Example sentences of "[noun] would [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , on Feb. 7 , up to 70,000 people had protested in Garankuwa , in eastern Bophuthatswana , demanding that their South African citizenship be restored , but Mangope had reaffirmed on Feb. 18 that the homeland would never be reincorporated into South Africa . |
| 2 | Many natural foods we have happily consumed for centuries would never be allowed to be sold in the shops today if they were subject to the same tests as modern drugs and edible substances . |
| 3 | The factions agreed on a compromise under which the Khmer Rouge delegation would initially be based in the SNC 's compound in Phnom Penh , a former government guest house which also served as quarters for some UN officials . |
| 4 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 5 | However , if the defendant were prosecuted and the defence conceded lack of consent , the defendant would certainly be acquitted in these circumstances even if the law required his belief in consent to be both honest and reasonable . |
| 6 | Although the domain-specific dictionary outperforms the general dictionary on average , there are good reasons why the general dictionary would still be preferred in the majority of situations . |
| 7 | Their future would best be secured by implementing the repeat dispensing system , recommended in a recent Department of Health report , and developing a contract that pays for services other than dispensing — for example , health promotion — where the pharmacist can offer opportunistic advice without the need for identification or referral . |
| 8 | He predicted that the percentage of foreign nationals in Kuwait would eventually be reduced to less than half the population . |
| 9 | Presumably , they would set out on one course of action , receive a consultants ' report which would blow them off their course , the journalists would then be summoned to Luigi 's restaurant and policy would once again be changed . |
| 10 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 11 | Initially , the Government accepted that the 5 per cent abatement would also be lifted from other short-term benefits when these became taxable . |
| 12 | David would always be seen in public , would always have to do interviews , do a video or go into a recording studio — so I think the whole time was taken up by feeling involved in the whole Ziggy period or Ziggy way of thinking . |
| 13 | The initially modest programme would then be supported by a variety of group other Congressmen and pressure groups — and there would be pressures for expansion of the programme : a ‘ spiral effect ’ . |
| 14 | A report on Lao National Radio on March 6 stated that Khamtay and Solomon had concluded that Lao-US relations had progressed to the point that ties would soon be elevated to ambassadorial level . |
| 15 | A good defence lawyer would now be armed with all the mitigating circumstances of your life : mental records , character witnesses , … any reason why your life should be spared . |
| 16 | Prices for re-tiling the roof would also be sought in due course . |
| 17 | … then there will be the same intolerance towards outsiders as in the age of the Wars of Religion ; and if differences between scientific opinions could ever attain a similar significance for groups , the same result would again be repeated with this new motivation . |
| 18 | Such written indication would typically be contained in a customer agreement ( see below ) . |
| 19 | The main concourse with its waiting-rooms , restaurants , and shops would only be penetrated by Africans in their capacities as porters or cleaners . |
| 20 | If this advice had been taken , we would now have a Labour government with Liberal Democrat support , and the two parties would jointly be working on reforms to the voting system to ensure that it more accurately represents the will of the people . |
| 21 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 22 | If a three-year course could be justified the supporting subjects would probably be covered in the first year but care would have to be taken not to put too great an emphasis on the technology . |
| 23 | The idea of literary sensibility would probably be dismissed by the culturalists of the Left as a piece of mystification , and certainly few of them have shown signs of possessing it , on either side of the Atlantic . |
| 24 | It would probably be an area acceptable to those contemplating setting up home anew on retirement , and their previous homes would then be freed to each new generation of wealth-producers . |
| 25 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 26 | Each boat would then be licensed by horsepower for a set number of days at sea based on a three-year track record . |
| 27 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |
| 28 | The extra revenue would then be spent on public transport . |
| 29 | The loss would then be carried by the person responsible for the defect . |
| 30 | Attention to the proper development of the grammar schools required some surprising changes : the payment of pupils to defeat the rival attractions of early employment , extra investment for able pupils in primary schools , the conversion of Public Schools into boarding grammar schools , more efficient testing and selecting , and ( since some talent would still be missed at the age of eleven , or developed later ) continuous and lifelong selection . |