Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was agreed to tighten the Protocol so that CFC production and consumption would be phased out by the year 2000 , and that halon and ‘ other ozone depleting substances ’ should be phased out as soon as feasible . |
| 32 | Before the start of the conference , the UK Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , announced that industrial dumping would be phased out in the UK by 1992 , except in the case of ICI and Sterling Organics ( responsible for 78 per cent of all industrial waste dumped in the North Sea ) which would be licensed to dump until 1993 . |
| 33 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 34 | The remote would be blasted out of the sky in less than a fiftieth of a second . ’ |
| 35 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 36 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 37 | The Mountie , unperturbed , said he would be proceeding vigorously with the enquiries into both Angelica 's and Ricky 's deaths and perhaps he would have news for everyone in Winnipeg . |
| 38 | In some instances constraints would be imposed indirectly through the imposition of a duty to provide reasons ; in other cases the courts hinted at the limits they would set , such as if the decision was perverse or made in bad faith . |
| 39 | How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 40 | Some of the heavier elements produced near the end of the star 's life would be flung back into the gas in the galaxy , and would provide some of the raw material for the next generation of stars . |
| 41 | It stated that matters of defence , foreign policy , energy , communications , transport and the union budget would be decided jointly between the centre and the republics but in all other matters republican laws would have priority over union laws . |
| 42 | If , on the other hand , Lord Kilbrandon 's suggestion of a single offence of unlawful homicide were adopted , the crucial questions of culpability would be decided solely at the sentencing stage by the judge . |
| 43 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 44 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 45 | She let them pass , came to Hampstead tube station and thought what an adventure it would be to go home in a train . |
| 46 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 47 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 48 | John Carter , on the other hand , concluded that ‘ as generally understood , the term private press would be applied only to a shop where the work was hand-set and hand-printed ’ . |
| 49 | He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association . |
| 50 | If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house . |
| 51 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 52 | On the basis that ‘ the bomber will always get through ’ officials within Whitehall made alarmist predictions that the declaration of war with Germany would be followed immediately by the devastation of cities , epidemics , disruption of food supplies , panic among the civilian population , the breakdown of essential services , and so on . |
| 53 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 54 | Or maybe she was happy at the fact that , in a few minutes , after a couple of minutes ' contact with Clara Beeding 's right mitt , she would be skipping around with the best of them . |
| 55 | That would be jumping out of the frying-pan into a raging inferno . |
| 56 | If we accepted this entirely arbitrary target , the review would be seen merely as a cost-cutting exercise and not about the reform of social security . |
| 57 | We did not we think I think we thought it would be seen merely as a gesture . |
| 58 | Up to 21,000 reservists would be called up in a countrywide security crackdown , he said . |
| 59 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 60 | After the bypass completion the parish would be looking forward to the de-trunking of the A3 which would become a B road . |