Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a view which no doubt would be defended with equal firmness at Horbury which lays particular stress on the personal touch . |
| 2 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 3 | It remains to be seen whether the changes were that dramatic , but the new dispensation was certainly to mean that sociological themes and realism generally would be handled with more care . |
| 4 | It should be replaced , in Burlatsky 's view , by a different concept , ‘ public , self-managing socialism ’ , in which many functions presently performed by the state would be devolved to civil society and its institutions . |
| 5 | Alternatively , major capital projects would be undertaken by private sector contractors who would finance and build the assets in question , operate them for a specified period in return for an agreed fee and then transfer them to the commissioning authority . |
| 6 | A more specific prediction might be produced on the basis of Easterbrook 's hypothesis , this would state that memory for central details would be enhanced with increasing risk , while memory for peripheral details would be impaired . |
| 7 | BSL would be enhanced by this recognition and use . |
| 8 | In a speech on Nov. 12 the United States President Bush announced that US diplomatic representation in Laos would be upgraded to ambassadorial level for the first time since the communist regime came to power in 1975 . |
| 9 | Although Sir Cyril had spoken in January 1988 about ‘ hundreds ’ of CTCs , these would be funded by local education authorities . |
| 10 | In early December there was some speculation that Shaikh Obeid would be exchanged for Israeli navigator Ron Arad , the only missing Israeli serviceman believed to be alive . |
| 11 | Soon the drawings of people with hunched shoulders , their heads bowed , would be filled with this drama . |
| 12 | This envisaged 300 first-past-the-post seats plus 175 that would be filled by proportional representation . |
| 13 | Hurd confirmed to the House that 18 of the 60 Hong Kong Legco seats would be filled by direct election in 1991 . |
| 14 | The members of such groups typically believe that their specially created cameras are the only camerae lucidae ; if only people could be persuaded to peep at the world through their lenses , all other cameras would be condemned to political obscurity . |
| 15 | Jason Prior was going to come out of this shining like a knight in armour while she would be condemned to eternal darkness , everyone believing it was her fault . |
| 16 | In short , they and their children would be condemned to grinding poverty and , if their income comes from the state , to permanent state surveillance , not in this case for cohabitation but for ‘ scrounging ’ . |
| 17 | Varieties and eventually species would be formed despite any tendency for interbreeding with the main body of the population in the centre . |
| 18 | Otherwise , as Evershed J said in Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 179 " … the master would be exposed to unfair competition on the part of his former servant — competition flowing not so much from the personal skill of the assistant as from the intimacies and knowledge of the master 's business acquired by the servant from the circumstances of his employment " . |
| 19 | The premium put option provides a higher guaranteed return to the holder of the debt than would be received on identical debt without such a put option . |
| 20 | One legend taught that if a man and a woman caught the same wave they would be joined in physical union . |
| 21 | When I 'd had confirmation that permission would be granted for one dwelling , no size specified , I toured round the estate agents , seeking a prospective purchaser . ’ |
| 22 | Not much would be served at this stage by ousting Sir Derek Alun-Jones as chairman , as some shareholders would like . |
| 23 | Cleaning staff would be employed for that site only , and usually on a full time basis , working to extremely rigorous standards . |
| 24 | He also said senior ranks would be employed on fixed term contracts , and their pay would be performance related . |
| 25 | There would be a fierce struggle , resulting in the Reds being bundled out of the building , whereupon the same tactics would be employed in another part of the building . |
| 26 | Except in criminal areas , initial advice should be given by an advice agency , such as a CAB , rather than a private practitioner , and criminal cases would be limited to one hour 's work . |
| 27 | If the treaty bears the imprint of our views , how can the Prime Minister explain the acceptance of article 104B , under which present and future Governments of this country would be limited by European authority to a borrowing requirement of no more than 3 per cent . |
| 28 | He calculated that the Viet Minh would be destroyed in any attempt to capture his position . |
| 29 | Some of Britain 's rarest landscapes — such as the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland , with their unique peat bogs — would be destroyed by large-scale planting , together with their existing animal and plant life , say the conservationists . |
| 30 | Mr Baker was determined to control the presentation of the Report so that he and the Prime Minister would be rewarded with good publicity . |