Example sentences of "[prep] it would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you look down your table you 've got your concentrations here in parts per million and you can see that everything above fluorine would be a major constituent and everything below it would be a minor constituent . |
| 2 | Specialist events and working demonstrations , in particular , seemed to be the places where more of it would be heading in future . |
| 3 | If this book were concerned only with the unsolved problem of biology , 90 per cent of it would be devoted to two topics : behaviour and development . |
| 4 | Most of it would be devoted to Crabb 's bravery and service to his country during the war , the fact that he was an underwater expert and that he was always willing to test the latest equipment , some of which work was inevitably hazardous . |
| 5 | But surely , the sheer mechanics of it would be impossible in most schools . |
| 6 | It seemed so dreadful , when one looked at Susan , to think how much of her life had been wasted already , and to know that the rest of it would be spent in bondage . |
| 7 | Later , some of it would be loaded up again and taken north to trade for salt . |
| 8 | The only way to get rid of it would be for enough Tory MPs to join with the Opposition parties to throw it out . |
| 9 | Mr Cheney refused to pay his income tax on the ground that part of it would be used to build nuclear weapons for use in circumstances which would be in breach of the Geneva Convention Act 1957 , and that this illegal purpose rendered his tax demand invalid . |
| 10 | The notion of giving up one 's rights to a ‘ whole community ’ or of submitting to a decision forthcoming from the community or a portion of it would be a strange and abhorrent idea to them ( Overing , in press ) . |
| 11 | Much of it would be out of place here , but something Andy says is typical of their down-to-earth outlook . |
| 12 | Clear examples of it would be the cat leaping for its ball , or a lion in pursuit of a zebra . |
| 13 | While some of the revision work will probably be piecemeal , e.g. correcting definitions to which the editor 's attention had been drawn by other scholars or informants , quite a lot of it would be of the ‘ blanket ’ variety . |
| 14 | Without deciding the point , it seems to me arguable that , on the taxpayer 's argument , such loss or part of it would be an expense incurred by the school in providing the concessionary places . |
| 15 | The visual equivalent of it would be driving down a long street . |
| 16 | Which is why the gradient of it would be five times that expression to the power four . |
| 17 | She 'd come so far , she 'd given so much … and all of it would be meaningless without a final context of success . |
| 18 | And the thing which really makes it are the three chimneys , without those , I think the rest of it would be okay , but not terribly exciting . |
| 19 | I see well er , when you talk about updating er on page thirty one we have there set up at er Mr service charges , service co service parking costs , total and then personal costs total , estimated weekly total , are you saying the rest of the brochure was to remain unchanged and that portion of it would be changed ? |
| 20 | Erm lamps , kerosene , wicks and all the rest of it would be kept there . |
| 21 | If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song . |
| 22 | If there were evidence that the picture was stolen or pillaged , then obviously our attitude towards it would be rather different from what it is ’ . |
| 23 | This sounded like it would be fun . |
| 24 | Or if it 's gon na occur but it seems to me it would , or sounds like it would be a simple let in to the |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Scottish Office said its £1 million was handed over to Shetland Islands Council and claims against it would be passed on through the IOPCF . |
| 26 | I shall have more to say about occlusion a little later , but for now : grasping the fact of occlusion in the sense of grasping the fact that if something were removed then something behind it would be perceived because the something behind was there all along is an achievement of the central systems . |
| 27 | We thought that the site over at the station centre would be good as a shop outlet and as office space for recycling , and that the site behind it would be a good place to keep all the stuff until it can actually be recycled , erm , so we identified the site to start with , then we started looking at what 's actually possible as op opposed to desirable . |
| 28 | Clearly , the barrage and the type of development associated with it would be incompatible with the SSSI . |
| 29 | Its two most recent decisions on the Government 's power to restrain publications by former Crown servants — Spycatcher and the Cavendish Memoirs — were marked by references to the Convention and by an obvious desire manifested by most of the judges to ensure that both the law they were declaring and the decision they were taking in accordance with it would be seen to comply with Article 10 . |
| 30 | Then they felt that the most effective way of dealing with it would be for each main committee to look at the various aspects in detail , rather than take the and miss everything , best for each of the main committees to look in detail at each part . |