Example sentences of "[noun] would be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the school 's stated intention to involve parents as far as possible , I seriously doubted whether Mr or Mrs Singh would be capable or prepared to enter into the kind of partnership the school envisaged . |
| 2 | Instead , he ordered parliament to be summoned for a special session on Nov. 7 at which V. P. Singh would be given the opportunity to prove his government 's viability . |
| 3 | Thus , many more of the world 's waterways would be permanently frozen . |
| 4 | If it did , crowds of enormous humans would come clumping all over our beloved forest to look for Minpins and our quiet homeland would be ruined . ’ |
| 5 | In the absence of charters , the new colonies on the south shore devised constitutions of their own : Connecticut 's Foundations in 1639 were primarily concerned to bring a group of separate towns , each with a rural hinterland , together as one colony with a congregational approach to religion which would avoid the dangers of conflict and division , while the Constitution of Rhode Island , established in 1643 , took a long step further towards complete commitment to the view that no particular variety of religion would be given a special position and that everybody would be allowed to carry on worship freely . |
| 6 | However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous . |
| 7 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 8 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 9 | In eight knots of true wind the optimum boat speed would be about 6.15 knots at a true wind angle of 44 ° . |
| 10 | In 14 knots of true wind , the optimum boat speed would be about 7.15 knots at a true wind angle of 40 ° . |
| 11 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 12 | The court would be unwilling or unable to determine what speed would be expected from a competent getaway driver . |
| 13 | your top speed would be two hundred and seventy two miles an hour ! |
| 14 | The ordinary hyphen is used between words that are hyphenated wherever they appear in a line and when those words would be split by a line-ending at the hyphen-point : eg well-known , time-consuming , up-to-date . |
| 15 | As the majority of the words would be shorter than this , there would a large amount of wasted space . |
| 16 | If -ed , -ing , -er and -tion are all compressed , the tree representing just over 70,000 words would be reduced from 2,628,928 bytes to 1,972,416 bytes . |
| 17 | The preceding discussions have established that in a number of cases , some kind of lexicon search by general information about words would be useful to correct any detected errors within the script recognition system . |
| 18 | ( Consider the nonsensical case where the core vocabulary is only half a dozen words — strong overlaps between words would be almost inevitable ! ) . |
| 19 | If they also observe the principle of Conventionality , then on those occasions where the meanings of new words would be identical to those of conventional words already known , they should give priority to the conventional words . |
| 20 | Any English cookery writer who published a recipe opening with these words would be thought distinctly out of touch . |
| 21 | Then in case of recriminations afterwards , the client 's own words would be safely recorded on tape . |
| 22 | Sequences of words would be flashed up on a VDU , so quickly that — in theory — they could only be perceived subliminally . |
| 23 | My final words would be caveat emptor — let the buyer beware . |
| 24 | If not , the identification of subsequent words would be hindered . |
| 25 | It is likely that a procedure in which search statements were split into portions which match subject heading subfields as well as into ( weak-stemmed ) words would be something of an improvement . |
| 26 | He might be kind , gentle even , but his words would be no more than a courteous cloak of indifference ; for had n't she now joined the ranks of women who wanted him ? |
| 27 | In cases of " innocent publication " , where the defendant has not intended to criticise the plaintiff ( either because the defendant did not realise that the words would be understood to refer to the plaintiff or the defendant is unaware of special circumstances which make them defamatory ) liability may be avoided by making an " offer of amends " under s4 of the 1952 Defamation Act . |
| 28 | sort of a figure of speech , but with narrative it 's it was always understood that the words would be spelled out more |
| 29 | words would be spelled out more yes . |
| 30 | In our hypothetical ‘ mechanical speech ’ all words would be separate units placed next to each other in sequence ; in real connected speech , however , we sometimes link words together . |