Example sentences of "would be [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would be missing would be Keeton as a powerful and innovative planner and organiser . |
| 2 | But Mr. Lester raises a more fundamental argument , with which I agree , that the effect of this court declaring the law in such a way as to enable the local authority to sue in libel , would be interference by a judicial authority with the right of freedom of expression of the press . |
| 3 | If the net asset value of the trust were £50m and there were 5 million units in existence , then the net asset value of one unit would be £10 and the largest permissible offer price would be £10.75 with a possible bid price of £9.25 , giving a 15 per cent spread . |
| 4 | But then coaches would be faces with an interesting dilemma . |
| 5 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 6 | Gorbachev stated that the Russian decree was illegal , but stressed that delimiting the powers and property of the centre and republics would be part of a new union treaty . |
| 7 | Having external angles equal to internal opposites follows from being a figure of three lines , but is no more a part of that idea than being yellow or malleable would be part of a detailed idea of the corpuscular constitution of gold . |
| 8 | Reports from earlier in the month said that the electrified fence would be part of an early warning system which would include mines , automatic machine guns and searchlights . |
| 9 | They would be signs of an unprofessional subjectivism and impressionism ; in recent radical discourse they indicate an undesirable mystification . |
| 10 | Both of these would be products of a continued modernization process based on a principle of cultural differentiation . |
| 11 | One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 12 | The RSDLP should be reorganized as a federal party , with the Bund being recognized as the sole representative of Jewish workers and the party programme promising ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ ( that is , all Jewish workers , regardless of where they lived in the empire , would be members of a national Jewish association , responsible for all Jewish educational and cultural affairs ) . |
| 13 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 14 | Pay would almost certainly rise and there would be redundancies on a significant and unacceptable scale . |
| 15 | More difficult would be patients with a deep seated psychological problem which would require more than three months ' treatment . |
| 16 | Who would ever have believed that Lucille , Vicomtesse de Seleglise and widow of Colonel Xavier Castineau , would be mother to a half-English bastard ? |
| 17 | Top whack would be £1,400 for a 14-foot ficus . |
| 18 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |
| 19 | He had hoped there would be time for a quick cup of tea but it was n't to be . |
| 20 | She calculated that there would be time for a quick dip before afternoon tea , which Juliette normally served at a quarter to four . |
| 21 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 22 | We were hoping that there would be room in a future match-day programme to advertise the following information . |