Example sentences of "would [be] put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 2 | Companies that were awarded routes might have the right to run services for , say ten years , before their franchise would be put up for sale again , like ITV companies . |
| 3 | A pledge on which a loan of more than ten shillings had been made would be put up for auction , but its owner could come and redeem it on any day up to that of the sale . |
| 4 | When I started playing with white men I was called a Nazi , a traitor and was told I would be put up against a wall and shot . |
| 5 | Some twenty-four people at least would attend these meetings and all would be put up in the château , or its annexe , and provided with lunch , dinner and breakfast the next day . |
| 6 | Legislation on " small " privatizations , whereby around 100,000 state-owned shops , restaurants and other small businesses would be put up for auction , had been passed on Oct. 25 , 1990 , after a long official debate on its pace and a spate of strikes by shopworkers fearing redundancy . |
| 7 | When the application period ended ( on June 8 ) an assessment of the results would be made and unsold shares would be put up for sale at a lower price . |
| 8 | The capital for the fund would be put up by the three governments . |
| 9 | Some of the ‘ Heavy rescue ’ men would come and continue shoring up the main walls , a roof would be put on at ground level . |
| 10 | The team were then treated to a meal and the mill manager presented them with the Challenge Trophy [ through gritted teeth ] and before the lads could get the lens caps off their cameras , they took it back , saying that the cup would stay at Rank 's but Rentokil 's name would be put on . |
| 11 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 12 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 13 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 14 | He was the supreme arbiter of protocol and courtly behaviour , and it was likely that he would be put out , to say the least , by the notion of a Kha-Khan who behaved with such a lack of reserve . |
| 15 | Adam Smith believed that competition among capitalists would give the public the opportunity to compare the quality and prices of goods , so that producers who were inefficient or who charged excessive prices would be put out of business . |
| 16 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 17 | By and large it does not , and it certainly did not in Margaret 's case : she merely laughed all the more , and sang the taunting hymns of her new faith , about how tyrants would be put down from their thrones and the humble and the meek raised up . |
| 18 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 19 | She hoped the hectic flush would be put down to the exertion of bending nearly double . |
| 20 | He declined to postpone his visit to Argentina , expressing confidence that a military rebellion which had begun there on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] would be put down by the government of President Carlos Saúl Menem , whom he thanked for sending two Argentinian frigates to the Gulf . |
| 21 | But it was not the blind peasant rebellions themselves which frightened governments — they were short-lived and would be put down with fire and sword even by liberals , as in Sicily — but the mobilisation of peasant unrest behind a political challenge to the central authority . |
| 22 | It is evident that the prosecuting authorities also had in mind to prosecute the applicant for implication in some of Mr. Turner 's offences , but a decision was taken in 1988 , and communicated to the applicant 's solicitors , that proceedings would be put back until after the B.M.F.L. trial . |
| 23 | Perhaps other bidders would be put off by his lack of enthusiasm . |
| 24 | I do not believe that they would be put off by a hostile bid not being ‘ good-form ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Thus readers are aware that Guide supports fonts ( etc. ) in some way , but can be totally unaware of the concept of logical objects — probably a good thing because evidence from the use of word processors indicates that if they did need to know about logical objects , they would be put off . |
| 26 | Unfortunately it is very likely that among the men and women best qualified by talent , temperament and experience to become MPs many would be put off by the conditions imposed by the STV on the winning and the retention of a seat . |
| 27 | Deep down , he knew that she would be put off by any direct approach . |
| 28 | Mr Eddie Philips , proprietor of the Jolly Judge , said neither his staff nor himself would be put off by any threats despite the attempted bombing at his premises last Wednesday . |
| 29 | The company had also trimmed £46,000 from its advertising budget , and would be putting up the price of cards from 20p to 25p . |
| 30 | This would be 4lb ( just under 2 kg ) of fat added to your body ; you would be putting on around 1 lb. |