Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 2 | An index would be prepared for a very large report but is somewhat unusual for the majority of reports . |
| 3 | Such failures would be difficult to trace without specialist equipment so most of us would be prepared for a bill , or at least the hassle of a return under guarantee . |
| 4 | My grey school skirt would be swapped for a rock-and-roll dirndl and six net petticoats , painstakingly dipped in sugar water to make them stiff when dry ; after the first four dances , the heat from my body would melt the sugar and my nylons would stick together . |
| 5 | The excellence of their design meant an interloper would be slowed for a moment to decide which was the real one . |
| 6 | Evolution in the computer would then really take off , for the conditions would be met for a self-reinforcing " arms race " ( see Chapter 7 ) , and I dare not speculate where it would all end . |
| 7 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 8 | The ground was comparatively dry , and she guessed the sea would be checked for a while by the dunes ; but not for long . |
| 9 | Usually one of Robert 's business prospects would be invited for a lethal dose of glamour . |
| 10 | The school secretary said all the September intake would be invited for a morning before the end of term . |
| 11 | In practice a set of objectives like these would be written for a series of teaching sessions for a specific student or group and may be varied to suit their experience and needs . |
| 12 | The new Constitution restores the name Republic of Afghanistan , and provides for an executive President and a bicameral National Assembly , the lower house of which would be elected for a five-year term , with the upper house being partly elected and partly appointed . |
| 13 | It provided for an executive President and a bicameral National Assembly , the lower house of which would be elected for a five-year term , with the upper house being partly elected and partly appointed . |
| 14 | Under the terms of the bill the future president and vice-president would be elected for a five-year term by a simple majority of the Assembly . |
| 15 | Should there be a diphtheria outbreak in the surrounding streets , one or other of us would be sent for a bottle of Fennings Fever Curer , either from Higgins or Newtons , the Catherine Street Chemists . |
| 16 | The government had originally announced on Feb. 14 that the election would be held on March 28-29 ; on March 28 it was announced that polling would be extended for a further day on account of heavy rains which had led to voters being discouraged by transport difficulties . |
| 17 | It was also reported in December that a 10 per cent wage reduction for public-sector employees , introduced in the 1989 budget and strongly opposed by the trade unions , would be extended for a further year . |
| 18 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 19 | At the end of January the government confirmed that the proposed referendum on whether the temporary merger of the Northern and Eastern provinces should be made permanent [ see p. 36735 ] would be postponed for a further six months . |
| 20 | Applicants were required to submit a research plan , and successful candidates ( now known as WIPers ) would be paid for a year of work at one of the new institutes . |
| 21 | Among new measures ( i ) a new " tax exempt special savings account " would be introduced from January 1991 ; and ( ii ) the rate of pool betting duty would be reduced for a five-year period to release funds to be devoted to the improvement of safety and conditions at football grounds [ for April 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster see p. 36597 ] . |
| 22 | Four months ' observations of QB 1 reveal an orbit that would be expected for a Kuiper-belt object , although there is still considerable uncertainty in the eccentricity . |
| 23 | However , as shown in Fig. 5 , there is an apparent inhibition of transcription following UV irradiation ( Fig. 5 ; P-P ( u ) and B-P ( u ) ) , as would be expected for a trypanosome gene transcribed by a distant promoter . |
| 24 | Luke , she knew , would be occupied for a long time yet , drinking coffee with the other women , talking over the day , helping to cement working relationships for the future . |
| 25 | However , the system of floating exchange rates was thought at the time to be a temporary feature of the international monetary system : it was hoped that a new framework would be found for a return to some kind of adjustable peg in which the burden of adjustment was clearly defined , both for deficit and surplus countries , and in which reserve assets were not based primarily on one currency . |
| 26 | Given that the land had been distributed to the peasants , Bukharin suggested that without the intervention of the state , that is , the proletarian state , the scene would be set for a ‘ new American-style cycle ’ , by which he meant the development of capitalist commodity production in agriculture with a process of centralisation taking place and the development of agri-factories . |
| 27 | Erm , Mr Brighton was was critical of the County Council in just using the residual method to determine the size of the new settlement , er and then in in backing up that justification erm referred to work that is included in in Barton Willmore 's proof , I 've I have read this survey work quite carefully , and my understanding of it is is that erm by un undertaking a survey of settlements in the county , they have established , albeit f f f for information purposes only , a population threshold for a particular type of service , erm , in in the North Yorkshire context , erm the implication I I understand from that is is that that is being used to justify a fourteen hundred figure or or whatever it is to achieve the level of services that would would be required for a a balanced integrated community to use the words for the guidance . |
| 28 | Under Ricardou 's encouragement , Robbe-Grillet 's compliance with such ‘ naturalizing ’ endeavours would be abandoned for a textual materialist perspective focusing on the self-referentiality of the practice of writing . |
| 29 | The chancel would be used for a bar , the pulpit and font used as containers for plants , and the nave filled with fixed ‘ banquette ’ seating in booths . |