Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it did , crowds of enormous humans would come clumping all over our beloved forest to look for Minpins and our quiet homeland would be ruined . ’ |
| 2 | In the absence of charters , the new colonies on the south shore devised constitutions of their own : Connecticut 's Foundations in 1639 were primarily concerned to bring a group of separate towns , each with a rural hinterland , together as one colony with a congregational approach to religion which would avoid the dangers of conflict and division , while the Constitution of Rhode Island , established in 1643 , took a long step further towards complete commitment to the view that no particular variety of religion would be given a special position and that everybody would be allowed to carry on worship freely . |
| 3 | However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous . |
| 4 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 5 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 6 | In eight knots of true wind the optimum boat speed would be about 6.15 knots at a true wind angle of 44 ° . |
| 7 | In 14 knots of true wind , the optimum boat speed would be about 7.15 knots at a true wind angle of 40 ° . |
| 8 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 9 | The court would be unwilling or unable to determine what speed would be expected from a competent getaway driver . |
| 10 | your top speed would be two hundred and seventy two miles an hour ! |
| 11 | We both thought an 8-iron would be enough with the wind , but it needed a club more . |
| 12 | Peter Lilley told the brewers that no action would be taken in the particular instance where a pub had not yet been freed because independent arbitration of rents was still taking place . |
| 13 | The company had therefore been properly served with English proceedings by an American museum in Ohio , but since the Ohio court was the more appropriate forum for the trial of disputes between the parties , the English action would be stayed . |
| 14 | Capricorn 's application for a stay of the English action would be granted . |
| 15 | A new policy adopted by the conference failed to define a ‘ lawful trade dispute ’ and which forms of secondary action would be allowed . |
| 16 | The party has not decided what would constitute a legitimate trade dispute under the law and precisely what forms of secondary action would be sanctioned . |
| 17 | Mr Ridley said the action would be pursued with the utmost vigour . |
| 18 | ‘ What Maradona said is the most stupid declaration of the Eighties by a football player , ’ said the Fifa spokesman Guido Tognoni , who added that no disciplinary action would be taken against the player . |
| 19 | Confident that Clasper would be brought down by his own members without any interference from him , Bunker concluded that his best course of action would be to emulate Brer Rabbit on this occasion , and ‘ lie low and say nuffin' . ’ |
| 20 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 21 | If , as was entirely possible , he found nothing and Vic turned out to be an innocent eccentric , this action would be inexcusable . |
| 22 | Union immunity from legal action would be allowed , as now , only if conditions such as a secret ballot had been met . |
| 23 | The editor-in-chief of Izvestia , the most respected national daily newspaper , also said legal action would be taken against the Speaker , for seeking to impose restrictions on the newspaper and employing ‘ Bolshevik psychology ’ to gag the press . |
| 24 | It was planned from the beginning that follow-up action would be taken by the participants wherever possible , so in the summer of 1980 Highlander hosted a workshop on land reform to which study participants and others from the region were invited . |
| 25 | Immediately after my robbery I had thought all this action would be to my benefit . |
| 26 | When you are experiencing a certain kind of bite which you are finding difficult to hit , try to relate the bite with what you have seen the chub doing or ; your close season excursions , then decide from there what course of action would be best to hit the fish . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that such action would be taken unless the offending bonfire(s) occurred very frequently and witnesses were produced to that effect ’ . |
| 28 | Action would be taken ! |
| 29 | Helpfully , the council added that : ‘ It should be pointed out that this action would be taken against all allotment holders , whether or not any individual holder has had a bonfire prior to the service of a notice . |
| 30 | We were told that the papers in the case were being examined and it was clearly implied that action would be taken . |