Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie Sheen , who will play a dim-witted muscleman in the film , Hot Shots 2 , said : ‘ I 'd be flattered if a spoof was made of one of my movies . ’ |
| 2 | Er if you were a fairly decent criminal though you , you may well have a look through the windows to see if you can see any detectors on the wall , just to confirm it , because by now you 'd be thinking that a lot of these are dummies . |
| 3 | Such strains would be exacerbated if a trend developed in which young and middle-aged people opted out , only to return to the NHS when they were unable to afford the private premiums in later life . |
| 4 | At this stage , it was also important to establish that the best results would be achieved if a critical and constructive approach was adopted . |
| 5 | Edwards agreed last month to sell his stake of 51 per cent of the company 's shares to Knighton for £10m , but that deal would be scuppered if a court rules in favour of Edwards . |
| 6 | Only 34,000 people live in the area which could be affected by noise , compared with 143,000 who would be affected if a second runway was built at Manchester . |
| 7 | Only 34,000 people live in the area which could be affected by noise compared with the 143,000 who would be affected if a second runway was built at Manchester . |
| 8 | At the resumed talks it was agreed that Petur Mladenov , the State Council President and former Foreign Affairs Minister , would be elected President of Bulgaria ( his formal election being carried out by the Assembly on April 3 ) , but would be replaced when a newly elected legislature approved a new constitution . |
| 9 | This would be to hold that a justified belief is one which tracks the truth . |
| 10 | In the innermost pit , if the work of the scientists in the H area had been successful , it would be assumed that a nuclear explosion would generate a heat in the core of tritium/deuterium of one hundred million degrees Centigrade . |
| 11 | Under the new legislation , water levels would be monitored and a charge would be levied for water used for industry and agriculture . |
| 12 | By the end of that decade , it promised , the strongest and richest capitalist country , the USA , would be overtaken in total production ; by the end of the 1970s a state of abundance would be created and a communist society ‘ in the main' would be constructed , to be ‘ fully completed ’ over the following period . |
| 13 | The Austrian scheme , which has been broadly accepted by the EC , involves an " ecological carnet " , or customs document , in which a tally of each lorry 's emission levels would be recorded and a total number of pollution points allocated . |
| 14 | The last sentence was the cue for Miss Horsbrugh to announce to the House of Commons in April that the 10% Cut would be withdrawn and a Committee of Enquiry into adult education established instead . |
| 15 | As the coach thundered into Glasgow , the post-horn would be sounded and a blunderbuss fired into the air . |
| 16 | Four years ago , the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , overturned an independent recommendation that the centre remain open , and promised instead that a new hospital would be built and a post-graduate dental institute funded at the university . |
| 17 | In a vector GIS the set of M different output maps would be rasterized and a count made of the frequency that each cell appears in the final map . |
| 18 | A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport declared , however , that " environmentally kind alternatives would be studied before a final decision is made " . |
| 19 | A retraction would be broadcast when a new series of the programme begins in January . |
| 20 | Using conventional x-ray films , a bone loss of some 30 per cent would be needed before a clinician could be sure that changes had occurred . |
| 21 | Perhaps a graphic parallel would be to imagine that a country existed in the middle of Europe which was at one and the same time Catholic , Protestant , Jewish and Islamic , while sharing equally the cultural and economic influence of the USA , USSR , and China ! |
| 22 | An answer by return would be appreciated but a phone call will do ; you can contact me on Garstang ( 0995 ) 604755 after 5 p.m. most evenings . |
| 23 | It would be appreciated if a reply could be forwarded to this department by Friday 18 December 1992 . |
| 24 | It would be appreciated if a reply could be forwarded to this department by Friday 18 December 1992 . |
| 25 | It would be appreciated if a reply could be forwarded to this department by Friday 18 December 1992 . |
| 26 | Science and technology would be harnessed and a political dimension was introduced with the belief that the full potential of the new architecture could only be realized if established traditions were overthrown . |
| 27 | A two-storey building behind the main property would be demolished and a three-storey office block built . |
| 28 | A new constitution would follow one year later ; elections would be held after a peace agreement had been reached with the UNITA rebels " within a timetable to be defined by experts " . |
| 29 | 1064 was to investigate a violent death that was a matter of public concern and in circumstances where it was apparent from the beginning that an inquest would be held and a prosecution might follow . |
| 30 | The reason behind this hesitancy is again related to the grading of pupils ' performance and the fear that such grading would be taken as a value judgement on a pupil 's worth . |