Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The renewal would be on an annual basis . |
| 2 | They yearned for a society where the surplus product of labour would be at the disposal not of idle capitalists or degenerate gentry but of expert administrators . |
| 3 | But life under Labour would be like a nuclear winter . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at . |
| 5 | Even more streamlined for marine life were the ichthyosaurs ( 'fish lizards ' ) , which , as their name implies , include species that look remarkably fish-like , although perhaps the better analogy would be with the porpoises , a group of mammals that ‘ returned to the sea ’ , and may fill a similar role in modern seas to that of the ichthyosaurs in the Jurassic . |
| 6 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 7 | He mentioned that the sum required for restoration of the monument would be in the range of £20 000 to £30 000 punts . |
| 8 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 9 | Continued economic expansion and the widespread belief that Keynesian economic techniques provided governments with an effective tool for managing the economy had engendered the belief that the future would be like the present , but better , that economic growth would simply continue into the indefinite future , bringing more and greater benefits to all segments of society . |
| 10 | Even though the problem shows that the full crime was consummated , the culprits may be convicted of attempt or incitement , so that it may be relevant to mention these crimes — though normally , of course , the indictment would be for the completed crime , not for a mere attempt or incitement . |
| 11 | If we were knitting , the stitch would be behind the latch and would be knitted off . |
| 12 | The prediction would be for the ownership of cars to rise by 52,000 in 2 years , and so total market demand for cars in Panaragua in this period would be about 52,000 ( or slightly more , allowing for old cars being scrapped ) . |
| 13 | If UK companies had recognised in the 1960s or early 1970s the need to enter the high-volume chip business , Juleff thinks that the whole of the British electronics industry would be in a better state . |
| 14 | Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund . |
| 15 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 16 | The idea was to demonstrate the solidarity of the NATO alliance with a view to ensuring that negotiations with the Eastern bloc would be from a position of strength . |
| 17 | All their concentration would be on the great white wall of crashing surf ahead . |
| 18 | An arbitrary and unwarranted termination of their engagement would be against the organization 's own interests . |
| 19 | Balbinder would be in a group with ten children . |
| 20 | A final one-day visit by a ‘ core group ’ of members approved the scheme indefinitely and agreed that the future pattern of review would be on the basis of a rolling cycle established by the Polytechnic . |
| 21 | The focus would move from the determination of who is legally right and from consideration of the reasonableness of the employer 's action in the circumstances of the individual dismissal to the location of the dispute firmly in the realms of industrial relations , rather than employment law , where the search would be for a workable and acceptable solution which took account of the wider context . |
| 22 | People litigate such cases ( which is both risky and expensive ) only because they believe that if they succeed in persuading some judge that a new rule would be in the public interest , that new rule will be applied retrospectively in their own favour . |
| 23 | One theoretical possibility which is thought not to be found in actual practice would be for the plaintiff , in a state of origin which regarded service as a matter for the parties to handle , to be allowed to make a direct approach to the Justice Ministry or other central authority of the state of destination . |
| 24 | This is because the usual practice would be for the investment manager to deal only in its own name account client . |
| 25 | The alternative would be for the Court of Appeal to decide all the matters before it . |
| 26 | The alternative would be for the government to finance the state provision of broadcasting through general taxation . |
| 27 | Another alternative would be for the state to pay private sector firms to produce TV and radio programmes . |
| 28 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 29 | He says full government sponsorship would not be ‘ flexible ’ enough ; the ideal partnership would be with a waste management company . |
| 30 | So administration would be within the competence of any literate person . |