Example sentences of "[n mass] would be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tank was then left for four days on the assumption that the fry would be free-swimming in five days . |
| 2 | If there are 26 million people at work in Britain , an increase in demand of not less than 10% would be needed to mop-up 4 million unemployed . |
| 3 | Normally , a discount of at least 10% would be expected from traders but it should be possible to obtain discounts of up to 30% from jewellers . |
| 4 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 5 | Sour Ltd is considering buying the whole of the 30% shareholding of the managing director at the agreed offer price of £68,500 , of which £46,500 would be payable in cash and the balance by means of £20,000 9% Debentures Years 60/61 . |
| 6 | Now not all the bi are divisible by p or else all the ai would be , contrary |
| 7 | If the proposal is accepted , it would mark the end of the Ronson empire , whose 100% stake in Heron would be reduced to 5% . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , 100,000 government jobs will go , along with 25% of White House staff , and 3% would be cut from the Federal agency administrative costs . |
| 9 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 10 | The data would be sent to a computer and , as with telephone calls , logged , costed and sent out in the form of a periodic bill . |
| 11 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 12 | Longitudinal data would be invaluable in providing this essential information in Britain . |
| 13 | By next year CIA companies will have submitted three sets of data as indicators of performance and the data would be shared with the public whether they are good or bad . |
| 14 | Even the speaker who was to tie the whole thing together admitted that the monkey data would be put to better use in various studies on the general subject of immunoregulation . |
| 15 | This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary . |
| 16 | At first sight , this may appear to be a poor performance but it is in fact over twice as frequent as a random selection ( which for this data would be 32.7% of cases ) . |
| 17 | It was expected that input data would be transcribed to the magnetic wire by a process which did not involve the computer , and similarly for output . |
| 18 | Specifically , what interpretations of data would be available to us if we relied on ‘ mainstream ’ norms , and how would these differ from internally-based interpretations ? |
| 19 | Unfortunately very comprehensive data would be required as there are many possible flows through HE . |
| 20 | Following an agreement by the Council to meet the marginal cost of additional interviews , the Scottish Office enhanced the sample size for Lothian and agreed that the data would be made available for local use . |
| 21 | Since virtually everyone working for the Group in Britain was paid by computer , the most reliable and immediate source of data would be found in the existing salary and wages software . |
| 22 | As the different factors are viewed as performing different tasks in the production process , one way to present data would be in terms of so-called functional shares , that is the share of income going to land , labour and capital . |
| 23 | In the case of the database project , it is doubtful that the machine-readable data would be of any use whatsoever . |
| 24 | A potential criterion for ordering the data would be to choose that order which maximises the consistency , and the simulated annealing algorithm described earlier could be adapted to do this . |
| 25 | What other data would be useful in determining the change in economic welfare ? |
| 26 | The pilots were instructed simply to switch off their engines upon landing as taxi-ing the aircraft would be impossible . |
| 27 | Wall agreed even though the aircraft would be parked in a much closer dispersal and be running the risk of enemy air attack . |
| 28 | The aircraft would be taxied into position at the base of the tower and connected to two cables , attached by way of mounts at the wing roots . |
| 29 | The only alternative would be to put in an inferior system , which means that the German aircraft would be less capable than those in the other three air forces . |
| 30 | The ministers agreed four key points : ( i ) minimal restrictions would be placed on surveillance flights ; ( ii ) a quota system would be devised to ensure equitable surveillance of all signatory states ; ( iii ) unarmed aircraft would be used , carrying surveillance equipment capable of operating under all circumstances and weather ; and ( iv ) other countries , in particular the European neutral and non-aligned countries , would eventually be invited to participate in the project . |