularities , and ensure the unit was level . |
| 15 | I realized that sooner or later the immense resources of the Reichmann family would be used to cover all traces of the past . |