Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He argued that enterprise zones should be established in which detailed planning controls would cease to exist , certain legal obligations on employers such as employment protection legislation would no longer apply , various taxes would not be levied and the overall management of zones would be undertaken not by local authorities but by some other agency .
2 An over-ambitious social physics , albeit statistically sophisticated , would give an oddly flat theory of social relationships precisely because unique , yet meaningful , patterns would be smoothed out under general statistical laws .
3 And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court .
4 About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo .
5 Such an effect was hard to reconcile with classical microeconomic theory , which suggests that if agents act optimally then decisions about real variables such as output would be influenced only by other real variables , and not by nominal variables .
6 The herring would be canned instead of pickled .
7 Its key provisions were that ( i ) foreign , defence and monetary policy would remain the responsibility of the federation ; ( ii ) the two republics would be represented equally in federal bodies ; ( iii ) each republic would have the right to sign international treaties in areas of regional concern ( to be defined in a future constitution ) ; and ( iv ) each republic would have the right to leave the federation after a referendum .
8 There 's also a danger , as Patrick Earle 's pointed out , though it would be applied differently between different districts erm given erm that erm erm relative issues on unem unemployment and the economy will er differ between between districts .
9 The primary health care team contracted to follow set procedures for making referrals ( referrers would inform patients , all referrals would include a clear statement of urgency and would be made in writing — even ones made by telephone would be followed up by written requests ) .
10 So , in addition to the high increases in taxation that the Labour party would impose if it was ever given a chance , the community charge payer , or the council tax payer , would be ripped apart by high-spending Labour authorities , because there would be no capping .
11 The Empire which would be bound together by reciprocal preferences , freely accorded , and which would thence ascend , perchance , to the unity of common counsels and common institutions , was an Empire of independent ‘ kith and kin ’ — ‘ the conception of the people of these islands as a great family bound by indissoluble ties to kindred families in other parts of the world ’ ( Milner ) .
12 The Army was also promised that a large proportion of the financial savings , which flowed from ending of National Service , would be ploughed back into major re-equipment and barrack rebuilding programmes to make regular service more attractive .
13 It would be made up of local councillors ( increasingly , the only people in the party with experience of ruling ) , MPs , MEPs and trade unionists .
14 Bets would be made out on odd scraps of paper with all the formula of doubles , ups and downs , trebles , box ups , each way bets , in fact any means of winning a few shillings and saving their stake money that could be found .
15 Mr Colin Walker , a senior manager at Autotype International , said he would be reporting back on possible business links after the summer visit .
16 There was a danger that the anti-inflation tendencies of the Bundesbank would be watered down by other European countries where control of prices was less of a priority .
17 There was a danger that the anti-inflation tendencies of the Bundesbank would be watered down by other European countries where control of prices was less of a priority .
18 She hardly ever read it herself now , preferring Alexandra to read it to her , but some mornings , when she felt stronger , she would be propped up on extra pillows and given the paper and her glass .
19 Pensioners and the disabled would be singled out for special treatment , whether they paid rates or not .
20 Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’
21 Only the House of Lords , acting as the Supreme Court of Appeal , has the right to depart from its own previous decisions ; and this right would be exercised only in unusual and exceptional circumstances .
22 Applying those considerations to the present case , their Lordships are of the view that since the plaintiff was well aware that the defendants would be acting also for other vendors of comparable properties and in so doing would receive confidential information from those other vendors , the agency contract between the plaintiff and the defendants can not have included either ( a ) a term requiring the defendants to disclose such confidential information to the plaintiff or ( b ) a term precluding the defendants acting for rival vendors or ( c ) a term precluding the defendants from seeking to earn commission on the sale of the property of a rival vendor .
23 Chapters would be arranged broadly by environmental media .
24 Sometimes activities would be arranged jointly with other branches , so that there would be new occasions for gossip and flirting .
25 There case would be written up in medical journals ‘ because we have eliminated every other possible cause . ’
26 We would be marching along in perfect time , waiting for the cue to start a new verse , when suddenly Da Silva , or Gionesca the Italian , who were both incapable of marching correctly , would pipe up by themselves .
27 As a result in 1947 an agreement was signed with the Americans , known as the UK-USA Treaty , whereby the world would be split up into different areas of operation and GCHQ and its American counterpart the National Security Agency ( NSA ) , would share out the intelligence work on the most economical basis .
28 Then came the announcement that a further set of specimen questions would be sent out to primary schools in September .
29 ‘ Places like Ayr , Largs and Helensburgh which currently have trains until late at night and weekends would be cut down to peak-hour commuter services because they are the only ones that make money .
30 Where it was found that middle peasants had been encroached upon , where it was found that middle peasants had been dispossessed erm that position would be rectified and that would be given back to middle peasants .
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