Example sentences of "would [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir John , would the smell of blood drive Vulcan to a fury ? ’ |
| 2 | I suspect that not only would the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security concede that students have lost their entitlement to housing benefit and income support ; she would probably boast that it is the Government 's official policy that students should lose such entitlement . |
| 3 | When it came to actually making policy , however , and actually using ‘ the power we had to try to secure self-government in Indo-China ’ , not only would the problems of intervention against US allies presumably have been more difficult than against her enemies , but there was always the risk as well that circumstances might prejudice ideal or even optimum solutions . |
| 4 | ( On appeal to the Court of Appeal it was held that the imprisonment was not a repudiation but a ‘ self-induced frustration of the contract ’ Quaere , would an election to go to prison instead of paying a fine constitute a breach ( repudiation ) of contract no matter how long the prison sentence , or would the Court of Appeal put this conduct within the category of ‘ self-induced frustration ’ also ? ) |
| 5 | Would the effects on groundwater be wholly beneficial , or might there be problems ? |
| 6 | Would the cost of care depend on the serum sodium concentration ? |
| 7 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 8 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 9 | Would the Secretary of State consider short-termism among investors as a suitable excuse for the rocky position of sterling on the foreign exchange markets ? |
| 10 | What advice would the Secretary of State offer that young lady , apart from consulting the job seekers charter ? |
| 11 | But , if we did , what would the position of crofting be ? |
| 12 | Certainly only in the next batch of cantos ( post-1930 ) , which began with extended excerpts from the founding fathers of the Republic , would the scale of magnitude of the poem become apparent , also its topicality and its Americanness . |
| 13 | Why would the inclusion of money deposited at call with the discount houses in any of the definitions be a case of ‘ double counting ? |
| 14 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 15 | If the centre was given some notice of the team 's arrival , and if the team were lead by a SCOTVEC officer , then not only would the profile of subject assessment be raised but the centre could use the presence of so many SCOTVEC staff in a positive way for staff development purposes . |
| 16 | ( Perhaps for the cost of a few ‘ rescue ’ digs , in fact , which by their random nature all too often tend to be repetitive or fragmentary in their findings and which further our understanding of the past less than would the establishment of evidence confirming prehistoric alignment practices . ) |
| 17 | Extemporised hate would not be covered , nor would the tragedy of loss . |
| 18 | Would the children of Sea House be happy ? |
| 19 | Would the Department of Employment be willing to co-operate on that ? |
| 20 | How w what would the units of acceleration be ? |
| 21 | For some reason he found himself wondering whether it would penetrate to the forest floor , or would the ground-cover of pine needles remain dry and fragrant ? |
| 22 | Would the balance of power tilt further ; would the liberal constitution of limited participation and limited intervention be forced to expand outwards and assume a liberal-democratic form in which all adults had the vote ? |
| 23 | by how much would the wages of telephone operators have to be cut in order to prevent the installation of modern , automatic switching equipment ? |
| 24 | Would the moment of conquest signal the end of his interest in her ? |
| 25 | Should there be specialist social workers in area teams with responsibility for developing dementia teamwork , or would this be more properly the function of the specialist social worker for the elderly ? iii Would the care of dementia sufferers as well as that of other groups be enhanced is care of the elderly was integrated at local level , uniting the functions of the geriatric and psychiatric services , or uniting both with social services for the elderly ? vi Alternatively would it be better to pursue the Griffiths proposal of Community care as an integrated organisation for the planning and delivery of care to a variety of disabled groups ? |
| 26 | Can a younger lover beat the ageing blues — or would a change of style do the trick for you ? |
| 27 | One of the older Gnomes , who had a face like a wrinkled nutcracker and bright twinkly eyes , asked would a bit of magic be of any use anywhere , because was n't magic a powerful thing when you had a difficulty , and the other Gnomes said to be sure it was . |
| 28 | Would a prohibition against rape be non-neutral ? |
| 29 | Only if a legal system was eventually brought in would a breach of contract become a criminal breach of the law . |
| 30 | Only by the merest chance would a traveller through space happen upon the planet Earth ; a tiny jewel of a place , orbiting an unexceptional star in an ordinary galaxy , but — miracle of miracles — providing precisely those conditions , neither too hot nor too cold , nor too dense nor too sparse , where the astonishingly delicate processes of life can unfold . |