Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Klerk also ordered the dismantling of the SSC secretariat , whose functions would be handled by a Cabinet committee for security matters . |
| 2 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 3 | Adjudication would be undertaken by a panel of distinguished doctors and psychiatrists and , to the delight of the press , he went on to say that the finals would be screened worldwide . |
| 4 | These would be undertaken by a number of organizations . |
| 5 | Of this , $50 million would be channelled through a World Bank fund . |
| 6 | Some years ago a number of philosophers of science and some scientists had the vision of a unified science in which all the separate disciplines would be integrated within a set of all-embracing , mutually coherent theories . |
| 7 | If they broke the vow a curse would ensue according to which they would be savaged by a bear , split apart by an axe , knifed to death or even choked by food . |
| 8 | In his wish for a healthy city he was becoming more and more aware of rural virtues and leaning towards the sort of suspect organicism which would be developed with a vengeance by Leavis . |
| 9 | Explicit collusion would involve the firms in talking to each other , explicitly agreeing to produce half the monopoly output each , and , quite possibly , agreeing also that deviation by one would be punished by a price war . |
| 10 | In a short , unexpected speech the King announced that the central commission would be chaired by a judge and would have an Interior Ministry representative and representatives chosen by each of the eight political parties represented in the Chamber of Representatives . |
| 11 | Institutions doing mainly advanced work would be funded on a programme basis , while those with only small amounts would be funded in respect of individual courses . |
| 12 | As a result they would accord the lower orders some respect and the arrogance which high status tends to encourage would be tempered with a degree of humility . |
| 13 | Up to 50 per cent of wages would be paid in rubels , which would be exchanged at a rate of one to 10 with the rouble . |
| 14 | On the morning of 22 May , " therefore , 5 Corps divisional commanders had been authorised to use force to enforce the hand-overs of the Cossacks ( and that arrangements with the Russians would be confirmed at a meeting at Wolfsburg on 23 May ) . |
| 15 | The constitution would be confirmed by a referendum within 30 days . |
| 16 | The space of the hall would be defined by an electron cloud : the volume required for one or more electrons to revolve about the nucleus at high speed . |
| 17 | In a letter to the council , Stuart McHardy of the campaign wrote that stones from all over Scotland and other parts of the world would be formed into a cairn on 10 April to mark the first anniversary of the Vigil for a Scottish Parliament on Regent Road . |
| 18 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 19 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 20 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 21 | The bank 's permanent directorate , hitherto comprising five members ( with 10 the maximum ) , would be expanded to a maximum of eight to include east German representation . |
| 22 | When they arrived , they would be led into a sitting room where a microphone had been set up in front of each chair , with a tape recorder in the middle of the floor . |
| 23 | Every two years or so , production staff would be faced with a choice : shut down the plant for two weeks to avoid an explosion or let the contraption blow up and restart full production on the following day . |
| 24 | She would be faced with a choice . |
| 25 | Given that this sum represents more than half the council 's average annual spending , the poll tax payers would be faced with a nightmare . |
| 26 | In acknowledgement of the urgent need for reform in this area , de Klerk proposed initially that henceforth : ( i ) the death penalty would be limited as an option of sentence to extreme cases , and the area of judicial discretion in the imposition of sentence would be broadened ( currently the death sentence was mandatory for certain crimes ) ; ( ii ) all those sentenced to death would be granted automatic right of appeal — up till now there had been no appeal against this sentence ; ( iii ) no further executions would be carried out until Parliament had decided on the proposals . |
| 27 | These cuts would be offset by a variety of direct payments to farmers . |
| 28 | These expenses would be offset by a reduction in unit labour costs . |
| 29 | The civil rights of the citizen would be secured by a Bill of Rights based on the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 30 | The loan would be secured by a mortgage on the borrower 's property . |