Example sentences of "would [be] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event of Conservative defeat , one of the great questions never to be answered would be whether a decision to postpone full-scale implementation of the various forms of opting-out , in favour of local experiments , might have saved them . |
| 2 | The only feature that one could not predict would be whether the pendulum was orbiting clockwise or anticlockwise . |
| 3 | The key factor would be whether the presence of the trespasser should have been anticipated by Charles . |
| 4 | He suggested a better test would be whether the material would be judged as grossly offensive to an ordinary citizen . |
| 5 | The knot in her stomach tightened as she wondered how long it would be before the Cap'n discovered where Midnight was hiding . |
| 6 | The skin , he noted , was still tinged golden — that faint tone which signified to those in the know that he had been subjected to the bi-annual treatment of Longivex , the Imperial longevity drug which , because of the rarity of the poppy from which it was produced , was restricted to the élite , the favoured few such as the royal family , the privileged , the very rich — and he frowned as he wondered how long it would be before the absence of the drug showed in his physique and appearance . |
| 7 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 8 | ‘ I wondered how long it would be before the inquisition started up again . |
| 9 | The only exception would be if a child 's life was in danger . |
| 10 | An example of 4.3C would be if a person 's withdrawn , defensive personality made it difficult for her to establish close friendships , and if those same characteristics of personality , rather than her lack of friendships , made her prone to depression . |
| 11 | ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham . |
| 12 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 13 | If punishment is inflicted , it is claimed , the incidence of crime will be less than it would be if no penalty were imposed . |
| 14 | I wonder what these people 's reactions would be if the boss of their works told them he would have to cut safety standards because of the cost ? |
| 15 | The other thing that might contribute to er er improving matters would be if the compensation arrangements er were such that the er fund managers were involved in having to provide some of the compensa compensation if there were any to be paid , then there 's obviously a very good incentive for them to police themselves more thoroughly . |
| 16 | In Dean v Prince [ 1954 ] 1 Ch 409 , at 419 , Lord Evershed MR said that the most obvious case of mistake would be if the valuer omitted altogether to take account of some substantial asset or made a serious arithmetical miscalculation in regard to a single but material part of the whole process . |
| 17 | So the only justification for saying " the postgraduate study " would be if the writer had already named a group of types of study ( so creating the classification ) , and then compared the postgraduate element with an element of undergraduate studies . |
| 18 | Royalists might be asked to image what their reaction would be if the monarch started to revive ancient powers to dismiss governments or began refusing to give their assent to acts of parliament . |
| 19 | However , if the demand shock is iso-elastic ( as it would be if the firm 's production function were Cobb-Douglas ) , both the MD and the WD curves are unaffected . |
| 20 | Even if an airship is shot down , the loss is negligible , or would be if the reconnaissance machines were small , which , apparently is the suggestion . |
| 21 | The question may be raised as to what the position would be if the trust borrowed monies and the settlor simply gave a bank guarantee for the repayment of the borrowings by the trust . |
| 22 | There may be economies in using higher educational facilities as locations for events and academics as consultants ; and some of these resources may be cheaper than they would be if the company had to provide them as a call on the payload . |
| 23 | As he pulled the car off the highway into the gas station forecourt , it occurred to him that his only chance now would be if the pump attendant noticed something amiss and called the police after they 'd gone . |
| 24 | Then Monks said that he had all Oliver 's money safely now , but how funny it would be if the boy went to prison for stealing , after his father 's unfair will . ’ |
| 25 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 26 | If a Government department or Birmingham City Council enters into a contract with a building company for the construction of a block of offices , and a dispute arises , the law which governs the matter is essentially the same as it would be if the contract were between two private persons . |
| 27 | To pass the time , they told Verdeţ what his fate would be if the government resorted to violence to suppress the strike or to try and rescue them . |
| 28 | More immediately , before those years pass and there is any immediate prospect of monetary union , it must be recognised how vulnerable Britain would be if the Government 's strategy were to avoid commitment to the process under way in the European Community . |
| 29 | An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council . |
| 30 | The rate of increase of river flow will be greater in the urbanized basin than it would be if the basin were still covered by natural vegetation . |