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 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 3 | These would be undertaken by a number of organizations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The constitution would be confirmed by a referendum within 30 days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The space of the hall would be defined by an electron cloud : the volume required for one or more electrons to revolve about the nucleus at high speed . |
| 12 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | These cuts would be offset by a variety of direct payments to farmers . |
| 19 | These expenses would be offset by a reduction in unit labour costs . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | But his timings are critical because they reflect the mood Mahler wanted the music to project , a mood that would be destroyed by an excessively slow tempo . ’ |
| 22 | Accordingly , postponement of retirement would be rewarded by an increased pension . |
| 23 | The civil rights of the citizen would be secured by a Bill of Rights based on the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 24 | The loan would be secured by a mortgage on the borrower 's property . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | " Also , very tall people would be penalised by a length limitation . " |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It would be assisted by a " national advisory body " . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |