Example sentences of "[adv] [ex0] would be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there would be some trenchant criticism of the accounting techniques used by some significant companies and sanctioned by eminent auditors , or new ideas about the direction that accounting standards might take . |
| 2 | But perhaps there would be some way of persuading her ; at any rate , Emily would not give up her ideas . |
| 3 | Soon perhaps there would be another announcement . |
| 4 | He said , naturally there would be some changes amongst plant and animal life , but species would adapt to suit the changes in climate and atmosphere and so on . |
| 5 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 6 | However , in practice , if your claim is successful we would expect to recover all or most of your legal costs in addition to the compensation and so there would be little or no shortfall . |
| 7 | If this was not so there would be large forces between various pieces of materials . |
| 8 | So there would be stray references and allusions in the feature articles to events of great consequence or intrinsic interest of which even the bird-brained wives of the garden suburbs of malai-land were cognisant but not 1 , Adolph Ng , BA ( Hons ) Toronto . |
| 9 | The chairman called on the Department to take action about those complaints because if it did not do so there would be little industry left to take action about . |
| 10 | But of course if he worked for Raleigh where they 've got a vast labour force a vast pay as you earn scheme then any income would be taxed by Raleigh as a subsidiary source so there would be another code number there , they would actually be collecting tax at two sources , but they would still need to allocate allowances , it may well be that , at Raleigh for example , they 've covered that by allowances in which case they pull back five hundred pounds there to collect . |
| 11 | Tonight there would be another raid , sure as hell there would , and everything would be covered with muck and dust again . |
| 12 | It would take place in a different context , nevertheless there would be that opportunity and no doubt the adequacy of a public consultation exercise at the proposed modification stage would be a matter for the County Council themselves to decide . |
| 13 | The rest of the time was devoted to history or geography , but always there would be two afternoons given over to handicrafts , particularly knitting and sewing . |
| 14 | Rail unions said yesterday there would be widespread line closures and the down-grading of some InterCity routes if the Conservative Party wins the general election . |
| 15 | Ten years later there would be four hundred Americans with an annual income like hers , of over a million dollars . |
| 16 | The belief that sooner or later there would be another national emergency , which would force the nation to turn once again to him , was fundamental to de Gaulle 's strategy throughout the long years of opposition between 1946 and 1958 . |
| 17 | We could not include such a group because of practical difficulties and limited medical manpower ; also there would be inevitable concern that individuals agreeing to be part of such a control group would be self-selecting members of a group with additional risk factors . |
| 18 | Demand was thus satisfied for HE as a whole , although clearly there would be unsatisfied demand for particular courses or institutions . |
| 19 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 20 | She smiled at Hari as she moved towards the stairs , there was no order book but from now on there would be one and , if today was anything to go by , it would always be full . |
| 21 | Now there would be 18 million . |
| 22 | Normally by now there would be six or seven almost certain , but this time there are only two or three . |
| 23 | Overall there would be some increase in the recruitment of girls , but no qualitative improvement . |
| 24 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 25 | She even climbed to the old attic that she had never even seen before ; perhaps here there would be some painting he had done long ago . |
| 26 | She thought he looked at her rather searchingly , and she held her breath , for surely there would be strange untold stories about this place and surely he would know of them ? |
| 27 | She kicked where the cornflower walls faded to a thin azure ; maybe there would be thinnest . |
| 28 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 29 | Sometimes there would be two hundred cards on the pavement before someone fluked a cover and then all the cards were his and he cleared the deck . |
| 30 | Further , it was hoped that if nothing happened during the trial which newspapers could turn into titillating copy for their readers , then there would be less incentive for the papers to give widespread coverage . |