Example sentences of "[be] [adj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any decision that preparation and presentation should be separate would have to be justified to the public and be open in the last resort to judicial review . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , to guarantee that four satellites will always be visible would require 24 of them — and there will not be that many around for another few years . |
| 3 | For ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) to be true and ( 3 ) to be false would involve a contradiction . |
| 4 | The GREY program has automatic intensity adjustment and if it were to be useful would need to be modified to provide a user override , at least during development of the measuring technique . |
| 5 | According to Institute Council member and chairman of the Professional Conduct Directorate Pat Brenan , the Big Six are now so huge and control such a large share of the UK listed company audit market that any behaviour judged to be anti-competitive would invite the attentions of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 6 | Other minor points which may be helpful would include : The position of the gear lever after an accident ; what the speedometer registers if damaged in an accident ; the position of other instruments , such as obligatory light switches or windscreen wiper switches ; whether the driver had consumed any alcohol prior to the offence ( provided the prejudicial value does not outweigh the evidential value of such evidence ) and the mechanical condition of the vehicle . |
| 7 | To be late would earn a reprimand and possibly a warning from those who stood above them . |
| 8 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 9 | Their memorandum on US policy towards Indo-China recognized the possibility that without what it called ‘ a bolder political approach ’ the French — and the US — might well be heading into a debâcle which neither could afford ; but the drastic political measures which were reckoned to be necessary would have to be a matter for voluntary decision by the French government . |