Example sentences of "of [noun] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer of course would be for all suppliers to put a ‘ sell-by or ‘ best before date on the boxes of test kits with a specific shelf life . |
| 2 | Elections to a lower house of parliament would be by proportional representation and an upper house would be appointed by provincial governments . |
| 3 | They yearned for a society where the surplus product of labour would be at the disposal not of idle capitalists or degenerate gentry but of expert administrators . |
| 4 | A final one-day visit by a ‘ core group ’ of members approved the scheme indefinitely and agreed that the future pattern of review would be on the basis of a rolling cycle established by the Polytechnic . |
| 5 | Because actually the village of Keele would be under Nutton It 's only the University that he 's got under his chaplaincy . |
| 6 | Bowers , for example , reviews research indicating that speed falls from 55 to 45 km/h in such zones , with the associated implication that speeds for the fastest 15 per cent of drivers would be above 50 to 55 km/h . |
| 7 | While this survey has been concerned with public libraries , co-operation potentially encompasses a wide range of institutions , and an INSET network that concerned itself with training across the whole spectrum of librarianship would be of maximum value . |
| 8 | One of the constitutional forms of therapy would be of value in this situation . |
| 9 | It was unclear as to what the fate of Korea would be at the end of the Pacific War , since Korean affairs would be subsumed in the profound questions involving the future of Japan and the eventual intervention of the Soviet Union with much depending on the character of the American-Soviet relationship at that time . |
| 10 | Equally , to ignore the constraints of poetry would be to ‘ destroy the poetic line as a specific , verbal structure based on those facets of the word which retreat into the background in ordinary speech ’ ( Brik 1978 : 124 ) . |
| 11 | Anything you could take to slow or halt the onset of Aids would be worth knowing about . |
| 12 | There can be no understanding of what a distorted system of ideas would be like unless there is the possibility of a non-distorted system . |
| 13 | His idea of heaven would be for someone to design a device which would allow him to read a book in there . |
| 14 | The purpose is clearly to determine whether any other forms of intervention would be in the child 's best interests . |
| 15 | The question of reasonableness would be for the court to decide . |
| 16 | The first step in forging an alliance of Euro-Parliamentarians would be for national MPs to be invited to the special hearings on changes to the Rome Treaty being organised by the European Parliament . |
| 17 | The best time of day would be between twelve noon and three thirty or four o'clock , this is a time when the manager is generally out having one of his long lunches , er the assistant manager would probably return to the bank about round about two , two thirty , and the situation in the bank er between these times would be that there would be only a handful of staff , usually junior staff on duty who are more susceptible to passing information than the senior staff . |
| 18 | Thus the only way by which the government might achieve a higher level of output would be by cheating , by not following the rule it says it will follow . |
| 19 | More than a third of sales would be to Labour voters , another third to Alliance or Tory ( 12 per cent ) , and the rest to people who could not say which party they supported . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think a change of manager would be of any benefit to Crystal Palace . |
| 21 | Standard definitions of use would be of significant value when considering consents . |
| 22 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |
| 23 | Once again the period of hypnosis itself will take only about twenty minutes , after which we will decide what the best form of homework would be in the particular circumstances . |
| 24 | A key feature of the proposals in the consultation document is , once again , that the main focus of policy would be on the economic effects of market structure and conduct , and not on general public interest considerations . |
| 25 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 26 | A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently . |
| 27 | For the record , the St John survey found that the preference among men for a kiss of life would be from Catherine Zeta Jones , of The Darling Buds of May . |
| 28 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |
| 29 | The most immediate practical benefits are likely to be in foreign language teaching , where clear statements of the rules of gender would be of great value . |
| 30 | Were this the case , then Kuhn 's account of science would be of little value as a theory of science . |