Example sentences of "that [art] [noun] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that the decision would have been more convincing had the court focused directly upon the principles of proportionality and legal certainty : the withdrawal of the licence was a disproportionate method of achieving the council 's aims , coupled with the idea that there should be no punishment without breach of an established law . |
| 2 | There are suggestions in the judgment that the decision would have been otherwise had the buyer been a property speculator . |
| 3 | The judge told him that the sentence would have been longer if his victim had been permanently scarred . |
| 4 | He was , in fact , a superb achiever and should have been recognized as such , and loaded with so much extra work and responsibilities that the pheasants would have been left in peace . |
| 5 | Although the LDP 's overall majority in the House of Representatives ensured that the proposal would have been approved by the lower chamber , the party 's minority position in the House of Counsellors ( where it controlled 113 of the 252 seats ) made approval in the upper house unlikely . |
| 6 | Staff at a prison where six men escaped say that the break-out would have been prevented by closed-circuit video cameras . |
| 7 | Ruddock 's sickly grin on rising , intended to signal that he was okay , was in fact unwitting facial semaphore that the fight would have been over but for the rescuing bell . |
| 8 | A luxurious yacht like that must have carried an engineer — we can find that out easily enough — and it 's a fair guess that the engines would have been maintained in an immaculate condition . |
| 9 | Quinn gave him the car , a Volvo saloon , and its registration number ; both men surmised , rightly , that the plates would have been changed for that meeting , then changed back again . |
| 10 | Now is the viscoelastic process followed the pattern of chemical rate processes and was describable by an Arrhenius relation for the relaxation time , namely then we shall show that the plot would have been linear . |
| 11 | Course we do … that 's just the sort of thing that the scum would think is n't it . |
| 12 | There is a strong probability , had such evidence been given , that the government would have been gravely embarrassed . |
| 13 | NORMAN Lamont delivered a double whammy yesterday that the Government would have been proud to hang round the necks of its opponents . |
| 14 | David calmly pointed out that the scheme would have been pointless if the ‘ enemy ’ had known of our intentions . |
| 15 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 16 | This suggests that the boundaries of acceptable behaviour lie beyond mere unreasonableness , that the directors would have been liable only if on no tenable view of the facts could their actions have benefited the company : in other words , if they had behaved in a way that was perverse . |
| 17 | Thus , in Overend & Gurney Lord Hatherley stated that the directors would have been liable if there had been any ‘ undue neglect of any circumstance or transaction which ought to have been inquired into ’ . |
| 18 | Lord Denning stated that the position would have been different if the stairs leading to the basement had given way . |
| 19 | Britain 's position was further weakened early in 1963 , when the French president , de Gaulle , vetoed the first British attempt to join the EEC , though George Ball later concluded that the veto would have been delivered sooner or later with or without Nassau . |
| 20 | A business mistake is made , and it is assumed that the mistake would have been avoided if somebody at a higher position in the organization had known about it , or had intervened . |
| 21 | I do not think that the conch would have been thought of or used , at least to start , but the girls would have probably got together into one large group as the boys did , although with sub-divisions of especial friends . |
| 22 | Notice to produce the document must have been given in order to render oral evidence of it admissible ; it must be shown that the document existed , is or was in the possession of the other side , and that the original would have been admissible and relevant . |
| 23 | It is certain that the Leapors would have been aware of the changes going on around them , especially since Philip Leapor would have been hired for landscaping projects . |
| 24 | Had the reasonable foreseeability test been used in Polemis , it is likely that the defendants would have been not liable . |
| 25 | Had it been , Bingham says , ‘ it seems likely that all concerned would have embarked on a group restructuring programme with a much fuller investigation and understanding of the malpractice which had existed in the past and of the level of support required , or that the bank would have been closed or would have collapsed there and then ’ . |
| 26 | If the probe moves along a radius with , then For simplicity it can be imagined that the probe would have been be at rest if it had started at an infinite distance from the hole ; then the kinetic energy parameter T vanishes and the equation reduces further to where , as usual , . |
| 27 | Lord Denning said that the result would have been otherwise if the plaintiff had been e.g. hit in the eye by a shot from a negligent sportsman . |
| 28 | Others extended the land all the way across the Atlantic to explain how some species came to be resident in both North America and Europe , openly appealing to the legend of Atlantis to support this hypothesis , despite the fact that the land-bridge would have been submerged long before the human race appeared . |
| 29 | Is the client entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that the contractor would have been late anyway ? |
| 30 | He shouted to his riders , at least those near enough to hear , to try not to ride down any mounted men in their way , as those would likely be their own folk , it being improbable that the enemy would have been able to catch any of the fleeing horses . |