Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 2 | It would be displayed in a special gallery in the Palace of Arts and the proceeds from the small fee charged for admission would be added to the fund set up by the Queen for the benefit of her many charitable concerns . |
| 3 | Faced with the reality that newspapers ( and television stations ) were no more than private organs for private gain , commentators could only hope that private ownership would be tempered by a social conscience . |
| 4 | The cumulative loan would be repaid through a private agency , the Student Loans Company , over a period of , say , 10 years . |
| 5 | Under the terms of the agreement the debt would be repaid over a 20-year period , at an interest rate on 5 per cent . |
| 6 | Diana , they decided , would be painted as a sick woman with only a tenuous grasp of reality . |
| 7 | Coincidences happen daily in ‘ real life ’ which would be condemned in a mere story , so writers tend to avoid them . |
| 8 | Then , in a letter to the company 's London headquarters , he said that unless he was paid , items would be injected by a qualified chemist , causing ‘ pain , suffering and possibly death ’ to customers . |
| 9 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 10 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 11 | ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 12 | ( with whom Fox and Russell L.JJ. agreed ) said , at pp. 991–992 : ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma . |
| 13 | The current had cut into a hillside on the upriver side of the bend so that he would be faced with a steep climb of some fifty feet . |
| 14 | The formula being applied is then : Price index in 1985 = unc This can be evaluated as : Price index in 1985 = For 1986 , the price index would be calculated in a similar way : Price index in 1986 = unc To construct a general formula , denote the current year 's prices by P 1 and the base year 's prices by P 0 . |
| 15 | Laspeyres price index in 1985 = unc For 1986 , the index would be calculated in a similar way : Laspeyres price index in 1986 = unc Denoting the current year 's prices by P 1 and the base year 's prices and quantities by P 0 and Q 0 respectively , we can write the general formula as : Laspeyres price index = |
| 16 | Suppose , for example , that what is commonly known as the general , or the community 's , interest would be served by a certain public scheme such as compulsory education in mixed ability schools whose students are drawn from mixed social backgrounds . |
| 17 | Clearly , such an arrangement necessitates the use of more elaborate and comprehensive timber framing than would be employed in a narrow barn where masonry walls provide all the support for the roof . |
| 18 | First , instead of a figure based on shares , the members ' liability would be limited to a fixed sum expressed in the memorandum of association on registration of the company . |
| 19 | Indeed , David Kirby stressed how the L&SE call on the PSO grant would be limited by a continued reduction in fleet size ( from 7,465 vehicles to 7,050 vehicles within two years ) and by running fewer and shorter trains to adapt to ‘ reduced demand ’ . |
| 20 | The Transport Department is said by the report to " have recently admitted that they only put a nominal value on public open space which would be destroyed by a proposed road scheme " . |
| 21 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 22 | Such a long passage without any breathing spaces would be trying for a single player , who would have to fit in an intake of breath where the phrasing breaks . |
| 23 | The General Assembly on Dec. 19 established the post of a UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator , whose secretariat would be based on a strengthened Office of the UN Disaster Relief Co-ordinator and the consolidation of existing offices which dealt with complex emergencies . |
| 24 | The work of the commission , comprising senior USSR and Russian Federation government members , would be based on a radical draft programme announced by Yeltsin on July 20 which envisaged a 500-day dash to a full market economy in the Russian Federation . |
| 25 | Payment would be based on a pooled system : if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared . |
| 26 | Evolution was thus to be portrayed as an ever-branching tree , and a good classification system would be based on a correct identification of the crucial points at which the branchings took place . |
| 27 | However , the evolution of complex living creatures ( not just humans ) would be based on a high information content greater than could be found , say , in the bacteria of the atmosphere of the Jovian planets . |
| 28 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 29 | André Breton , self-styled ‘ pope ’ of the surrealist movement , contrasted a high modernist aesthetic in which all art would be based on a musical model with the surrealist ( and , in the present context , postmodern ) idea that all art should partake of a visual mode . |
| 30 | The SE would be a hybrid ( and to this extent some of the original purpose of the SE has been lost ) ; it would be incorporated in a particular Member State , whose domestic laws would govern certain aspects of its operations ( e.g. insolvency ) , but its registered office could be transferred to another Member State . |