Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [noun] would " in BNC.

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1 Notice that workers who set their wages at the end of even periods believed , in the even period t - 1 , that the price level in odd period t would remain unchanged in period t + 1 .
2 And it was precisely what in normal circumstances Lisa would have done .
3 He was an excellent storyteller and in normal circumstances Loretta would have enjoyed his acerbic comments on his colleagues ' conduct at the meeting .
4 The implication was that only the retailers in each destination market would be permitted to vary prices according to local conditions .
5 In that way Rocky would get chance to play and develope , Strachan would be able to run rings round the opposition and maybe we get get to beat the scum for a change .
6 Even in that company Beatrice would look original ; sometimes she carried an open wicker basket with a live duck inside .
7 In that case ACT would have been paid at source but there would be no additional charge .
8 In that case nature would be capable of wilful deception and all scientific investigation would be a waste of time .
9 Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared .
10 In European countries virtue would be found to linger in remote and rural communities .
11 Some US$30,000,000 held by Gen. Aoun in European bank accounts would be frozen pending a negotiated settlement .
12 In the Offer for Sale document published at the time of the Company 's flotation in 1986 , it was stated that in due course consideration would be given to the introduction of a Share Option Scheme for Executive Directors and senior management but that no such scheme would be operated without the prior approval of shareholders and in any event not before 1988 at the earliest .
13 Does she recognise that the inequity and injustice done to her party through , for example , no Conservative Members of Parliament being returned in 12 Glasgow constituencies would be redressed by the granting of proportional representation throughout the United Kingdom ?
14 ‘ acceptance of the proposition that the member state in which a company seeks to establish itself may freely apply to it a different treatment solely by reason of the fact that its registered office is situated in another member state would thus deprive article 58 of all meaning .
15 In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants , scourging away for all he was worth .
16 When Jordana informed Ambassador Hayes in November 1942 that an Allied landing in French North Africa would be considered an act of aggression against Spain , he was undoubtedly expressing Franco 's , not his own , view .
17 In advance of the operation , the Americans had assumed that Giraud 's prestige in French North Africa would clear the way to a rapid ceasefire .
18 It is unthinkable that in this passage Mozart would have written dots inst .
19 So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ?
20 As my legs and arms suddenly felt shaky like they were going to give way , I decided that in this case ignorance would indeed have been bliss .
21 In this case ideology would simply be a way of loading the dice in one 's own favour and hence since the ground rules would obviously vary there could be no way of ever comparing two ideologies .
22 In this case Woolwich would , in relation to the revenue , have been no worse off if they had refused payment of the tax claimed and raised the defence which subsequently proved successful .
23 A company seeking to recruit in this specialty area would , if they used a search consultant , immediately reveal themselves as not having the right contacts in the market .
24 In this way fertility would be renewed and another season begun .
25 In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items .
26 In this way boredom would be kept at bay ; and universities might have some notion of the especial talents of some of their candidates .
27 In this cycle emphasis would be on achieving acceptable standards of oracy and literacy ( in Sesotho ) , though oral English is also introduced , together with adequate numeracy and other basic elements : i.e. coordination of eye and hand ; simple powers of observation and reasoning based on the home , school and local environment ; personal health habits and positive attitudes appropriate to the age of the child .
28 If children approached schooling in this manner schools would have no wish to ‘ lose ’ their pupils , the throughflow of children with genuine adjustment problems in units would be assured and the ‘ moral order ’ re-established .
29 Quite rightly the Journal emphasized the importance of attracting industry to the town , and warned that if unsuccessful in this respect Cramlington would be in danger of becoming a dormitory town , resulting in social imbalance .
30 In some instances constraints would be imposed indirectly through the imposition of a duty to provide reasons ; in other cases the courts hinted at the limits they would set , such as if the decision was perverse or made in bad faith .
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