Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandys accepted the need for carriers in limited war and enshrined the continued existence off our carrier groups , one of which would normally be deployed East of Suez , in his 1957 White Paper . |
| 2 | Together with the Activity Books they provide an invaluable teaching resource which will save teachers hours of time which would otherwise be spent recording or researching materials . |
| 3 | I thought of my mother , she would probably be baking scones , her apron dusted with flour . |
| 4 | Because , according to Pöhl , ‘ monetary policy must not be obstructed by fiscal policy ’ , an ‘ independent ’ central bank would not only be completely unprecedented in recent history , it would also represent an immense concentration of power in the hands of unaccountable bankers , who would perforce be implementing policies which might be very unpopular , within an area in which there may well not be the kind of national consensus which obtains in Germany . |
| 5 | Imagine yourself as an examiner working on a huge pile of scripts in pleasant summer weather when you would rather be playing tennis . |
| 6 | They eat ‘ dinner ’ at nine in the evening or even later , while I am ravenous at five o'clock when at home we would usually be having tea . |
| 7 | There would probably be delayed TV rights in America , and the fight could just be the making of pay-as-you-view in Britain . |
| 8 | prior to ratification there would always be enabling legislation , incorporating by statute those prospective treaty obligations which could not be given effect under prerogative powers , and required changes to domestic common law or statute . |
| 9 | The scale of the problem is such that £94m could be spent in Middlesbrough alone and there would still be housing need in that town . |
| 10 | I am sure that , if those on the Treasury Bench had been in local government , they would soon be facing surcharges for the abuse of public funds . |
| 11 | But of course if he worked for Raleigh where they 've got a vast labour force a vast pay as you earn scheme then any income would be taxed by Raleigh as a subsidiary source so there would be another code number there , they would actually be collecting tax at two sources , but they would still need to allocate allowances , it may well be that , at Raleigh for example , they 've covered that by allowances in which case they pull back five hundred pounds there to collect . |
| 12 | The honourary medical officer of the Longhope lifeboat is Dr Tony , and he would normally be assisting casualties to be uplifted , but that day he himself was to be winched up from the lifeboat to the helicopter , and once that part of the exercise was completed and he was back , safely on deck , I asked him , How was that ? |
| 13 | He would also be seeking compensation and if the authority made no offer he would have no hesitation in suing for a five-figure sum . |
| 14 | He concluded by telling Scott that there was no need to hurry with the revised elevations as he would only be asking Parliament to vote sufficient for the foundations during the present session . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the Socialist Party , one of the four smaller parties represented in the assembly , announced last night that it would also be backing Mr Havel 's candidacy . |
| 16 | I understand that if a bookshop were not registered for VAT it would still be charged VAT by its suppliers but would not be able to reclaim either through Customs & Excise or by passing the charge on to its customers and therefore would face very heavy pressure on margins . |
| 17 | It was this which Donald Wilson studied , approved , and finally placed before David Whitaker , whose job it would now be to develop ideas into stories . |
| 18 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |
| 19 | It would then be adopting route 1 , as distinguished in 2.2 . |
| 20 | These processes range from ( a ) active illustration ( still relatively simple ) to ( b ) kinds of active reinvention and exploratory discovery and , crucially , ( c ) tension , contradiction or what would elsewhere be called dissent . |
| 21 | In so doing , they inevitably rejected the idea of innate sexual difference , laying much greater emphasis on what would today be called patterns of socialisation . |
| 22 | You get used to seeing so many things , you become immune to what would normally be considered perversions . |
| 23 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 24 | Using what would now be called GIS skills , Openshaw ( 1980 ) examined over 13 000 1 km grid squares in the UK which intersect the coastline and related these to data from the 1971 Census ( which were made available for such grid squares ) . |