Example sentences of "[be] that [noun] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her worst fear had been that Jake would show up before they had even left Lomond View . |
| 2 | The BMA working party refers to ‘ alternative medicine ’ — misleading terminology since the medical establishment 's greatest fear in the past has been that therapists would influence patients to treat it as just that and reject orthodox medicine . |
| 3 | After Janey went back to Billy , Kevin had patched up his differences with his wife , Enid , but one of the conditions had been that Kevin would sponsor polo instead of show jumping to avoid bumping into Janey on the circuit , and because their daughter , Tracey , would meet a nicer class of young man in polo . |
| 4 | The value of the offer made by the bonorum emptor would certainly have taken into account the fact that the land was subject to trust ; the consequence of the lower offer would be that creditors would receive rather less than if no trust existed . |
| 5 | Sentence ( 2 ) leaves us in mid-air , guessing what the " thing " may be that Pemberton would like to hear " ; ( 3 ) provides the answer , but only in part . |
| 6 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 7 | In that scenario , the provisional supposition would be that Morgan would take over at the helm from Ian McGeechan , with David Johnston and Richie Dixon as his assistant coaches . |
| 8 | All reports I 'd heard were that Sterland would be fit by now . |
| 9 | If only two hundred were to be seen , then the chances were that Balliol would assume that this was their full strength . |
| 10 | The idea here is that citizens would be entitled to compensation for loss caused by the conduct of a particular activity regardless of whether that activity was conducted legally or illegally , in a faulty way or absolutely blamelessly . |
| 11 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 12 | What needs to be spelt out very clearly before polling day is that PR would bring about the opposite effect to what many voters comfortably believe . |
| 13 | One major principle of unit cost funding is that institutions would be treated equally according to some notion of the cost of their lecturers per student . |
| 14 | The conclusion is that Nkrumah would have otherwise won by the two-thirds majority which was the general election pattern . |
| 15 | possibility is that Marilyn would stay up there for another year with Carris you know in their house and Timothy of course and erm , then sort of move down here |
| 16 | Similarly , although Wilde ( 1988 ) claims that a potentially variable level of subjective risk is necessary for RHT , a prediction of RHT is that subjects would modify their behaviour in order to actually experience constant levels of subjective risk which would only alter if they changed their ‘ target level of risk ’ . |
| 17 | The clearer the disclosure and the description given of the effect of the loss of protections , the more likely it is that SFA would regard the customer as having sufficient understanding to qualify ; and ( 3 ) The customer must normally give consent in writing after getting a proper opportunity to consider the warning . |
| 18 | The probable implication is that science would need to be presented in the context of the needs of society and individuals . |
| 19 | available is that kids would be able to progress and their own level and independent of each other , and take the pressure of the teacher slightly . |
| 20 | Old Gustav may still have some old-time socialist ideals about the rights of man , but the general feeling is that Manfred would have done well on the faculty at Belsen . ’ |
| 21 | Sugar , in his sworn statement , said : ‘ Venables said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money , ’ said Sugar . |
| 23 | The contrary view is that television would damage the intimate character of debates and would encourage exhibitionism amongst those MPs seeking publicity . |
| 24 | Before it , the talk in the High Court corridors was that Meehan would be acquitted for lack of evidence , but it was a view that few held by the time it was finished . |
| 25 | The original intention was that Cramlington would be a free-standing newtown with a full range of shopping services . |
| 26 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |
| 27 | What they meant by that was that managers would do the kind of thing I 've just described like y'know transmit an ambiguous message orally rather than in a memo and visa versa . |
| 28 | Another aspect of the proposal was that Glaxo would set up a research centre and co-market Imigran with a French company . |
| 29 | In Hamlin 's opinion , the crucial thing about the result was that others would be grateful to Gloucester for knocking the champions down a peg or two . |
| 30 | The idea was that Davis would be the anchor man , the resident musician , and every week we would have one paid performer who would be highlighted as performer of the week , a tradition that was kept up throughout the history of the folk club and the Arts Lab . |