Example sentences of "would be [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Molly and Peggy introduced children 's classes from the earliest days of Medau — how fascinating it would be to turn back the clock and take a look at those Hampstead and Sidcup children !
2 He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor .
3 The B debt would have interest rolled up , and would be repaid once the principal on the A debt was repaid .
4 While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius .
5 We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers .
6 Soon they would be filling in the space with houses again .
7 If there were no regularity at all , if the sort of sensation which is caused by being in hot water were equally often caused by being in cold water , and vice versa , then we would be denied even the possibility of this notional classification .
8 Well I do n't think you can expect the County Council and the structure plan authority to have an idea of where the allocations are going because that would be taking on the role of the local plan preparation authority .
9 The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken .
10 One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act .
11 Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside .
12 WISDEN 'S appearance this year for the 129th time ( John Wisden , £21.50 hardback , £18.50 soft ) coincided with the announcement that Graeme Wright would be handing over the stewardship of one of cricket 's greatest traditions to Matthew Engel .
13 Far from ‘ force feeding ’ , the problem would be to assess selectively the enterprises deserving investment funds .
14 Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night .
15 And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock .
16 She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight .
17 The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens .
18 Used be able to sit in the car would be go up the back do n't they ?
19 ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’
20 His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company .
21 One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) .
22 The sea would start to roar at night , and the curlews would be hurled down the glen like dun-coloured bullets .
23 America would start to ease its trade embargo when the UN arranges a Cambodian ceasefire ; its veto on lending by the World Bank and the IMF would be relaxed once the ceasefire had lasted six months .
24 He said the situation would be reviewed once the summer trade was over .
25 If they thought the same way as Joe Punter , they 'd be Joe Punter , and somebody else would be having all the fun . ’
26 Instead of a ‘ Lock ’ ( or 9,000 cu. ft. of water ) being lost by the passage of a barge ( or barges ) through the ordinary wide lock — only about 90 cu. ft. or one — 100th part of a lock , would be passed down the Canal by the passage of one barge down the Canal and another barge up .
27 So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ?
28 A better move , would be to shore up the defence , Ken Monku might move considering Southampton position .
29 Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities .
30 Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ?
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