Example sentences of "[noun] would be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore the raw materials of such labour would be ideas and not material objects or practical action . |
| 2 | These show some decrease in surface waters but not as severe as the bio- limiting substances calcium , barium carbon would be examples of bio-intermediate substances . |
| 3 | Put all the world 's land animals on a pair of scales and 10% of the weight would be ants . |
| 4 | Among the groups of people who would become British Overseas citizens as soon as the law comes into force would be citizens of the UK and colonies who are living in present and former colonies and do not have British-born ancestors . |
| 5 | The 1930 Act gave the Education Minister power to nominate up to a quarter of the membership of Education Committees in Northern Ireland ( it being understood that the nominees would be clergymen ) ; regulated the membership of School Management Committees ; and required local education authorities to provide Bible instruction in any school if the parents of ten or more children demanded it . |
| 6 | Examples of measures to support parents would be increases and improvements in childcare , for pre-school children and those of school age ; to make parental leave available to parents of both sexes ; to recognize childcare as a legitimate work expense for tax and benefit purposes ; and to encourage the participation of fathers in child-rearing . |
| 7 | A folly would be an inspiration , dream would be visions , propaganda would be perfect sense . |
| 8 | Who'd 've thought little Pete and Ellie would be turn-coats . |
| 9 | All Nu could secure was agreement that the ‘ Interim Government ’ of Burma would be called the ‘ provisional Government ’ and the Members of the Executive Council would be Ministers , and their chief recognised as Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Buying a taxi-licence in New York or buying a seat on the stock exchange in many countries would be examples of this type of investment . |
| 11 | Some examples of facets for the subject of office management would be kinds of office , services and procedures , accommodation , equipment and supplies , personnel , organization , and control and finance . |
| 12 | IT MIGHT be fair to assume that the people who made the posters for both Labour and the Conservatives would be experts on the way the campaign has been run . |
| 13 | Above the seats would be photographs of strange mysterious places ; Kenilworth , Llandrindod Wells , the Mumbles . |
| 14 | Even when nuclear physics brought what might seem less restrictive ideas , those ideas would be refinements on , and not a revolution against , the mechanistic perception of things . |
| 15 | Thus if trustees are to be changed during a tax year in order to export the trusts overseas , only gains made after the end of the tax year ( 5 April ) in which the export took place would be gains made by a foreign trustee ; gains made on or before 5 April would be taxable upon the trustees in the normal way as gains made by UK trustees . |
| 16 | Dwelling on twenty five years of festivity in Brighton — the nature of the town itself and various themes that the festival has adopted , such as Death , Heaven and the Victorians , The Seven Deadly Sins , Phantasmagoria , Myths and Magic … a suitable retrospective theme would be Saints and Sinners . |
| 17 | He did not stipulate which animals might be killed to provide immediate food , but environmentalists said the most likely targets would be antelopes and zebras in the Etosha National Park . |
| 18 | Exceptions would be undertakings whose business is similar to the group 's , are intended to be retained as long-term investments , and in which 3i has both active general management involvement and more than 20% of the equity . |
| 19 | On the one hand , it is natural to think of the world outside mind as consisting solely of particulars : the only things that could be general would be ideas . |
| 20 | The members of those boards would be saints if they did not seek to take advantage of the position in which the Government have placed them . |
| 21 | Abdel Shafi told Israeli army radio on Oct. 21 that all delegates would be representatives of the PLO " in the sense that all Palestinians have allegiance to the PLO " . |
| 22 | A more appropriate title would be Roads to Nowhere . |
| 23 | At that hour a cab would be ages getting through the twisting streets of the old city and across the Thames to Rotherhithe . |
| 24 | Mr Smith made clear that Labour 's first response would be to seek entry to the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System and that its spending priorities would be pensions and child poverty . |
| 25 | Initial priorities would be projects strengthening the infrastructure , privatization , reforming the financial sector , developing a productive and competitive private sector , restructuring industry , encouraging direct foreign investment and cleaning up the environment . |
| 26 | But for many parts of Orkney this new service would be years away in reaching them and so the familiar thump thump thump of that diesel statomatic generator filled the air . |
| 27 | Ladbroke 's had a book open on whether he would get round inside the distance but the far spicier price would be odds against him in bawling out a porter in Bangkok . |
| 28 | The French opposition may be described as right-wing but coporatism runs deep in France , so there 's no chance of any new government being so radical as to privatise France Telecom : the state phone company is not on the list of firms that France 's centre-right opposition may privatise if , as polls suggest , it wins March 's parliamentary elections , former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing said — Giscard , leader of the UDF party , told a news conference that all companies operating in the competitive sector of the economy would be candidates for privatisation , but that France Telecom , and nationalised transport and energy monopolies , would not . |
| 29 | And all the rest of use would be hounds chasing after him . |
| 30 | But , even within such a system the role of nations was not likely to be central because the main players in such a game would be units far larger than the states that most of the characterist , ie , separatist , nationalist agitations of the late 20th century were designed to form . |