Example sentences of "would be [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 2 | The chaos would be compounded by some schools claiming grant-maintained status . |
| 3 | It remains to be seen whether the changes were that dramatic , but the new dispensation was certainly to mean that sociological themes and realism generally would be handled with more care . |
| 4 | In February 1284 , Constance de Béarn , vicomtesse of Marsan , complained that her claim to the comté of Bigorre had been assigned a hearing by Jean de Grilly , seneschal of Gascony , at Langon in the Bazadais because , she alleged , he knew that ‘ the customs of Bazadais were against her , and that the opposing parties would be aided by those customs ’ . |
| 5 | Otherwise the men of Scotland Yard would be moving in all directions . |
| 6 | BSL would be enhanced by this recognition and use . |
| 7 | Soon the drawings of people with hunched shoulders , their heads bowed , would be filled with this drama . |
| 8 | Some dealers , all sitting together , would be listening to these lines for hours on end . |
| 9 | Varieties and eventually species would be formed despite any tendency for interbreeding with the main body of the population in the centre . |
| 10 | Not much would be served at this stage by ousting Sir Derek Alun-Jones as chairman , as some shareholders would like . |
| 11 | Cleaning staff would be employed for that site only , and usually on a full time basis , working to extremely rigorous standards . |
| 12 | There would be a fierce struggle , resulting in the Reds being bundled out of the building , whereupon the same tactics would be employed in another part of the building . |
| 13 | Some analysts have suggested the local press could be hardest hit and one recent newspaper report suggested VAT would be limited to those papers with circulations over 100,000 . |
| 14 | The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union . |
| 15 | He calculated that the Viet Minh would be destroyed in any attempt to capture his position . |
| 16 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 17 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 18 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 19 | So in the case of ’ money ’ , the corpus would be searched for all appearances of that word , and then the immediate contexts of each occurrence ( the concordances ) would be collected and truncated to extend no more than four words either side of the lemma . |
| 20 | ‘ There was an implied term in the contract of service that the employer would comply with ( the law ) from which it would follow that the servant would be indemnified for any damage caused by his negligence . ’ |
| 21 | They used their own judgment about how much threat would be involved for most people in those circumstances . |
| 22 | Outside the immaculately maintained and smartly guarded naval enclaves , where minds were drilled as thoroughly as bodies in uniformity and obedience , the privilege of royal society was granted on condition that it would be denied to all outsiders . |
| 23 | Since this singularity is time-like , it would be missed by most observers . |
| 24 | They know that the greatest damage would be done to this economy by raising taxes , by imposing a minimum wage and by restoring artificial trade union powers . |
| 25 | By the middle of January 1937 , he had spoken to Mairet , and he gave the impression that anything he might write about the crisis in the New English Weekly would be done with some reluctance , not least because he was extremely busy . |
| 26 | If mere contact were always enough then manifest injustice would be done in many cases . |
| 27 | Prison sentences would be increased for many offences , particulary those involving the use of guns . |
| 28 | How much danger would be posed to such pensions by some of Labour 's high-inflation , high-spending policies ? |
| 29 | Their grants would be reinstated from that date and they will obviously graduate at the end of the appropriate term . |
| 30 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |