Example sentences of "would be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving . |
| 2 | Well there would be a seat they would be facing each other in their seats . |
| 3 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 4 | ‘ I would imagine the thrust of the brief would be to turn occasional Church users into regular users . |
| 5 | Penny Black would be feeding more statistics on wife-beating in the West Midlands into her data-base , and Robyn 's mother would be giving a coffee morning for some charitable cause in her Liberty-curtained lounge with a view of the sea . |
| 6 | Mr Allan Edwards , director of the Anglers Co-operative Association , would be opposing all applications to abstract more water from the chalk streams of southern Yorkshire , which are famous for their wild trout . |
| 7 | A simple but far-reaching reform in libel law which would enhance freedom of expression would be to reverse this burden : to oblige the plaintiff to prove , on balance , the falsity or unfairness of the criticism . |
| 8 | Play-groups , mother and toddler groups and the teaching of parenting skills to families at risk would all feature in the family centres , but a subsidiary aim would be to explore different models of self help . |
| 9 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |
| 10 | In acknowledgement of the urgent need for reform in this area , de Klerk proposed initially that henceforth : ( i ) the death penalty would be limited as an option of sentence to extreme cases , and the area of judicial discretion in the imposition of sentence would be broadened ( currently the death sentence was mandatory for certain crimes ) ; ( ii ) all those sentenced to death would be granted automatic right of appeal — up till now there had been no appeal against this sentence ; ( iii ) no further executions would be carried out until Parliament had decided on the proposals . |
| 11 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 12 | Shortly after Gunter Krusche , a leading figure in the East Berlin Protestant church , said there were signs that the reformist New Forum would be granted legal status in several regions , police in East Berlin detained 15 members of the group and confiscated papers they were carrying . |
| 13 | He 'd not get her , I know , but he would be granted some access to her . ’ |
| 14 | However , the ICRC also reported that Iran would not accept doctors , technicians or other professionals ( with which it was well equipped as the result of its war with Iraq ) , sniffer dogs or blood plasma ( on religious grounds ) , or satellite communications equipment ; it also insisted that food must conform to Islamic rules , and that those delivering the aid would be granted 24-hour visas only . |
| 15 | As regards the legal position of some 350,000 Chinese living in Indonesia , it was eventually agreed that China would offer them citizenship , and that those who declined this offer would be granted permanent residency rights by the Indonesian government . |
| 16 | Its most likely function would be to enable one speaker to convey not only the matter of a remark by another speaker but also the manner in which it was made . |
| 17 | The ideal solution here would be to shift effective power in matters of auditors ' appointment and remuneration from the directors to the shareholders . |
| 18 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |
| 19 | It would be to let one maxim remind him of the treacherous limits of his information and the other of unconsidered consequences of delay , and try to fill both gaps in his awareness before letting himself be moved in one direction or the other . |
| 20 | If , as frequently happened , two of us would fall out and come to blows , then passers-by would stop , form a circle and watch without intervening , confirming their view that justice would be achieved this way . |
| 21 | Moreover , a US citizen accused of foreign bribery would be denied due process of law under the US constitution unless he could produce foreign witnesses and documents in his own defence . |
| 22 | The EEC further stated that the continuation of its economic support was contingent upon the unity of Yugoslavia , and that the constituent Yugoslav republics would be denied individual entry into the Community . |
| 23 | If a higher age is fixed , women would be denied free prescriptions and bus passes at 60 . |
| 24 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that Boris Yeltsin would be implementing those reforms if we had jumped the gun , as the Opposition wanted . |
| 26 | It would be done this time . |
| 27 | But there would be i i in terms of a communist strategy , in terms of an ideology there would be nothing within the countryside which would be promoting that movement towards socialism , that , that change through class conflict would there ? |
| 28 | It seems to me that all that we would be doing would be substituting one area for another in effect in terms of where that development is attracted from . |
| 29 | From now on , she told Yeats , romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment . |
| 30 | On the wave of redundancies which has hit London hard since Christmas , Mr Ainslie noted that sufficient cost-cutting had now been achieved but that Mrs Brooks would be taking that area in hand . |