Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , if they had foreseen it , persuading political authorities to react on anything like the required scale and at the required speed would have been very difficult . |
| 2 | It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter . |
| 3 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |
| 4 | What he actually did was right or wrong according to the criteria we have discussed , while his intention was right or wrong , on Bentham 's view , according as to whether his action would have been right or wrong if things had turned out as he expected . |
| 5 | Even though the reason for permitting the employees to continue work pending the appeals may have been born out of a sense of leniency , the proper course of action would have been to suspend the employees pending the hearing of the appeals . |
| 6 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 7 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |
| 8 | No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid . |
| 9 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 10 | Had the mill not been built , acting as it was , a barrier across the tidal tributary , the idyllic scene on the other side would have been vastly different . |
| 11 | Bay did thrash Connah 's Quay 7-0 in last season 's Welsh Cup , and also hammered Briton Ferry , and Bryn Jones agrees his side would have been title contenders . |
| 12 | Headmasters were always members of the council , in those days , and they were always tended to be La Liberal or Labour , which I the present Labour would say was very pale pink . |
| 13 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 14 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 15 | Then , the arguments concerning accessibility , formality , time and expense would have been , to some extent , less valid . |
| 16 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 17 | The defendant would have been better advised to display his notice in a prominent position near the reception desk . |
| 18 | Some tabulation would have been useful . |
| 19 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
| 20 | If the boy had growled over his shoulder : ‘ Stand out of my light ! ’ the illusion would have been complete . |
| 21 | Stock would have been excluded from coppiced areas but the importance in the medieval scene of wood-pastures for stock-feed ca n't be over emphasised ; nearly every entry in Domesday quotes the area of woodland and the number of pigs it supports . |
| 22 | It was not actively hostile to the construction of owner-occupied stock , but its own intended programme was so large that the potential demand for such stock would have been much reduced . |
| 23 | The simple explanation would appear to be that Jacques worked in the family business on the rue du Harlay with his father and older brother Jean , Martin 's successor in 1712 , until Jean 's death in 1720 , when , as noted above , the workshop ceased , at which time the remaining stock would have been liquidated for reasons of inheritance . |
| 24 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 25 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 26 | Surely , the most effective denial of this satanic allegation would have been to allow the rituals of the higher degrees to be published in full . |
| 27 | By the time she finally headed south again Kirsty 's future would have been decided . |
| 28 | A few years back , when the scale of the problem that AIDS would represent was just becoming clear , a senior civil servant tried unsuccessfully to nudge the Government about the need for a policy to handle the impending crisis . |
| 29 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 30 | Shipton would have been saddened to see the old rotting tins and abandoned jerrycans that seemed to be typical of all military movement in this area . |