Example sentences of "[pron] would be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 2 | She would be ten minutes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After an interlude , the man who would be sage returns with an acoustic guitar and offers chestnuts like ‘ Passionate Friends ’ for perusal . |
| 5 | Would the Princess like to recommend two single girls of good breeding who would be acceptable guests ? |
| 6 | Anglo-Saxon law recognized that a peasant who prospered became a thegn and the thegns were a wide class including folk who would be called knights and folk who would be leading barons after the Conquest . |
| 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 | An " heir " indeed , Miss Gristy , yes , an heir to base lies and fornication , and if I had my way you would be joint heirs to a pile of dry wood too , together with flint , steel and a box of tinder ! " |
| 9 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 10 | Erm I think there would be environmental problems , I think there would be major problems of sustainability because quite clearly , er scale migration into North Yorkshire would be accompanied in significant past by back out er of North Yorkshire , particularly to Cleveland er and to West Yorkshire . |
| 11 | We have never denied that there would be environmental costs — I hope that the hon. Member for Caerphilly ( Mr. Davies ) recognises that . |
| 12 | But the BR source warned that there would be environmental objections to the alternative route , which would have to cut across other parts of Kent and marshes in Essex . |
| 13 | If I did that , there would be nasty questions from the Bermuda authorities when the sisters discover that the money 's gone . ’ |
| 14 | There would be dark fortresses in that world as well , and the skies would be forever heavy and lit to a reddish glow with the incantations and the dark sorcery that would rise like a miasma from the dark citadels … |
| 15 | Sometimes , naturally , there would be strong disagreements , but more often than not , the atmosphere was dominated by a feeling of mutual respect . |
| 16 | On the other hand , he realized that if he did , there would be financial penalties . |
| 17 | But perhaps she could say nothing , for Alida would not like it , there would be financial considerations . |
| 18 | On a first consideration one would not think that there would be appreciable stresses parallel to the crack surface but on reflection it will be seen that this must always be so . |
| 19 | In addition there would be religious festivals , a commemoration of some event in the life of the Buddha , or the founding of a monastery , sometimes even a commemoration of the appearance of a nat or spirit , and interestingly the funeral of a monk , a time of great rejoicing and festivity , for had not the holy man entered Nirvana , and he would return no more to the wearisome cycle of human rebirths . |
| 20 | In overall terms , there would be impressive savings ( particularly in energy costs ) if each produced only what each produced best . |
| 21 | There would be 27 constituencies for Indians , one for Rotumans and five for other races . |
| 22 | There would be tentative revelations , confidences , exchange of ideas , leading up to the inevitable ‘ Your place or mine ? ’ |
| 23 | Italy accepted that there would be economic disadvantages , though in the negotiations it successfully managed to gain some important concessions for its own steel industry : but the economic worries took a clear secondary position to the political factors which were the major motives for Italy 's participation . |
| 24 | Erm I think there would be environmental problems , I think there would be major problems of sustainability because quite clearly , er scale migration into North Yorkshire would be accompanied in significant past by back out er of North Yorkshire , particularly to Cleveland er and to West Yorkshire . |
| 25 | Obviously , since the whole economy was engaged in this process there could not be , according To Bukharin , a wholly unbalanced growth , even though there would be certain imbalances as a result of growth taking place in different sectors at somewhat different rates . |
| 26 | However for a load torque of 0.4 Nm the maximum operating speed would have to be limited to 200 steps per second and there would be additional problems in operating at speeds around 20 and 40 steps per second . |
| 27 | However , there would be additional seats allocated to parties on a regional basis , a minimum of 5% of the vote in any area of allocation being necessary to obtain any additional seats . |
| 28 | It was argued that if a proper socialist legal system existed in China these cases would probably never have happened , or if they did , there would be official channels of redress . |
| 29 | A blanket amnesty for those involved in guerrilla activity since 1985 had yet to be finalized and it was not known if there would be official inquiries into massacres by the military , especially that at Mooiwana in 1986 . |
| 30 | Policy would focus on economic efficiency , there would be explicit rules and guidelines ( including exemptions from the rules ) , there would be a relatively unified set of competition-policy institutions ( a strengthened OFT , and a reformed MMC to act as a tribunal to review the analysis and proposals for fines or remedies made by the OFT ) , and there would be penalties for abuses . |