Example sentences of "[noun] would [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits of this action would be seen in the group 's 1993–4 figures , said Haskins . |
| 2 | Mr Irons said yesterday that the petition raising the action would be lodged with the Court of Session by the end of next week . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the scope for truly radical action would be undermined through the unconscious acceptance of an ideology which limits the range of alternatives that political leaders might conceive of , or sustain popular support for . |
| 4 | ‘ What Maradona said is the most stupid declaration of the Eighties by a football player , ’ said the Fifa spokesman Guido Tognoni , who added that no disciplinary action would be taken against the player . |
| 5 | The editor-in-chief of Izvestia , the most respected national daily newspaper , also said legal action would be taken against the Speaker , for seeking to impose restrictions on the newspaper and employing ‘ Bolshevik psychology ’ to gag the press . |
| 6 | Opposition leaders , however , expressed concern at the continuing military disruption of the transition period , and questioned whether effective action would be taken against the military . |
| 7 | Peter Lilley told the brewers that no action would be taken in the particular instance where a pub had not yet been freed because independent arbitration of rents was still taking place . |
| 8 | It was planned from the beginning that follow-up action would be taken by the participants wherever possible , so in the summer of 1980 Highlander hosted a workshop on land reform to which study participants and others from the region were invited . |
| 9 | Mr Ridley said the action would be pursued with the utmost vigour . |
| 10 | General guidelines would be given by the European Council ; the Council of Ministers would take such decisions unanimously but define matters where a qualified majority could be used . |
| 11 | Other councillors , however hoped the guidelines would be regarded as the norm . |
| 12 | The hill peoples would be associated with the constitutional process . |
| 13 | This brigade would be absorbed by the new force . |
| 14 | Word went out to the people of the surrounding area that a conventicle would be held on the muir early on the Sunday morning . |
| 15 | With the Tories certain to vote against such higher taxes , Labour would be defeated on the issue unless it gained power with an overall majority . |
| 16 | Either , therefore , Labour would govern with the support of the Liberals which would indeed make the Liberals the arbiters of government ; or Labour would be defeated in the House , and seek a dissolution which would be denied to them . |
| 17 | These calculators would be sold under the name of Noxid . |
| 18 | It was unclear what kind of coalition would be attempted by the CDU leader Erwin Teufel ( who took over from Lothar Späth in January 1991 following allegations of corruption in the allocation of business contracts — see p. 37966 ) . |
| 19 | On the basis of certain assumptions about the chemical heterogeneity of the mantle and a postulated marked increase in viscosity with depth , it has been argued that convection would be confined to the asthenosphere , that is to a maximum depth of about 300 km ( Fig. 2.1 7(A) ) . |
| 20 | First of all nursery schools would be dealing with the County Council on a different basis from the vast of , of the schools population and that will give rise to anomalies and complications which would be undesirous and secondly there might be problems particularly if they are considering expanding nursery provision between nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools . |
| 21 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 22 | For a few days there was a period of uncertainty , as Huw waited to see if the Brotherhood were planning another attack upon him — and the Inner Circle of the Guild waited to see if any steps would be taken by the Dockers ' Union , or by the police , in defence of the young man . |
| 23 | Whether a requirement to disclose an ensuing report prepared for the defendant would be upheld by the court as a valid condition for granting an examination in the first place is not clear from McGinley v Burke [ 1973 ] 1 WLR 990 . |
| 24 | A point should be certified only where the outcome of the appeal depends upon it — the prosecution to appeal where a defendant would be acquitted on the certified point alone if the Court of Appeal 's judgment were to stand ; the defendant to appeal where a reversal by the House of Lords of the Court of Appeal 's decision on the certified point would be his only means of acquittal . |
| 25 | Most of that land had been allocated to those with forest grazing rights , whose method of running stock would be affected by the enclosures . |
| 26 | We also agreed that erm performance assessment reports in the future would be provided by the chair and finance after considering the recommendations of the chairman of the recreation ground committee and the clerk . |
| 27 | The jury must be satisfied that a significant proportion of the likely readership would be guided along the path of corruption : " Clearly s2 can not mean all persons ; nor can it mean any one person , for there are individuals who may be corrupted by almost anything . |
| 28 | If he surpassed himself with a full-scale mock-up of the ceiling for the Salla Romana with a snake-pit of interwoven flowers and exuberant garlands , he could be sure that a cursory glance by Ceauşescu would be followed by the demand , ‘ More flowers , more gold leaf . ’ |
| 29 | Samples of both victims ' blood would be taken from the bodies at the post-mortem , but it would be three days at least before he could expect to get the result of the analysis . |
| 30 | The outcome of the vote would be reflected in the composition of the upper house of parliament , the Eerste Kamer , whose 75 members were elected by the provincial legislatures . |