Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Klerk also ordered the dismantling of the SSC secretariat , whose functions would be handled by a Cabinet committee for security matters . |
| 2 | These would be undertaken by a number of organizations . |
| 3 | Adjudication would be undertaken by a panel of distinguished doctors and psychiatrists and , to the delight of the press , he went on to say that the finals would be screened worldwide . |
| 4 | If they broke the vow a curse would ensue according to which they would be savaged by a bear , split apart by an axe , knifed to death or even choked by food . |
| 5 | Explicit collusion would involve the firms in talking to each other , explicitly agreeing to produce half the monopoly output each , and , quite possibly , agreeing also that deviation by one would be punished by a price war . |
| 6 | In a short , unexpected speech the King announced that the central commission would be chaired by a judge and would have an Interior Ministry representative and representatives chosen by each of the eight political parties represented in the Chamber of Representatives . |
| 7 | Faced with the reality that newspapers ( and television stations ) were no more than private organs for private gain , commentators could only hope that private ownership would be tempered by a social conscience . |
| 8 | The constitution would be confirmed by a referendum within 30 days . |
| 9 | A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party . |
| 10 | Then , in a letter to the company 's London headquarters , he said that unless he was paid , items would be injected by a qualified chemist , causing ‘ pain , suffering and possibly death ’ to customers . |
| 11 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 12 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 13 | Suppose , for example , that what is commonly known as the general , or the community 's , interest would be served by a certain public scheme such as compulsory education in mixed ability schools whose students are drawn from mixed social backgrounds . |
| 14 | Indeed , David Kirby stressed how the L&SE call on the PSO grant would be limited by a continued reduction in fleet size ( from 7,465 vehicles to 7,050 vehicles within two years ) and by running fewer and shorter trains to adapt to ‘ reduced demand ’ . |
| 15 | These cuts would be offset by a variety of direct payments to farmers . |
| 16 | These expenses would be offset by a reduction in unit labour costs . |
| 17 | The Transport Department is said by the report to " have recently admitted that they only put a nominal value on public open space which would be destroyed by a proposed road scheme " . |
| 18 | The civil rights of the citizen would be secured by a Bill of Rights based on the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 19 | The loan would be secured by a mortgage on the borrower 's property . |
| 20 | As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 . |
| 21 | " Also , very tall people would be penalised by a length limitation . " |
| 22 | A port of some significance was staffed by a group of customs officials — headed by a collector , who would be assisted by a varying number of additional supervisory officers and a body of tidesmen and boatmen . |
| 23 | It would be assisted by a " national advisory body " . |
| 24 | Their complaint was that the accountancy expert was going to interpret the agreement , which was a matter of law , and that he had announced that he would be assisted by a law firm . |
| 25 | Mr Jordan and Mr Stone have until 12 November to register an appeal , which would be heard by a committee chaired by a Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 26 | The latter is more efficient and can be thought of by analogy with the translation of , say , a whole poem in English by a whole poem in Chinese ( perhaps by pound ) , with no line-to-line correspondence , but only an overall ‘ sameness of meaning or function ’ ; whereas , on an ‘ interpretation ’ view , a Chinese poem would be constructed by a line-by-line translation of the English one . |
| 27 | The cash would be matched by a similar sum from private companies . |
| 28 | The result will be less effective than would be achieved by a teacher in harmony with the unit ; indeed the contribution of the unit may have , on balance , been destructive . |
| 29 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 30 | Although promoters may employ reputable consultants , it is difficult for a consultant to a project to put all the disadvantages from the environmental point of view as thoroughly and firmly as would be done by a totally neutral person . |