Example sentences of "would be [adj] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Roger Pedder says : ‘ While it may be hoped that the position will improve , members of the 1990/91 and 1991/92 policy years would be prudent to make provision for supplementary calls of 7% and 6% of the contributions for these years . ’ |
| 2 | A deputy of Sproull 's reputation , officiating in the regality court , would be certain to make enemies for the politician who appointed him , and Gorthie strongly advised the duke to get rid of the bailie-depute immediately . |
| 3 | It would be nice to earn £15,000 for playing sport , but it 's not an issue with me . |
| 4 | Penny Duce of the Poetry Library , who recently visited Lending Services said that the Library would be pleased to accept requests for books on BL forms , but that she did not expect to be borrowing material for SPL itself . |
| 5 | Moreover the Livermore study concluded that it would be easy to adapt designs for tomorrow 's reactors so they could burn MOX exclusively — rather than a mixture , one-third MOX and two-thirds uranium , as is the practice today . |
| 6 | No-one ever thought it would be easy to achieve equality for lesbians and gays . |
| 7 | This argument is a weak one : there is no clear evidence that such phonetic differences exist , and even if there were such evidence , it would be easy to produce explanations for the differences that did not depend on phonemic analyses ( e.g. the position of the word boundary in ‘ watch apes ’ , ‘ what shapes ’ ) . |
| 8 | They argue , sensibly , that for this reason it would be ridiculous to find alternatives for the syllable ‘ man ’ in these words . |
| 9 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 10 | He wanted to know whether they would be prepared to take payment for what they produced after everyone else had taken a cut . |
| 11 | Jacques 's visits to the LEAs and branches in the rural eastern counties confirmed his belief that without the continuing presence of high quality resident tutor-organisers in rural areas , few people would be prepared to accept responsibility for the organisation and maintenance of self-directing adult student groups in villages . |
| 12 | It was of course appreciated that the public at large was in favour of retaining the death penalty and that its abolition would be likely to lose votes for the Labour Party . |
| 13 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 14 | take seriously the possibility of institutional dominance posed by the existence of their own and other welfare organisations … they would be concerned to consider options for change which challenge the vested interest , or the market position of their organisation itself — for instance by acting as subordinate partner to other agencies in a cooperative venture . |
| 15 | And it would be outrageous to impute motives for such stereotyping . |
| 16 | While the support documentation required for a comprehensive paper based protocol would limit its use , a computer based system would be able to generate prompts for managing infrequent clinical scenarios in a user friendly way . |
| 17 | the extent to which the teams would be able to preserve space for development work rather than be drawn into a crisis oriented casework load ; |
| 18 | ‘ If anybody thought not to attend they would be unlikely to remain ministers for long , ’ he said after hurriedly consulting Mr Major . |
| 19 | The couple would like to care for Leah at home fulltime , but have been told they would be unlikely to receive funding for a night nurse to look after her while they slept . |
| 20 | But the nomadic lifestyle of the travellers means that even if they were recognised by law , it would be difficult to provide sites for them ; |
| 21 | The Soviet government indicated that Moscow would be willing to provide troops for a U N peace keeping force in the Gulf , but urged Washington not to take unilateral action . |
| 22 | At the second of these meetings Attlee stressed that the strategic arguments about the Middle East were not valid because no country would be willing to grant bases for military action , and all Britain would achieve would be to pose a needless and pointless threat to the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | For example , if the current rate of interest were 20 per cent , no one would be willing to pay £100 for a bond that only yielded £10 per year . |
| 24 | ( paras.2.6 , 4.2 ) I belong to the 40% who would be willing to pay £10 for a national permit , but I appreciate the problems of administration and enforcement , which probably means that Option A is the more practical alternative . |