Example sentences of "this would be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The sun flames orange and pink behind the trees above the house , the breeze is cool rather than cold , scented with flowers and the sea , and you think what a pleasant if rather bland place this would be to settle down . |
2 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
3 | In theory the whole of the extra cost to the innocent partners could be recouped from the individual responsible for the negligence , but in practice in most firms this would be regarded phlegmatically as just another expense of the business to be shared by all . |
4 | e.g. tenant has installed a fitted kitchen — this would be covered for the perils listed under the ‘ Insurance for your liability as a tenant ’ section of the policy . |
5 | The failure of the Senate to pass a law extending value added tax would leave a shortfall of P1,000 million , but this would be covered by proceeds from the sale on Jan. 30 of the state-owned Philippine Airlines . |
6 | This would be covered 2.6 times by earnings ( excluding additional tax ) or 2.3 times after fully allowing for additional Advance Corporation Tax ( ‘ ACT ’ ) . |
7 | This would be followed by a massive Sunday lunch , and then sleep all afternoon . |
8 | To say this would be to deny the universality of what Professor A. J. Ayer says it is natural for us to assume , namely that we use the same word in different situations because we have noticed a distinctive common feature . |
9 | Perhaps er er another way of looking at this would be to see it in terms of rightist deviations and leftist deviations and one might see erm the er the moderate policies er of thirty seven to forty nine i in a sense as being erm a rightist deviation , one might see forty six forty seven as being leftist deviations and the left is seeking to overcome rightist deviations , the right seeking to overcome leftist deviations and you 've got some kind of oscillation between the two . |
10 | If we specify what the R group is in this case , it 's a methile group this would be called methoxy so there 'll be methoxy group is the substituant . |
11 | The Morton group are seriously looking at adding more units to their press in order to give more colour capacity but this would be reserved primarily for advertisers and not for further editorial colour . |
12 | This would be to hold that a justified belief is one which tracks the truth . |
13 | Without that leverage , the RPF could either take a vow of self-imposed isolation ( in the hope that this would be rewarded by electoral victory in 1956 ) or risk its anti-system character by participating in parliamentary politics and even holding a share of power in coalition governments . |
14 | This would be soiled over to give a better finish than presently shown . |
15 | This would be detected by loops buried in the road at what are called key junctions and the data passed on to a computer which would issue the bills later . |
16 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
17 | Appeals against his conclusions would be heard by an independent tribunal , which would be able to impose penalties of up to 10% of turnover ( although initially this would be limited to £1m ) . |
18 | Even those who thought military sanctions might be necessary believed that this would be limited to using the Royal Navy to close the Suez Canal to the Italians . |
19 | Part of this would be earmarked for incentives to promote combined heat and power ( CHP ) energy and other sources . |
20 | The extreme example of this would be to paralyse the animal , which would increase the pain and terror of a man even though he was unable to display any sign of pain . |
21 | Yet even this would be disputed by a Davidsonian who insisted on the primacy of a language of identity , reference and quantification before crediting anyone with even the general notion of an object . |
22 | Mr Prescott , who plans to table amendments to the airport security bill , said Mr Parkinson was paying lip service to screening and giving no indication when this would be achieved . |
23 | If so , please describe how this would be achieved . |
24 | This would be achieved through extending the season and by increasing the number of people who could be accommodated per unit . |
25 | This would be achieved through cuts in the civil service , the freezing of public-sector wages and the privatization of state enterprises . |
26 | The entire programme was due to be finished by April 1997 , but most experts doubted that this would be achieved . |
27 | This would be achieved by formulating a convention on climate change , to include legally binding protocols on cutting emissions of gases which contributed to global warming , and provisions for industrialized countries to provide financial and technical assistance to Third-World countries to help them achieve this without forgoing the benefits of industrial development . |
28 | This would be achieved by looking at the chemical , biological , nutrient and aesthetic states of water . |
29 | One way to do this would be to treat a space as a legal character and build the whole of the set of compounds into the word recognition tree with an index at the end . |
30 | I must point this out and this would be pointed out whichever company you go into . |