Example sentences of "would [verb] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 2 | It is hard to see why reasonable notice should be an additional requirement where the document concerned is one which a reasonable man would regard as a legal document , to be read carefully for its terms and conditions . |
| 3 | One of the barriers to what the Government would regard as a successful sale is the amount of regulation covering coal mining activities . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's what I would regard as a sensible Scot someone who does n't wear Scotland on every part of his clothing , but he 's deeply interested in the Scottish Institute in terms of its members . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in what most people would regard as an obvious case of rape , the victims had to suffer a traumatic experience in court and have their humiliating experiences reported to millions . |
| 6 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely that mere packaging and grading of produce would qualify as an industrial process giving essential characteristics . |
| 8 | If the public knew they could be ‘ caught ’ by any passing bus driver , this would act as a good deterrent against infringement . |
| 9 | If this chemical were released into the air surrounding the leaves , it would act as a first line of defence , repelling aphids with an eye on predation . |
| 10 | Such a change of rule would act as a great deterrent to those guilty of such offences on a regular basis . |
| 11 | Some officials recognized that the new system was alien , but expected that the judicial system would act as a progressive force which would promote the adoption of British norms about justice . |
| 12 | On the other hand , with the prospect of a court case looming , several interviewees felt it was pragmatic to seek help , from their GP or the local Drugs Council , in the hope that this would act as a mitigating factor in sentencing : |
| 13 | In addition to examining ways to generate resources it would act as a consultative group linking potential donors and beneficiaries . |
| 14 | If I were to get carried away with desire for your beautiful body the remembrance that you are Garry 's woman would act as a cold shower . ’ |
| 15 | They hoped that the very talk of a general strike would act as a restraining influence on militarism . |
| 16 | An attached shed to the south of the barn was demolished , and the architect , Timothy Bruce-Dick , decided to infill the gap between the barn and a range of cow-houses which existed to the north with a two-storey structure which would act as a covered link to this northern wing and provide a playroom over garages ( Fig 38 and Plate 4 ) . |
| 17 | This would act as a public forum to discuss and recommend improvements to the controversial Tinkhundla system of indirect elections . |
| 18 | Critics of the decree expressed concern that it would affect not only the targeted black marketeers but legitimate entrepreneurs in co-operatives and small private businesses , and would act as a further deterrent to foreign investors . |
| 19 | It would act as a further incentive for conglomerates to enforce their Chinese Walls for fear of being sued for damages by investors , particularly other market players , who suspect the conglomerate to be trading on the basis of inside information . |
| 20 | This would act as an agreed convention against which programmes of study could be evaluated . |
| 21 | In a competitive situation , this would act as an effective discipline . |
| 22 | The EMF would not carry out national monetary policy decisions , so this would not interfere with the Bank of England 's role in this area , although the EMF would act as an indirect constraint on domestic monetary policy and would be in control of ECU interest rates , which would eventually be expected to influence national interest rates . |
| 23 | And when he would arrive from Barnard Castle with a heavy load of shopping on a bicycle and give me a nice round bun he would buy as a special treat from a shop called Guy 's . |
| 24 | And so to take what we would describe as a reasonable view on this , we say that if you know from evidence there are a number of concealed households , you should seek to accommodate them . |
| 25 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 26 | Bosnia would survive as a constitutional fiction , allowing the world to save face . |
| 27 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 28 | This ‘ stamp ’ would emphasise to users the cost of the health service since it would appear as a separate tax item on the pay slip , and would therefore increase in line with earnings and not prices . |
| 29 | A Landsat MSS pixel that had equal reflectance in bands 7 and 5 and zero reflectance in band 4 would appear as a yellow point on the display if the false-colour compositing method described in the preceding paragraph were used . |
| 30 | There are no written vowel letters in Hebrew and so the words Nazara ( as it was originally ) and Nezer would appear as the same word , simply ‘ N Z R ’ . |