Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The DHAC announced that the exercise would be repeated the following weekend ; although the police warned that they would have to intervene this time , the demonstration went ahead and was extended to forty-eight hours . |
2 | Floella is a visitor and would be owed the common duty of care . |
3 | A lawyer speaking for the families said they would be appealing against the Place of Safety orders , and that the appeal would be heard the following day in Kirkwall Sheriff Court . |
4 | ‘ She told me she and Mellor had long chats about politics , and that it had been suggested by the Prime Minister that at the end of the year Mellor would be made the new Party chairman . ’ |
5 | There would be revealed the incredible amount of effort which in the name of ‘ god ’ , has been expended on all those evil things that it should be the objective of the kind of religion that the human race hungers for , to banish from the face of the earth . |
6 | The resignation of do Nascimento led to speculation that he would be given the key role of director-general of the national electoral commission , as the government came under increasing pressure from the USA , Russia and Portugal to hasten election preparations . |
7 | With luck this wretched selection of " heroes " would be given the soft pedal an indistinct crowd of corpses and a few grateful faces , cannons and prancing horses would be best . |
8 | ( In line with a review of the Constitution the President had said in November 1989 that free elections would be held the following year in which " all political currents will be able to express themselves and share power " . ) |
9 | In line with a review of the Constitution Siyad Barre said in November 1989 that free elections would be held the following year in which " all political currents will be able to express themselves and share power " . |
10 | The light cast by one of the infrequent street lamps glistened on a freshly pasted poster extolling the virtues of Commendatore Ruggiero Franco Miletti , whose funeral would be held the following afternoon . |
11 | Since it would be a temporary work programme , and not a training scheme , these ‘ intermediate workers ’ would be paid the weekly rate for the job , minus the pay for the day spent searching for an alternative form of employment . |
12 | He sat in silence , afraid whatever he said would be taken the wrong way , and wished they would leave him in peace . |
13 | For the potential risks condition , analysis of variance with two within-subjects factors shows that there is once again a significant main effect of junction risk , F(1,9)=43.01 , p<0.01 , as would be expected the high risk junctions tended to have more potential risks . |
14 | We , as a society , could learn from that , and , if we regarded the birth of every disabled child as a precious gift and were prepared to provide the necessary resources to the children and their parents to allow these gifts to develop , then perhaps we would be spared the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's blindness , deafness or other disability at whatever cost to themselves , their families and friends . |