Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
2 | As far as the citizenship of entitlement as formulated by Marshall is concerned , Labour is opposed to the introduction of a Bill of Rights , for example , which would be one way of restoring the civil and political rights which have been eroded in recent years . |
3 | He agreed with Tuttle that the Laetoli creatures were not curling their toes under which would be one way to suggest that proof of compatibility — and one species — is based on a composite foot spanning both time and species . |
4 | The Westminster Press cost budget is now adjusted and they 're currently trading at a nine percent margin which would be ten percent if it was n't for the er , expenditure on er , Yorkshire on Sunday er , the circulation of which is growing very nicely . |
5 | She would be ten minutes . |
6 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
7 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
8 | But if the actual pressure is , say , 990 mbs you would be 700 ft lower ( one millibar equals 30 ft ) . |
9 | There would be 27 constituencies for Indians , one for Rotumans and five for other races . |
10 | As usual I had not named my squad so as to keep the opposition guessing — all I had announced was that there would be eleven players in the team . |
11 | Does the Minister agree with the figure given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Dispatch Box when he told us that there would be 40,000 mortgage rescues this year ? |
12 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
13 | They felt there would be two consequences to this which would disadvantage the arts in relation to other curriculum areas . |
14 | There would be two columns in the ledger : Tonight 's Takings , and Tonight 's Givings . |
15 | Well , there would be two choices open : Melodic Minor and Harmonic Minor . |
16 | ‘ There would be two criteria . |
17 | Now suppose that the path from C j to R i ends : , and – Then , for otherwise there would be two i s in the Kth column . |
18 | There would be two effects : the dependent financial relationships between husbands and wives would be considerably loosened , and unmarried women with dependants would have a substantial non-means-tested income as of right . |
19 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
20 | There 'd be cart there would be two cart loads anyway |
21 | The choice of a binary direction , along which there would be two types of higher education , was far from what the Robbins Committee had intended . |
22 | The rest of the time was devoted to history or geography , but always there would be two afternoons given over to handicrafts , particularly knitting and sewing . |
23 | Er , yes there would be two porters , yes . |
24 | Each node also has one pointer which if used , points to a variable length array of pointers to nodes ( each node is 32 bits + 1 pointer ) , so from the above example , there would be 10 elements in the array because 10 out of 26 bits are set . |
25 | It was expected that there would be 13 feet of water during the lowest tides . |
26 | The election also marks a further stage in the decline of the manual workers : for example , there would be 13 miners in the new parliamentary Labour Party , against 16 in the old , and 31 in the party Harold Wilson led back from the wilderness in 1964 . |
27 | If we could place decisions at nodes 2 and 3 as well as at node 4 there would be 5 paths through the graph instead of 12 . |
28 | It was originally stated that there would be eight stages . |
29 | Asked if she would abandon her attempt if they became ill she replied that she could not say in advance , and pointed out that there would be eight doctors , including one paediatric specialist , immediately to hand . |
30 | So in a maze with one four-way junction there would be four routes to explore and compare . |