Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she went to the Dordogne she would be facing a life that had gone on without her , a life that had not for one minute taken her into consideration . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , what she could n't understand was why any lass on the make would be lugging a child around with her . |
| 4 | The first move of a Government committed to re-establishing full employment comprehensively would be to initiate a rolling programme of moving Civil Service jobs from areas of high employment , mainly in the South , to those of high unemployment , predominantly in the North . |
| 5 | One way would be to form a holding company to which both banks would issue shares in proportion to their shareholders ' funds . |
| 6 | Now I 've had two of those rest days prior to all this so I would be owed a fortnight 's holiday pay plus three rest days . |
| 7 | But the woman has been told she would be breaking a law passed two years ago , which prevents sperm storage without the donor 's consent . |
| 8 | The EFTA countries , the richest countries in Europe as a group , would be granted a privileged relationship in return for a full share in the burden of supporting the economic development of Eastern and Southern Europe . |
| 9 | Between 1337 and 1353 the tax on wool formed part of a series of schemes under which the king attempted to establish a body of powerful and wealthy merchants who would be granted a monopoly in the purchase and export of wool in return for making loans to the king which would be repaid from the maltote , the export tax on wool . |
| 10 | On the other hand , they would have been inspired by the promise that they , as loyal adherents of the Messiah , would be granted a unique recompense for their fidelity and for any suffering they had incurred . |
| 11 | Moreover he persuaded his father to agree that if the terms imposed on the rebels last summer were not acceptable to them now — as obviously they were not — then they would be granted a fresh hearing in the King 's court . |
| 12 | Now , on the chaise to Banff , Boswell planned with Johnson that they would regenerate the University of St Andrews according to the abilities or conceits of the Club members , each of whom would be granted a Faculty or two . |
| 13 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 14 | To paint Prague would be to paint a dream , a city of ideas , where the intellect and emotions meet and boogy away the night in a haze of ideology . |
| 15 | My task was to record it as objectively as possible and leave the reader to judge , yet not to provide some indication of the effect it had on me would be to paint a very incomplete picture . |
| 16 | One possibility would be to employ a space shuttle to build a large gamma-ray detector in orbit . |
| 17 | One possible remedy would be to employ a time-varying parameter technique in estimation as in Browne and McNellis ( 1990 ) . |
| 18 | If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied , management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge ; Target should have no liability to capital gains tax under s178 or 179 , even though it would be leaving a capital gains tax group as a result of the de-merger and may have had assets transferred to it on a no gain/no loss basis within the preceding six years . |
| 19 | I think that it is fair to say that , if hon. Members on either side of the House had realised 10 years ago that we would be debating a sum of almost £2 billion , none of us would have recommended the one-track community care solution that has been adopted . |
| 20 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 21 | I would be addressing a putt and instead of thinking about it some political problem would come to mind . |
| 22 | But with the wind behind Forest I I would think Leicester would be expecting a lot of pressure . |
| 23 | In this situation , then , virtually everyone would be expecting a fall in the price of bonds and , therefore , capital losses for bond-holders . |
| 24 | This would be to substitute a judicial view as to , for example , the most appropriate way in which to allocate aid , or to disburse licences , for that of the public body . |
| 25 | Karoly Grosz , the outgoing general secretary , cut a lonely figure as he bowed out , dropping hints that in future he would be taking a back seat in politics . |
| 26 | Announcing that the company would be taking a $6,000m charge with its fourth quarter figures to cover 25,000 more voluntary redundancies and plant closures , mainly in the mainframe and disk drive businesses , and a $1,000m cut in research and development spending and an unspecified bigger cut in capital investment , chairman John Akers warned that while cash flow remains strong , current earnings expectations make the company unsure of its ability to maintain the dividend at current levels . |
| 27 | He also declared he would be taking a two- month break from the game , as has Ian Woosnam . |
| 28 | ‘ That would be taking a risk , ’ she agreed tartly . |
| 29 | Getting their hands on their own trains might seem attractive , but any manager tempted would be taking a big risk . |
| 30 | And I would if I 'm gon na use that term because I think I would be taking a flier with you . |