Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun pl] would be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening of the European Community telecommunications markets needs to be controlled , otherwise manufacturers could suffer , Georges Paricard , chairman of French telecommunications industry body SIT , told the lobby 's annual conference — if deregulation was done in an uncontrolled way , telephone operators would be reluctant to invest for the long term , leaving equipment makers deprived of orders . |
| 2 | He made sure that lay magnates would be present , ‘ so that [ as he wrote ] whatever is decreed by the authority of the Council , shall be firmly supported by the joint care and solicitude of both clergy and laity ’ . |
| 3 | If such estimates are correct , then offset schemes would be impractical on a large scale . |
| 4 | Perhaps my principal contribution was to have suggested the creation of rent officers and to have advised a formula for ‘ fair rents ’ which rent officers would be able to use in their day-to-day dealings with landlords and tenants . |
| 5 | On a two-address computer a " move " instruction which specified the address of both store locations would be available . |
| 6 | The problem with such a system is that a more detailed breakdown of costs into trades , elements or work sections would be difficult to achieve on a manual basis . |