Example sentences of "[verb] would be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now since the number of waves a second is unlimited , this would mean that the total energy radiated would be infinite . |
| 2 | ‘ The only qualifications they would need would be common sense , a judicial temperament and an elementary knowledge of the limited aspects of the law which are applicable to such disputes , ’ Lord Donaldson said . |
| 3 | I mean basically he 's put that into account and then it 's how much will they need on top of that so he total that he would need would be three hundred and seventy thousand pounds of which there is a hundred seventy thousand so the shortfall 's twenty thousand , or two hundred thousand . |
| 4 | With the degree of mechanisation now found many of the hours claimed would be seasonal . |
| 5 | At no time is restraint to be used as a punitive measure , or in situations where the crimes that could be committed would be minor , such as shoplifting . |
| 6 | The strain of living there in the weeks to come would be intolerable . |
| 7 | Another major firm to benefit would be Anglo-French engineering company GEC-Alsthom , which has won the £300 million rolling stock order . |
| 8 | Mr Parkinson is coming under heavy pressure from competing private consortia to approve an alternative route to a new terminus at Stratford in east London , which they say would be cheaper than the British Rail scheme to Waterloo and King 's Cross . |
| 9 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 10 | North Korea would not sign the NSA until international pressure was lifted , he said ; then signing would be conditional on the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from South Korea , the total removal of the US nuclear threat , and simultaneous inspection of nuclear facilities in the South . |
| 11 | The average wait before this is located would be half a revolution if the whole overflow track were full . |
| 12 | So far as the performer is concerned , he has the defence that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that a programme involving the use of the offending material would be included in a cable broadcast , or that the circumstances in which such material was included would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up . |
| 13 | ‘ Not working is very disheartening — I do n't want to get to the stage where I do bad parts but being forgotten would be awful . ’ |
| 14 | The humiliation at being caught would be unbearable . |
| 15 | There were , moreover , rather more poor urban dwellers still lacking electricity supply than there were rural dwellers , and investment in the reinforcement , standardisation and extension of urban supplies ( some of which the Boards considered would be remunerative ) was being cut back while this uneconomic development of rural areas was pressed forward . |
| 16 | The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow . |
| 17 | But even as he lifted it , reflexes that she 'd always prayed would be lightning-fast in a showdown proved their sterling worth , galvanising her into action . |
| 18 | I wanted to find a job which I believed would be secure , since my primary responsibility was , and remains to this day , the support of my family . |
| 19 | In particular , men like Paul-Henri Spaak , who had worked so hard for the EEC , were conscious of the fact that many economic interests within the Six supported the foundation of the EEC primarily because of the advantages they believed would be accruable to themselves . |
| 20 | In a bid to defuse local hostility to the scheme , the 150-strong club has offered Braintree District Council a range of conditions it says would be acceptable if planners granted permission . |
| 21 | There are times when public opinion is n't the best way to decide a technical issue , but in this case the harm done would be minimal . |
| 22 | But it is believed that the bank will not pull the plug in haste as its image would take a knock and the money it is owed would be unlikely to be recovered . |
| 23 | If , for example , you are discussing how to solve a problem with a person who has more experience than you , then listening would be high on your list . |
| 24 | It argued that these were not soft options but properly applied would be tough penalties which aided the battle to reduce crime . |
| 25 | But because the demand for central control has arisen out of a general dissatisfaction with education , and this dissatisfaction is often directed towards an excess of ‘ creativity ’ in the classroom , a lack of a disciplined work-force , it is generally assumed that the central common curriculum to be nationally accepted would be down-to-earth , factual , able to be assessed , and marked by a tick or a cross . |
| 26 | Whether the son or daughter , which Cruise has said would be better than winning an Oscar , will be with the cou ple before Christmas is unclear . |
| 27 | Much of what is said would be true also ( in a modified form ) for small-number natural oligopolies , but I shall not examine such questions here . |
| 28 | ‘ If the Prince of Wales does not succeed she 's the one person people would feel would be acceptable . |
| 29 | Employees of the private firms selected would be helpless to resist Provisional dictates . |
| 30 | I have already cast some doubt on point ( b ) , or at least on the political effects which Marx assumed would be consequent on the concentration of labour ( Chapter 1 ) , while in the discussion of planning I argued that although point ( a ) may be broadly accepted it is by no means unproblematic , particularly given the fact that large-scale enterprises increasingly straddle national boundaries . |