Example sentences of "would be [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A democratic approach would be that a majority of the band constitutes the necessary authority to make decisions . |
| 2 | Probably the most accurate statement would be that a person intends to kill if it is his or her purpose to kill by the act or omission charged , or if he or she foresees that death is practically certain to follow from that act or omission . |
| 3 | Compared with the case in which A and B have not been pre-trained , the consequence of A-X and B-Y associations having been pre-established would be that a new response could be acquired very readily by stimulus A without any increase in the extent to which generalization occurs to stimulus B. |
| 4 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 5 | But whatever the reasoning behind these considerably increased benefits for women carers , the result would be that a woman with ‘ dependants ’ would have a reasonable income , whether she is married or not . |
| 6 | Perhaps a satisfactory solution would be that a signatory State should be under an obligation to publicise a positive decision not to ratify a treaty . |
| 7 | One right would be that a sale of the business will require the consent of the holder of the golden share . |
| 8 | A tentative reply to these questions we think would be that an attempt to construct a purely feminist demand around housing presents major problems , in the way that demands around financial independence , sexuality , childcare and so on , do not . |
| 9 | In the event of Conservative defeat , one of the great questions never to be answered would be whether a decision to postpone full-scale implementation of the various forms of opting-out , in favour of local experiments , might have saved them . |
| 10 | The only exception would be if a child 's life was in danger . |
| 11 | how serious the consequences would be if a bad decision were made ; and |
| 12 | An example of the latter would be if a voiced sound that you want to practise becomes voiceless adjacent to a voiceless sound forming part of the frame . |
| 13 | An example of 4.3C would be if a person 's withdrawn , defensive personality made it difficult for her to establish close friendships , and if those same characteristics of personality , rather than her lack of friendships , made her prone to depression . |
| 14 | The kind of occasion when this injunction might apply would be when a prisoner deliberately fasts to bring about a change in his status , or else to cause the maximum amount of embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 15 | An example would be when an extra record is added for each project in a company every day . |