Example sentences of "[noun] would be [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Congressional reformers had hoped that , by modifying the seniority system , strengthening the party caucuses and other changes , parties would be made more viable , but their efforts were offset by other developments , most notably in the realm of campaigning . |
| 2 | The reply from the minister to the vacancy committee would be considered very outspoken at that time . |
| 3 | In Europe international tensions would be kept artificially alive in order to justify massive expenditure on armaments and the construction of centralized bureaucracies and armies capable of suppressing any democratic movement attempting to challenge the power and wealth of the bankers and their hangers on . |
| 4 | However , if economic evaluation were used more frequently in choosing between treatment technologies such ‘ trade-offs ’ between cost and quality would be made more explicit . |
| 5 | Closed-shop arrangements would be made more difficult and secondary picketing outlawed , to avoid the kind of violence that had disfigured the Grunwick dispute . |
| 6 | While this was always true , it was unlikely that committee members would be held personally liable while the government was underwriting the costs . |
| 7 | However , such boards are difficult to turn and in large waves can nosedive , so for a more manoeuvrable design the rocker line would be made more curved . |
| 8 | Powder and shot would not last another ten days of cannon-fire exchange , nor anything like it ; and by then food would be exhausted however drastic the rationing . |
| 9 | Prime Minister Theodor Stoloyan announced on Nov. 6 that the Romanian currency would be made internally convertible , thus ending the two-tier system of exchange rates . |
| 10 | Of course , if this could be established , English would be rendered relatively invulnerable to attacks of the kind mounted , for example , by Snow and Collie . |
| 11 | But erm I I imagine their rate of interest would be kept fairly low . |