Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 2 | Alternatively , major capital projects would be undertaken by private sector contractors who would finance and build the assets in question , operate them for a specified period in return for an agreed fee and then transfer them to the commissioning authority . |
| 3 | BSL would be enhanced by this recognition and use . |
| 4 | Although Sir Cyril had spoken in January 1988 about ‘ hundreds ’ of CTCs , these would be funded by local education authorities . |
| 5 | This envisaged 300 first-past-the-post seats plus 175 that would be filled by proportional representation . |
| 6 | Hurd confirmed to the House that 18 of the 60 Hong Kong Legco seats would be filled by direct election in 1991 . |
| 7 | If the treaty bears the imprint of our views , how can the Prime Minister explain the acceptance of article 104B , under which present and future Governments of this country would be limited by European authority to a borrowing requirement of no more than 3 per cent . |
| 8 | Some of Britain 's rarest landscapes — such as the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland , with their unique peat bogs — would be destroyed by large-scale planting , together with their existing animal and plant life , say the conservationists . |
| 9 | Without that leverage , the RPF could either take a vow of self-imposed isolation ( in the hope that this would be rewarded by electoral victory in 1956 ) or risk its anti-system character by participating in parliamentary politics and even holding a share of power in coalition governments . |
| 10 | [ At a meeting of EC immigration ministers on June 13-14 Denmark announced that it had signed the convention , which was designed to deal with difficulties resulting from asylum seekers moving from one EC country to another and to give asylum seekers a guarantee that their application would be examined by one member country . |
| 11 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |
| 12 | Virgin Group is expected to abandon its plan to run a train service in competition with British Rail ; the charges that would be imposed by British Rail would prevent the scheme from being commercially viable . |
| 13 | Rumours circulating among some health authority staff that the chief executives of Darlington and South-West Durham would be replaced by one officer brought in from another area were hotly denied at regional level . |
| 14 | By 19 August , the Big Five had reluctantly agreed to economies of 79 million , of which nearly 50 million was to be met by cuts in unemployment benefits ; the remainder of the budget would be balanced by additional taxation . |
| 15 | The amounts involved are often huge , well above any amount that would be covered by professional indemnity insurance . |
| 16 | The intention behind the introduction of the Green Form scheme was to extend the range of services offered by solicitors which would be covered by legal aid . |
| 17 | Thus both management and employees would be covered by some sort of bonus scheme , maybe related to different indicators of performance . |
| 18 | Only four authorities categorically stated that no course or programme would be attended by any member of staff during the year , although many respondents in this group mentioned very low numbers : |
| 19 | The seemingly extensive ambitions of Tsar Nicholas I in the Near East alarmed British statesmen who feared that a collapse of the large and decaying Ottoman Empire would be followed by Russian expansion into the areas formerly controlled by the Sultan . |
| 20 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
| 21 | The policy itself would largely make redundant the politics of selection versus comprehensive education ; most of those staying in full-time education in school would be motivated by academic success . |
| 22 | For buyers , that rarity would be assured by total production of only 20,000 compared with 2 million for the model on which it is based . |
| 23 | London & Manchester , the life insurance group , yesterday announced a 15 per cent increase in its interim dividend to 3.795p and warned that its profits would be hit by reduced turnover margins on its mortgage lending and estate agency business . |
| 24 | I ca n't make up my mind whether he is the kind of guy that would be tempted by that sort of dead end job or not . |
| 25 | They dispute the economic argument , saying the economy would be strengthened by improving energy efficiency . |
| 26 | Indeed de Gaulle would not have been in the least surprised had he known of Kennedy 's assurance to Macmillan in April 1961 that Anglo-American relations would be strengthened by British entry . |
| 27 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 28 | It was accepted quite early on that a seller would be bound by any description by which he had sold specific goods ( Shepherd v Kain ( 1822 ) 5 B&A 240 ) . |
| 29 | Jones believes that ‘ it was also agreed by all that no public disclosure of the research would be made by either group prior to the simultaneous submission of the papers ’ : Pons , by contrast , asserts that there was no agreement not to publicise . |
| 30 | Repayments , according to officials , would be made by direct debit through the student 's personal account with a bank or building society . |