Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focus would move from the determination of who is legally right and from consideration of the reasonableness of the employer 's action in the circumstances of the individual dismissal to the location of the dispute firmly in the realms of industrial relations , rather than employment law , where the search would be for a workable and acceptable solution which took account of the wider context . |
| 2 | She knew that her uncle 's death would radically change her position but did she , as she said , believe that the change would be for the worse ? |
| 3 | A rogue telephoned expressing an interest in buying the articles and the plaintiff provisionally agreed with him that the payment would be by a building society cheque in the plaintiff 's favour . |
| 4 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 5 | The Provisional IRA named the Andersonstown Co-Operative and two private building construction firms and it was agreed that the work would be in the Provisional-controlled Maynard Estate . |
| 6 | Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis . |
| 7 | He had n't expected either that the Mess would be in a château , that the furniture would be impressively of its period — no worn armchairs or bits of junk in a state of collapse from subalterns ' games , as so often to be found in the messes of his experience , or indeed that his welcome would be so unaffectedly cordial . |
| 8 | There were doubts , however , that the Soviet would be on board for the second leg . |
| 9 | It is intended that the orchestra would be in place in time for the Edinburgh Festival in autumn . |
| 10 | Consider in this light the following example : It is unlikely that Shakespeare or the majority of writers in construction of their work imagined the twentieth-century reader or considered the possibility that the reader would be of another race or colour than his own ( the exception to this assumption can be found in later twentieth-century writers ) . |
| 11 | City analysts have put a price tag of as much as £60m on Hargreaves and some potential bidders , including the Irish group CRH , have intimated that the business would be worth more to an existing player in the market than a newcomer . |
| 12 | There is little doubt that the effect would be to drastically reduce the number of generic substitutes supplied by pharmacists . |
| 13 | ‘ Am I to understand , Forest , that a new constable has been appointed ? ’ he asked , hoping against hope that the answer would be in the negative — that Brackenbury 's absence was only temporary . |
| 14 | was quite ready and anxious to permit their drawings for these cars to be used in order to ensure that the design would be at least up to their standard and no doubt both Hurst , Nelson and Brush held sets of copies of these drawings . |
| 15 | In the past New Zealand have insisted that the Cup would be at stake only over a Test series , or in a one-off Test . |
| 16 | Du Pont in the USA had invented nylon in the late 1930s and it was clear that the material would be of tremendous use to countries at war . |
| 17 | But she knew Ellen would write and that the letter would be in the nature of both a declaration and a justification . |
| 18 | Robert informed her ( he did not ask ) that the wedding would be in Flaxthorpe . |
| 19 | We agreed that the wedding would be in ten days ’ time . |
| 20 | We reckoned , however , that the privacy would be worth the extravagance . |
| 21 | Continued economic expansion and the widespread belief that Keynesian economic techniques provided governments with an effective tool for managing the economy had engendered the belief that the future would be like the present , but better , that economic growth would simply continue into the indefinite future , bringing more and greater benefits to all segments of society . |
| 22 | The rest of the wickets slipped away , 209 all out gave England a win by 19 runs and , as Pakistan had already beaten Australia , ensured that the final would be between them and England . |
| 23 | ‘ It would be better to ask young people to show what they could do against explicit criteria so that the challenge would be between the person and the task , not between individuals , with one person 's success being another 's failure , ’ the report says . |
| 24 | He had known that a policeman would be in attendance . |
| 25 | In response to a further telephone call from the police station at 1.17 a.m. the ambulance services said that an ambulance would be at the scene in five to seven minutes . |
| 26 | In fact the uncertainty is so wide that is doubtful if the forecast would be of much value . |
| 27 | On being informed of this , King Louis of France instantly had Winstanley released , declaring , ‘ We are at War with England , not with humanity ’ , and the lighthouse would be of benefit to all nations . |
| 28 | If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied . |
| 29 | Progress seemed to have halted ; two more furtive searches of Charlie 's office had turned up nothing other than his hidden Scotch bottle but then , every evening of the day after a job , she 'd see him go in there empty-handed and the book would be on his desk when he summoned her . |
| 30 | Without that the royal authority could not be exercised , and the realm would be like a ship lacking a rudder . |