Example sentences of "[verb] would [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Whether , or what , compensation accrued would be determined by impartial tribunals , judicial and expert .
2 And now this was the thanks they got , these tears of hers , this dismay at what they had trusted would be hailed as good news .
3 The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh .
4 As a result they would accord the lower orders some respect and the arrogance which high status tends to encourage would be tempered with a degree of humility .
5 Mr Kishen prudently praised his royal rival , but he felt her appeal would be limited to Deeg and other rural areas where admiration for the ex-ruling family remains strong .
6 The stimulus to demand would be felt during a period of expansion and so would exacerbate any inflationary pressures which might be building up .
7 : The decision by the Attorney General not to prosecute would be construed as a vindication of the legality of the ‘ arrest ambush ’ at William Black 's cottage .
8 It is at least possible that Parliament when the Acts of 1974 and 1976 were passed did not anticipate that so widespread and crippling use as has in fact occurred would be made of sympathetic withdrawals of labour and of secondary blacking and picketing in support of sectional interests able to exercise ‘ industrial muscle . ’
9 Without exploring drivers ’ memories for driving in other circumstances it is impossible to know what normal memory performance in driving would be expected to be .
10 But er , the only , the only , yes , no the only other thing I would of said that you could of perhaps done would be go to a Local Authority ombudsman
11 These tracts did in part reflect a radical Whig philosophy : for example , the connection was made between a standing army in peacetime and absolutism , and it was also suggested that the right to resist would be nullified by a standing army .
12 But the parts of the company which the sceptics said would be disposed of , particularly its headquarters at Kenley where it has a training division and research laboratories , have all been kept and will be , says Mr Hawkes .
13 Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells .
14 It was typical of her that , although she regarded Hank as a child , she did not ask who would be supervising the group she imagined would be travelling to New York .
15 I should like to speak longer , because the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) spoke about the losses that he envisages would be incurred by the development of the station at King 's Cross , and if I had the time I should love to expand on the economic benefits that could be achieved in employment terms , the environmental benefits that would accrue to the area and the safety benefits that would be brought about by the Fennell provisions in the Bill .
16 On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements .
17 He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could .
18 Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power .
19 The fuel does however contain high levels of dangerous metals such as nickel and vanadium , but the stations to which it is supplied would be expected to be fitted with filtering equipment .
20 The way the universe would begin would be determined by the laws of science .
21 Equally , in construing a rent review clause , the court has been aided by a consideration of valuation methods which the parties must have envisaged would be applied at the review date ( Pivot Properties v Secretary of State for the Environment ( 1980 ) 41 P & CR 248 ) .
22 He 'd arrived just after Vespers to collect the message he had been told would be waiting for him .
23 A simultaneous assault would be made by 4000 of the army which had taken Gosport , while the boats landing on Portsea Island would return to the Isle of Wight to bring the total force up to 20,000 men , and eventually , for the siege of Portsmouth , to 30,000 , an operation de la Rousselière predicted would be completed in a week .
24 It was inevitable that the RCM commitment to accepting help from wherever it was offered would be seen by orthodox Jews as a betrayal and a challenge .
25 The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter .
26 It is suggested that an active policy to gain consent and then disclose would be supported by the law .
27 The peace that the Old World could not keep would be enforced by the New World .
28 Cash raised would be used on improving public transport and funding energy conservation measures .
29 In Cheney v Conn [ 1968 ] 1 All ER 779 , a taxpayer challenged an assessment of income tax made under the Finance Act 1964 on the ground that part of the money raised would be used for the manufacture of nuclear weapons contrary to a treaty , the Geneva Convention , to which the United Kingdom was party .
30 ‘ It 's a bit like blackmail , especially the part which points out all the money raised would be spent in their hospital . ’
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