Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , Marx and Engels argued that one of the reasons why capitalism would be destroyed was due to the internal contradictions of the system itself . |
| 2 | The most significant change from the Green Paper was that SERPS would not be abolished but scaled down ; the proportion of earnings on which the pension would be based was reduced from 25 to 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Any Commander-in-Chief in a theatre where raiding forces would be involved was asked to comment on the outline plan , which was then put to the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 4 | Baldwin ( 1977 ) found that if the eldest child was abused , the likelihood that the second eldest would be abused was 78 per cent . |
| 5 | The necessity for the function to be characterised as ‘ judicial ’ before procedural constraints would be imposed was integral to this approach , because only bodies exercising such functions would be suited to adjudicative procedures . |
| 6 | In an animal , she told herself savagely , it would be called being on heat . |
| 7 | Residents of Killuney Park , a luxury cul-de-sac on whose doorstep the school would be built are to lodge a protest with the DoE 's Planning Service . |
| 8 | The conditions in which an independent counsel ( special prosecutor ) would be appointed were laid down in legislation passed after the Watergate scandal . |
| 9 | The representations which come from members of the public and others can not therefore be assumed in all cases to embody the approach which would be given were a a full understanding of the previous and proposed situations in the mind of those who made that proposal . |
| 10 | These , said the DoE , were ‘ a serious step backward ’ , The DoE claimed that the low sulphur coal ( under I per cent ) which would be needed was ‘ not readily available ’ . |
| 11 | In the proposed E two the only development that would be permitted is that which needs to be in the open countryside and that 's a much more rigorous test . |
| 12 | Within the above breakdown one can suggest the following modules ( none of which is comprehensive , only the flavour is indicated ) — the way in which each of the modules would be approached is indicated in the sample courses given in Section 5 : |
| 13 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 14 | Since the scheme only started in 1978 , the current maximum amount of additional pension to which you would be entitled is £66.97 a week . |
| 15 | The Kodak laboratories of my eidesis were being dismantled ; soon all that would be left was an out-of-order passport-photo-booth , mouldering on an empty station platform . |
| 16 | I was interested in his reiteration of the value of regional policies , because the criteria on which such a policy would be administered is of interest to one who comes from a county which is probably being hit by a more rapidly rising rate of unemployment than almost anywhere else . |
| 17 | ( b ) That if the effect of the proviso were to impose a restraint of trade then the consequence was that not only the proviso but also the whole of the paragraph to which the proviso related and which contained the stipulation that post-termination commission would be paid was void . |
| 18 | This distance relation score measures the degree of attraction between a lemma and its collocates , by comparing the frequency of a collocate in the concordances with the frequency that would be expected were all words distributed in the text at random . |
| 19 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 20 | Many of the boundary roads to which through traffic would be displaced are lined with housing : as Plowden comments , ‘ the environmental consequences of imposing yet heavier traffic burdens on them can not be dismissed simply by christening them ‘ arterial roads ’ or ‘ distributors ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Exactly when , where , how and if it would be resurrected was extremely vague . |
| 22 | All that would be required is a change in practice . |
| 23 | These instructions determine the citation order of the various concepts represented by the Schedules and the Tables and remove the need for facet indicators such as would be required were more flexibility of citation order permitted . |
| 24 | While most of the strands from which the new synthesis would be woven are already visible before the war , they could only be patterned into a new web within the altered conditions of the university in society , and in the " national life " of the post-war era . |
| 25 | The grand jury was also understood to have begun investigating allegations that city contracts had been granted to friends of Barry in return for drugs and other payments , and the possibility that further charges would be filed was not ruled out . |
| 26 | Note that a judge or district judge may sue or be sued in accordance with the rules set out below , but if the court in which the action would be commenced is a court of which he is judge or district judge , then the action may be commenced in the nearest court or most convenient one of which he is not the judge or district judge ( Ord 4 , r 7 ) . |
| 27 | Whether the victim did believe that immediate violence would be used is immaterial so long as the offender intended to cause the victim to have that belief . |