Example sentences of "would be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 2 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 3 | The boring old unions would be pushed out by a new Rainbow Alliance of media-wise radicals , alert and campaigning on the big issues of racial and sexual discrimination , nuclear power , and protecting the environment . |
| 4 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 5 | Up to 21,000 reservists would be called up in a countrywide security crackdown , he said . |
| 6 | The pig would be hung up on a big strong hook and there was much to-ing and fro-ing with kettles of boiling water to help scrape off the bristles and extract the entrails . |
| 7 | They could get quite boisterous and reckless , especially during the early days , when they would be shut in for a while . |
| 8 | Sequences of words would be flashed up on a VDU , so quickly that — in theory — they could only be perceived subliminally . |
| 9 | This is surprising since the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has ruled in that the refusal to engage a pregnant woman and a dismissal on grounds of pregnancy are a form of direct discrimination covered by Council Directive 76/207/ EEC without the necessity to resort to comparisons with the treatment which would be meted out to a man in a comparable situation . |
| 10 | Mary would be sent out like a rowing boat among the waiting fleet — a word here , a suggestion there , showing again the presence of the command vessel . |
| 11 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 12 | Mr Knapp said trainmakers Brel , anxiously waiting for an order for 188 new Networker trains , could not survive BR 's privatisation when investment in new stock would be cut back to a minimum . |
| 13 | These bets would be handed over to a runner and signed with each man 's racing nom de plume , be it his nickname or any other name he considered lucky . |
| 14 | Every evening the make-up would be wiped off with a towel resulting in quite a large laundry bill for each Girl . |
| 15 | Filip also said IBM 's development group in Toronto would be coming out with a distributed , relational database in mid-1993 . |
| 16 | This instrumentalism would be carried over into a principle of differential rewards according to the hierarchy of office , in which prestige , privilege and power would be isomorphic with one another . |
| 17 | In her statement to MPs , Mrs Bottomley said the reforms would be carried through by an implementation group , and a London initiative zone would make sure the reforms cover the most deprived areas of the city . |
| 18 | If it was , the voting would be carried out on a unanimous basis . |
| 19 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the rates were the most unjust form of local taxation , yet under Labour we would have a revaluation that would be carried out on an arbitrary basis such as the market price ; the rebuilding cost ; the maintenance and repair cost ; the private rent value ; the number of windows , the size of the roof , or the view from the property . |
| 20 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 21 | Assessment , however , would be carried out by an external assessor who would look at testimonies from the line manager and company director , and a portfolio of documentary evidence and reports . |
| 22 | She would be allowed in as an adjunct , and kept from doing further harm . |
| 23 | ( The Soviet stance vis-à-vis Iraq had hardened noticeably during November with disillusionment over the expectation that 1,000 Soviet nationals would be allowed out within a few weeks following the Oct. 28-9 visit of Yevgeny Primakov [ see p. 37758 ] . |
| 24 | Those old Andy Hardy movies always seemed to have a scene where a bunch of American teenagers would be sitting around in an old barn or something wondering where to stage their amateur dramatics . |
| 25 | Its responsibilities East of Suez would be taken over by a new tri-Service headquarters established at Aden under an air vice-marshal with the title of HQ British Forces , Middle East . |
| 26 | Failing a settlement , a dispute would be passed on to a binational panel , on which non-NAFTA members could serve to enhance their impartiality . |
| 27 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
| 28 | A National Integration Council would be set up as a forum for discussions on these issues . |
| 29 | Wilson also announced that a new Hong Kong Technology Centre was being planned as part of the overall strategy to boost the economy , that an International Business Committee would be set up as a means of tapping the talents of overseas businesspeople for the benefit of the whole community , and that £1,600,000 would be spent to bring pollution under control . |
| 30 | The limits to spending would be set out with a long-term perspective . |