Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under some circumstances federal prosecutors would be empowered to seek the death penalty even in the 14 states which had prohibited capital punishment . |
| 2 | Federal courts would be empowered to impose the death sentence for 51 crimes . |
| 3 | A very large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel . |
| 4 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 5 | On Aug. 14 , Georgian National Guard detachments were deployed in Abkhazia , following a televised address by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze , in which he warned that all measures would be employed to secure the release of Interior Minister Roman Gventsadze and other officials , who had been taken hostage on Aug. 11 by supporters of ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia . |
| 6 | Occasionally landowners would get restive , and men would be employed to interrupt the service by removing the rails . |
| 7 | The prosecuting counsel said that nothing would be heard to criticise the victim 's character , who was timid and nervous . |
| 8 | A footbridge would be erected to cross the Gogar Burn . |
| 9 | A footbridge would be erected to cross the Gogar Burn . |
| 10 | On this basis , no parents would consider abortion for ‘ Reason four ’ ( see Chapter five ) ; everything possible would be done to help the survival of the severely handicapped ; parents would in almost all cases wish to keep their child , and there would be no actual difference between bringing up a child who was mentally handicapped and one who was not , or one who was disabled or one who was not , unless the necessary support services were lacking . |
| 11 | It is just such a spirit that would be wanted to animate the fertility of the earth and ensure the continuance of increase and plenty in the plants and animals that a browsing existence depends upon . |
| 12 | Economic and military aid would be furnished to render the ROK government capable of defending itself but without being very explicit as to what this meant . |
| 13 | He would be instructed to pass the word around in militant loyalist circles that he was an informer so that he would be assassinated . |
| 14 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 15 | Politicians would be tempted to unbalance the budget and raise public spending by borrowing money , citing Keynesian doctrine to provide intellectual justification for a populist move . |
| 16 | C. 59 , p. 71 ) and perhaps inferentially from the Effer decision on an interlocutory application the U.K. court would be bound to decide the jurisdiction issue as a preliminary one on the information placed before it . |
| 17 | The owners of Flokati were showing Mavis and Walter Bricknell-type behaviour , fluttering about in a nervous anxiety that would be bound to affect the horse if it went on too long . |
| 18 | In such a case he would be bound to take the woman as he found her , if sued by her , and her pregnancy would be just as much a a physical condition in his victim as would be the case of a person having an eggshell skull . |
| 19 | Consequently , a member state would be bound to authorise the registration of a vessel of nationals of another member state only if those nationals were entitled , in the light of those criteria , to benefit by the quotas of the first member state . |
| 20 | They would be bound to seek the help of the pollsters , and we 've all seen and heard quite enough of them . |
| 21 | The zoologist Cloudsley-Thompson suggests the enormous size of herbivores ‘ would be bound to distort the ratio even if the vagaries of fossilization are ignored . |
| 22 | He added that two or three state industries would be privatized and that efforts would be made to streamline the administration of the rest , making them self-financing . |
| 23 | Hogg added it was likely a draw would be made to determine the order of matches in the Scottish inter-district championship , while the following programme has been devised for the Scottish districts v Irish provinces contest : |
| 24 | Supt Max Wallace , the officer heading the police operation , said no attempt would be made to end the siege by force and that the police were prepared to sit it our for days if necessary . |
| 25 | All proprietors and editors would be asked to publish the code and abide by it . |
| 26 | and he was getting to be an old man and he had actually stopped and then father would take er would be asked to do the undertaking in that part . |
| 27 | Other management functions would be authorised to cover the deletion or amendment of certain fields . |
| 28 | The Mayor of Strasbourg , this man Dietrich , Baron , Dietrich , used to do a lot of entertaining , and very often erm , Rouget de Lisle would be invited to join the company . |
| 29 | He said that international observers would be invited to supervise the ballot and that a prime minister would be appointed from whichever party won a majority . |
| 30 | The above discrepancy would be overcome postulating the existence of a genetic predisposition to mount an abnormal autoimmune response , possibly linked to particular HLA alleles ( HLA-DR3 ? ) , known to be significantly prevalent in autoimmune hepatitis . |