Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 2 | Out on the floor of the house , about half a dozen of the tables would already be occupied . |
| 3 | Although some of the groups would clearly not be competing with others for the same kind of housing ( for example , families with two or more children versus single applicants ) , there are potentially 25 different queues . |
| 4 | In a letter to the board , Jim Johnson , executive director of the Old Town Renewal Trust , said adoption of the proposals would greatly help to reduce the levels of personal crime , vandalism and disturbance to residents , a high number of whom are elderly . |
| 5 | As matter event horizon would go up , so that the sum of the entropy of matter outside black holes and the area of the horizons would never go down . |
| 6 | ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Of course , this particular instance was treated as a Venetian holiday by the press , and no reader of the reports would probably have cared had the whole wedding party ended up in the canal . |
| 8 | Series connection of the windings would therefore seem to be something that would never be used in practice . |
| 9 | The relaxed attitude of the authorities would certainly point in that direction . ’ |
| 10 | A more comprehensive description of the bones would probably reinforce one explanation or the other . |
| 11 | All right I mean all right she did so that one of the guys would perhaps carry it around for you . |
| 12 | Drainage of the marshes would also enable the development of proven oil reserves , about one-third of Iraq 's total oil reserves , adding 2,500,000 million barrels per day ( bpd ) to production . |
| 13 | Often one of the pupils would immediately intervene with a more open question when the interview was becoming stilted by inappropriate questions that did not provoke extended replies . |
| 14 | The existing users of the buildings would also have to be rehoused , although some of the taxmen are already set to move to Nottingham under the Civil Service 's dispersal programme . |
| 15 | Therefore , the following discussion is in accretionary terms , though some of the considerations would doubtless apply in protoplanetary theories . |
| 16 | And if the tape recorder had n't been rolling with me playing around on guitar , some of the songs would never have happened ; I would never have remembered them . |
| 17 | After such discussion one of the men would usually offer to show us a wild cocoa tree in the forest beyond his planted clearings . |
| 18 | In such a case a customer who took from the shelves would clearly be usurping the right of the owner . |
| 19 | If the tribunal had , for example , decided that it should be comprised of , inter alia , the need for certain fixtures and fittings , and then later ignored this but still invoked the phrase furnished tenancy , all the objections expressed to the separation of the sum from the parts would still apply . |
| 20 | To admit categories of persons other than those prescribed in the Statutes would however necessitate a change in the defined statutory qualifications for Membership of Convocation . |
| 21 | Israeli officials reacted angrily to the suggestion , claiming that a UN presence in the territories would only serve to inflame the situation . |
| 22 | Association in the Olympics would automatically clean up rugby 's image ( at least at the top level ) , and would markedly increase the coverage of the sport — at least every four years . |
| 23 | Prisons would come well down the list of priorities should Labour ever be in government , and those working in the prisons would soon discover that , too . |
| 24 | Because writing ahead to any pe any to the organisers would possibly be a useful thing to do , give them a lot of warning . |
| 25 | Her angry remarks to the newspapers would once have been quickly forgotten . |
| 26 | Rittner stood down as Arts Council Secretary General two years ago , believing government plans to devolve the council 's funding responsibilities to the regions would drastically reduce its role . |
| 27 | The transfer of decision-making powers from the centre to the regions would certainly change this . |
| 28 | Then he said , " The Boxing and Coxing on the ships would only be possible for someone who controlled a shipping line . |
| 29 | In mid-September Castro indicated that the 26th July Movement newspaper Revolución 's polemical attacks on the Communists would no longer be tolerated . |
| 30 | That she should ever marry was not in his mind , though a spinster on the boards would hardly do . |