Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking at a rally on " Shaka Day " ( celebrating a Zulu hero ) , and brandishing a number of " traditional " weapons , Buthelezi declared that any attempt by the government to disarm Inkatha would be defied and that fencing around migrant worker hostels , largely Inkatha strongholds , would be destroyed . |
| 2 | It made him seem altogether too human , and the safest thing for her to do would be to remember that this man was very nearly the devil incarnate . |
| 3 | Several other ways of measuring the effect of bail on rates of offending are considered in this survey , as is the question whether more crime would be prevented if more people were remanded in custody rather than given bail . |
| 4 | As for the rest of NATO , the cause of world peace , not to say sanity , would be served if these countries were to look back to the decision of 1979 and to admit , even to themselves , that they were wrong . |
| 5 | Those cited by him included the following : it was a one-off opportunity ; there was a fear that despite the justice of the case it would not be sufficient to persuade the Government to recognise the principle by proposing legislation ; the practical impact would be limited as most cases would continue to be regulated by the various statutory regimes ; and it was consistent with Community law . |
| 6 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 7 | The southern tip of Greenland , known as Prince Christian , was to be used as a decision point where it would be decided whether enough fuel remained to proceed to Goose Bay or whether it would be necessary to proceed to the alternate . |
| 8 | First , the 1945 election would be regarded as some kind of high point in terms of the programme choice offered to the electorate by the Labour and Conservative Parties : Labour was out to create a new socialist Britain whilst the Conservatives were still rooted in the Old Toryism of empire and unregulated capitalism . |
| 9 | However , it is accepted that exceptional rainstorms and snowstorms can occur without violent winds and damage caused in these situations would be covered where such conditions are abnormal . |
| 10 | Should any question arise , however , the Registrar has a discretion ( under Land Registration Rules 1925 , r290(1) ) to allow inspection of the filed transfer and it is understood that such discretion would be exercised if any difficulty could be resolved by production of the filed transfer . |
| 11 | The teacher 's purposes in selecting it as a ‘ collaborative ’ activity would be undermined if some children worked individually . |
| 12 | A more diverse and better developed flora would result ; erosion would be reduced and many groups of animals , insects for example , would increase . |
| 13 | If animals are given Pavlovian conditioning with a compound CS consisting of separable components , the amount of strength gained by one of these components after a given number of training trials will be less than would be acquired if that component had been trained alone . |
| 14 | It was also expected that government spending would be cut by 10 per cent , that state companies would be privatized and that sales taxes would be increased . |
| 15 | A previously unknown organization calling itself the Organization for the Defence of the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees had issued a statement claiming responsibility for Leyraud 's abduction , describing him as a French intelligence officer and threatening that he would be executed if another hostage was released . |
| 16 | For the Turks have always hoped that the war would be prolonged until both sides were too exhausted to remain a menace to anybody . |
| 17 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |