Example sentences of "would be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " .
2 Under new disputes procedures , ( i ) competition cases would be handled by the EC Commission and the ECJ if they involved companies from both the EC and EFTA ( and by EFTA only if they concerned only EFTA companies ) ; ( ii ) disagreements over the operation of the EEA would go to a joint EEA political committee , with either party having the right to seek binding arbitration if the issue were unresolved ; and ( iii ) the ECJ would have sole powers to rule on the interpretation of EEA laws , while EFTA courts would give their " best endeavours " to comply with such rulings .
3 She demanded guarantees before aid would be resumed following the refusal by Bosnian Serbs to allow convoys to reach isolated towns in eastern Bosnia .
4 The Earl announced that unless the weather deteriorated again , the Tournament would be resumed on the Friday morning and all of the participants spent Thursday drying out and preparing their costumes .
5 It was hoped , however , that the worst would be over once conflict in the Gulf had been resolved ; normal trading , people assumed , would be resumed in the summer of 1991 .
6 This would mean that in the absence of clear words , the terms of the hypothetical letting would be dictated by the market at the review date , and not by the terms of the lease .
7 The level of supplementary allocations would be dictated by the success of councils in obtaining grant from the various EC programmes operating in Scotland .
8 One thousand police would be posted to the suburbs that summer and 12 more " houses of justice " would be built as centres for dispute settlement and advisory services .
9 Now , the question for parishes would th they would n't be abolished , the , the question is , how much additional powers and responsibilities would be devolved to the parishes , and that 's the question .
10 Control of most branches of the economy , except for fuel , energy , metallurgy and communications , would be devolved to the republics .
11 Industry Minister Taj El-Sir Mustafa said that this would be undertaken with the assistance of World Bank experts .
12 At the time the decision was that a review would be undertaken at the end of the conflict or ‘ in six months time ’ to look at the long-term future of the OCU .
13 Nevertheless , at some future data an exercise would be undertaken by the Organization and Methods section to examine the feasibility of using one document to produce the updating information required by both the Payroll Master File and the PMIS .
14 Although the communiqué stressed that NATO should " deepen its dialogue " with eastern Europe , it left open the question of whether such dialogue would be undertaken by the alliance or by individual members .
15 Under this scheme , which is about to be announced to member governments , initial assessment of a wide range of goods would be undertaken by the country of manufacture .
16 A further DM20,000 million would be channelled into the fund from the federal budget .
17 The cash would be channelled from the government to the universities via a commercial company so that in the words of the report , ‘ industrial commitment and market considerations are guaranteed ’ .
18 The Whitsun visitors would follow the Easter ones ; in no time at all the hotels would be jammed to the doors .
19 If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed .
20 The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC .
21 Management of the filing system would be aided by the introduction of the disciplined procedures required to operate the computer system , and by an improved awareness of the overall state of the system at any time .
22 Others suggested that such functionality would be integrated at the motherboard level , and that Sun was working on the technology independently to its current emulation partner , the UK 's Insignia Software of High Wycombe .
23 SunPics spokesman Kevin Olsen said that Adobe technology would be integrated within the four layers of its NewsPrint system , particularly the imaging and font layer where X11/News and its own well-established F3 scalable font format standard already reside .
24 He was a god , poised to be at the centre of another Big Bang , creating a new universe with which he would be integrated in the most positive way .
25 Now would be her favoured time , now when the brothers would be gathering in the church for Compline .
26 To see profit as the prime motivation to LMS would be to detract from the sense of involvement and success that support staff may potentially receive from its effective management .
27 Our next stop comprises a pair of gems that would be world famous were they more amenably located , but that would be to detract from the peerless setting in which both Aldeburgh and Thorpeness golf clubs find themselves .
28 I could see the boy holding the post would be flanked by the APC which would be able to put in fire straight down the line of the ditch .
29 ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’
30 It said that a strike would be damaging to the company and to its staff .
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