Example sentences of "would be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day . |
| 2 | A value of 255 would result in the corresponding phosphor dot on the screen receiving maximum illumination while it would be at half brightness if the value were 127 . |
| 3 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
| 4 | She would be on that flight even if Steve was n't . |
| 5 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 6 | ‘ One option would be for all schemes to be channelled through a single agency , so land managers only had one port of call for payments , ’ said the commission . |
| 7 | We will also be showing why continued research should be permitted , and how disastrous it would be for all women if the policy advocated by the Pro-Life lobby were to be adopted . |
| 8 | Much everyday reasoning about causes , however , seems to demand perfect relationships : ‘ Smoking does n't cause lung cancer ; the man next door to us got lung cancer and he had never smoked a cigarette in his life ’ , implying that the only cast-iron proof would be for all smokers to get lung cancer and for no non-smokers to get |
| 9 | The answer of course would be for all suppliers to put a ‘ sell-by or ‘ best before date on the boxes of test kits with a specific shelf life . |
| 10 | Oh , would be for that sort of money yeah |
| 11 | There would be erm the possibility of the unitary authorities themselves getting together to prepare joint structure plans , so in as , as , instead of having a joint authority with er members joining in , in one committee to oversee the preparation of the plan , there would be individual authorities er working to their own committees with members er operating separately , but preparing through that mechanism a joint structure plan and the third option would be for each authority itself to prepare a unitary development plan , incorporating both strategic policies and the sorts of policies that we are currently seeing and familiar with in local plans . |
| 12 | What would be more difficult would be for each group to resist both poles of power ( management and union ) and not become a caucus or adjunct of either . |
| 13 | One set of scenarios for the engineering industry suggests that in a country such as Norway , with small communities at the heads of the many fiords , an appropriate use of the technology would be for each community to have some equipment to produce particular parts of a product or to engage in particular parts of a production process . |
| 14 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 15 | It is not completely clear what the predictions of the literature on arousal and memory would be for this task . |
| 16 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 17 | If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied . |
| 18 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 19 | ‘ I am aware of the nature of it and how offensive it would be to most MPs and most people in this country . ’ |
| 20 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |
| 21 | When you went ashore it would be to some pub . |
| 22 | And , by itself , the ban — though symbolically disturbing — would be of little significance in the context of American scientific and academic strength . |
| 23 | This would be of little significance if the Chronicle in question were not the only source to record some important episodes . |
| 24 | However , simply to accord casual workers a dependent employee status would be of little relevance to them . |
| 25 | In most cases , the kind of predictions about successive words which are possible from the preceding context are much less specific and would select a very large class of words , which would be of little help in discriminating between possible candidates . |
| 26 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 27 | They might well prevail in any skirmish with the local forces , but in the circumstances that would be of little profit . |
| 28 | A majority for Imperial preference in a general election would be of little use from the Dominion point of view , since it was ‘ obvious that the whole system might be capsized in a year or two . |
| 29 | The last of these must be the overriding consideration ; it would be of little use to develop a unit on an unusual system not readily available to the target population in schools , and not likely to be available in the near future . |
| 30 | What O'Neillism did for Paisleyism was to raise in a concrete way the possibility of change from being a Protestant society and culture ( constantly threatened by the old enemy within and without ) to being a secular modern society in which religious affiliation would be of little consequence . |