Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if a human pilot could get those birds up there , he 'd be flying on a kiss and a promise . |
| 2 | For instance , we 'd be working on a style of music , like maybe rockabilly , and he 'd say , ‘ Have you ever done any psychedelic drugs ? ’ |
| 3 | A meeting of ministers from the 16 German Länder in Dresden on Dec. 14 , 1990 , discussed the possible imposition of a quota for Soviet Jewish immigrants , but on Jan. 9 , 1991 , Wolfgang Schäuble , the German Interior Minster , announced that they would be handled on a " generous case-by-case basis " . |
| 4 | Institutions doing mainly advanced work would be funded on a programme basis , while those with only small amounts would be funded in respect of individual courses . |
| 5 | Payment would be based on a pooled system : if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared . |
| 6 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 7 | However , the evolution of complex living creatures ( not just humans ) would be based on a high information content greater than could be found , say , in the bacteria of the atmosphere of the Jovian planets . |
| 8 | The decision to go ahead or not would be based on a business assessment of the development costs against potential revenue , and the decision would be strongly influenced by customer input . |
| 9 | It would be based on a variety of forms of public ownership which would enable people to be masters of their own lives and to give full play to their energy and abilities . |
| 10 | Evolution was thus to be portrayed as an ever-branching tree , and a good classification system would be based on a correct identification of the crucial points at which the branchings took place . |
| 11 | A judgement sample , therefore , would be based on a selection of companies representing the different scales of operation ( or strata ) within the industry as a whole . |
| 12 | André Breton , self-styled ‘ pope ’ of the surrealist movement , contrasted a high modernist aesthetic in which all art would be based on a musical model with the surrealist ( and , in the present context , postmodern ) idea that all art should partake of a visual mode . |
| 13 | The Britain of the nineteen nineties and beyond , according to her , would be based on a service sector . |
| 14 | The work of the commission , comprising senior USSR and Russian Federation government members , would be based on a radical draft programme announced by Yeltsin on July 20 which envisaged a 500-day dash to a full market economy in the Russian Federation . |
| 15 | At a summit meeting in June US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev formally confirmed that a START treaty , which they expected to be completed by the end of 1990 , would be based on a 30 per cent overall cut in long-range nuclear missiles over a seven-year period . |
| 16 | The General Assembly on Dec. 19 established the post of a UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator , whose secretariat would be based on a strengthened Office of the UN Disaster Relief Co-ordinator and the consolidation of existing offices which dealt with complex emergencies . |
| 17 | The man , who is known to police as a leading paramilitary figure , said future IRA attacks on the Shankill would be matched on a scale similar to the Jamaica Street incident . |
| 18 | It is no consolation in defeat to reflect upon the correctness of NSS 's psephological analyses over many years , expressed most recently in our view that this election would be decided on a small number of votes in a handful of crucial decider seats . |
| 19 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 20 | By these , creditors would meet to consider proposals for a voluntary arrangement which would be binding on a dissenting minority , and approve a trustee . |
| 21 | The sample would be stored on a culture plate showing only the patient 's age and the location of the laboratory . |
| 22 | Contracts would be made on a competitive basis with the hospital providing the ‘ best buy ’ . |
| 23 | HLCAs would be paid on all livestock up to 250 LUs per farm and the rate would be adjusted on a handicap factor from 50% of the HLCA base rate on better inbye land , to 80% on poorer inbye and up to 150% on poorer rough grazings . |
| 24 | The chicks would be maintained on a miniature life-support system in what is known as a stereotactic device . |
| 25 | Traditionally , 24 hours of heart beat would be recorded on a device using a cassette tape , which works perfectly well , but it has the obvious problems of mechanical parts , moving parts , it makes a noise that might keep you awake at night . |
| 26 | Interviewing for places would be conducted on a regional basis , and fees paid by the LEAs ( who would receive government grants ) . |
| 27 | The statement promised that all future negotiations between Ontario and the province 's 180,000 Indian population would be conducted on a government-to-government basis . |
| 28 | The two sides also agreed that elections scheduled for the second half of September 1992 would be conducted on a basis of proportional representation and that the post-election regime would be " semi-presidential " , with the president serving a five-year mandate , renewable for three terms . |
| 29 | Abadia emphasized , however , that port calls and repairs by US warships would be conducted on a commercial basis and would be available on the same terms to vessels from other countries . |
| 30 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |