Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | A port of some significance was staffed by a group of customs officials — headed by a collector , who would be assisted by a varying number of additional supervisory officers and a body of tidesmen and boatmen . |
| 7 | The latter is more efficient and can be thought of by analogy with the translation of , say , a whole poem in English by a whole poem in Chinese ( perhaps by pound ) , with no line-to-line correspondence , but only an overall ‘ sameness of meaning or function ’ ; whereas , on an ‘ interpretation ’ view , a Chinese poem would be constructed by a line-by-line translation of the English one . |
| 8 | The cash would be matched by a similar sum from private companies . |
| 9 | He indicated this would be done by a public works policy which ‘ would have a balancing effect on development and can be turned on and off as circumstances require ’ . |
| 10 | As well as stressing the dangers to the unity of the United Kingdom , the Tory campaign will concentrate this week on emphasising what ministers claim is the threat to recovery that would be posed by a Labour government , particularly the likelihood of an immediate increase in interest rates . |
| 11 | The links between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday . |
| 12 | THE LINKS between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday . |
| 13 | A district officer said : ‘ The existing unattractive shopfront would be replaced by a traditional timber shopfront . |
| 14 | Naturalization would be established as the only means of gaining nationality , all naturalizations since 1974 would be reviewed , and the automatically renewable 10-year residency permit would be replaced by a two-year permit . |
| 15 | On finance , Heseltine conceded that the public had " not been persuaded that the [ community ] charge is fair " , and he stated that it would be replaced by a new local tax under which there would be a single bill for each household comprising two essential elements : the number of adults living there and the value of the property . |
| 16 | The Congress of People 's Deputies , from which the standing parliament — the Supreme Soviet — was elected , would be replaced by a new bicameral Supreme Soviet which would assume the Congress 's right to alter the constitution . |
| 17 | Finally , the bodies created by Sir Keith Joseph — the School Curriculum Development Committee and the Secondary Examinations Council — would be replaced by a National Curriculum Council and a School Examinations and Assessment Council , both appointed by the Secretary of State , with responsibility to offer him advice on the national curriculum and its assessment . |
| 18 | Revenue-raising measures under the plan included ( i ) the stamping out of tax evasion , especially of capital gains tax , and reform of the tax penal law ; ( ii ) increases in general taxes on assets ( up by 2 per cent ) and on assets in the services sector ( up by 4 per cent ) ; ( iii ) higher taxes on the purchase and sale of foreign exchange , although the stamp tax would be eliminated and import tariffs cut to 11 per cent for semi-finished goods and raw materials , while previous item-specific duties would be replaced by a single 22 per cent duty ; ( iv ) the elimination of remaining tax discrimination favouring foreign investments ; ( v ) the increase of value added tax ( VAT ) to rates of between 16 and 25 per cent and increased taxes on bank loans ; and ( vi ) rises of 33 per cent in fuel taxes and adjustments in the rates charged for all public services , which acknowledged the continuing steep fall of the austral against the dollar . |
| 19 | And , moreover , it would be far less labour-intensive and much more rapid especially as the present 14-day settlement would be replaced by a rolling 3-day settlement . |
| 20 | Where one such lift is used the dock and load would be balanced by a suspended weight but two such lifts would generally be arranged to work simultaneously in opposite directions so as to balance each other . |
| 21 | A presidential candidate could win election on the first round only by gaining an absolute majority of the votes cast by at least one-quarter of registered voters ; otherwise the election would be decided by a second-round run-off between the two candidates with most votes . |
| 22 | One line shows what has happened to personal wealth divided by personal income : if wealth merely rose in line with incomes ( which would be represented by a flat wealth line on the graph ) , the theory would suggest that it would not have any independent influence on savings . |
| 23 | According to Levi these " understandings " included the following : ( i ) Israel would not be obliged to accept the principle of " land for peace " ; ( ii ) the conference would have no power to make decisions and would not be used as a forum for appeal or discussion ; ( iii ) negotiations would be direct and without preconditions and would be aimed at a peace treaty ; ( iv ) the PLO would not be a partner to the process and the Palestinians would be represented by a joint delegation with Jordan ; ( v ) the UN observer at the conference would be silent and would be a personal representative of the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar ; ( vi ) a representative of the European Communities ( EC ) would attend the opening session of the conference ; ( vii ) the USA would not allow a parallel conference to take place in the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) the Soviet Union would renew full diplomatic ties with Israel before the start of a conference . |
| 24 | Editorials regularly refer to the magazine being produced by an all-women team , from the Editress and her fair , brilliant and chivalrous staff , down to the merry-faced ruddy-cheeked little lassie that in quainter and ruder hives of literature would be represented by a grim-visaged imp in paper-cap and corduroys yclept a " Printer 's ( This was typical of its style . ) |
| 25 | How fiercely they would be incinerated by a whole skyful of such light ! |
| 26 | As the eager spectators applauded , and their cheers echoed around the field at Louis Paulhan 's success , how could anyone imagine that in just nine years time the Atlantic Ocean would be conquered by a young man in the crowd . |
| 27 | The cry of ‘ Put that light out ! ’ would be followed by a hasty adjustment of a black-out curtain . |
| 28 | With the bulk of the province 's French-speaking population opposing the agreement on the grounds that its concessions to their province were insufficient , Parizeau was optimistic of his party 's chances of winning power in Quebec 's next provincial elections — due by 1994 — and suggested that such a development would be followed by a provincial referendum on the issue of sovereignty for Quebec . |
| 29 | This would be followed by a massive Sunday lunch , and then sleep all afternoon . |
| 30 | This view of ‘ empiricism ’ would be upheld by a substantial proportion of scientific workers . |