Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This would ensure that they would be firmly established within heroin user networks and not peripheral to them .
2 There are also about 180 properties in the flood plain in Buckinghamshire , and others in Berkshire with either floor levels above the flood level or even on dry land islands that would be completely surrounded by flood water .
3 Only a Tzarina can wield it and if any man were even to touch the blade he would be instantly frozen to death .
4 He voiced their torment at knowing their children would be medically examined without consent and without any familiar face being present .
5 The decision to go ahead or not would be based on a business assessment of the development costs against potential revenue , and the decision would be strongly influenced by customer input .
6 At the Organising Committee , the retiring CEB chairman had confidently suggested that the old CEB organisation could continue to handle matters in this field and there would be little need for change : ‘ The CEB in conjunction with a strong committee on which the Ministry of Supply were represented were working hard on the generating plant extensions and it would not be necessary for the Organising Committee to worry over-much about the details of this programme in the meantime . ’
7 If everyone in , say , librarianship , was agreed on the best way to organize library services there would be little need for research , for conferences or for journals and books on librarianship .
8 The committee was to consist of 35 members and its composition would be heavily weighted in favour of the VP , with 24 of its members from the ruling group , four from the opposition Union of Moderate Parties ( UMP ) and the other seven from various social and religious organizations in the community .
9 They predicted that the amount of variety in work , the level of employee autonomy in performing the work , the amount of interaction required in carrying out task activities , the level of knowledge and skill required , and the amount of responsibility entrusted to the job-holder would be positively associated with satisfaction and a low level of absenteeism .
10 Soon , he knew , the two bodies would be neatly parcelled in plastic sheeting .
11 This additional activation of cat might cause the logogen for cot to be more highly activated than the correct logogen for cot : cot would be incorrectly identified as cat .
12 PHILIPPA Russell 's huge water jug and wash basin in the craft window showcase here , would be well received by seaside boarding house landladies up and down the country .
13 MONEY raised by the new National Lottery would be well spent on breast cancer research .
14 Readers claiming their complimentary meal would be well advised to tikka close look at the kitchens .
15 Local authorities would be well advised in future to preface all their decisions with the words : ‘ Having had regard to all relevant matters and having disregarded all irrelevant matters , and having considered the interests of all those likely to be affected , resolved that' etc .
16 After Hitler 's speech of 24 February 1941 , such views were said to have disappeared , and the dominant opinion was that ‘ the war would be victoriously concluded in summer 1941 ’ .
17 The heart of Paris , around the Louvre and the Hotel de Ville , would be entirely reorganised with pedestrian zones , one-way systems and extra bus routes .
18 ‘ Thinking I would stretch the rules to suit myself is very different from thinking I would be so consumed by greed that I would commit a felony . ’
19 Ultimately the position was rationalized by the Local Government , Planning and Land Act , 1980 , which restricted the definition of a ‘ county matter ’ and specified that all planning applications would be initially handled by district councils .
20 With luck , their homes would not be burgled and any disputes that might subsequently arise over their property would be swiftly resolved on production of those impressive-looking deeds , some of them so old that they bore the colophon of the Sublime Porte .
21 This indicates that the DNA duplexes lie roughly in this plane , and that this region of the pattern would be poorly phased by calculation from the protein model alone .
22 Thus a creature that hunts by daylight would waste its energy if it rushed around in the night when its prey was hiding in a burrow and , anyway , it would be poorly equipped for hunting then .
23 Public opinion would demand that schoolchildren be moved to safe areas ; a serious raid on a school would be highly damaging to morale .
24 On the one hand , placing all the above temporal adjuncts in theme position would be highly marked in Dutch ; on the other hand , changing the thematic structure of the original may disrupt the natural development of the text — unless the translator finds a thematic element other than time which can provide a consistent point of orientation .
25 Thus to make a wonderful stock base for poaching or a clear soup , water would be highly flavoured with lemon or lime juice , plus lemon grass and kaffir lime leaf .
26 whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and
27 Manufacturers might like to take note and perhaps prepare ‘ feeding ’ schedules or other informative literature on this subject that I am sure would be greatly appreciated by novice and advanced fishkeepers alike .
28 Officials leaked papers yesterday showing that British , not French , farmers would be hardest hit by subsidy reductions demanded by America .
29 This affected not only the fishermen ; all manner of townsfolk would be eagerly pressed into service with the onset of the mackerel or pilchard season .
30 Then in case of recriminations afterwards , the client 's own words would be safely recorded on tape .
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