Example sentences of "would be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Letters would be welcome . |
| 2 | Letters to the Editor Letters would be welcome . |
| 3 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the covenant then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your covenant payment . |
| 4 | In the above example the gross amount of the gift was £1,000 , so the donor would have to certify that he would be paying tax of at least £250 . |
| 5 | In this way your gift to ACET will qualify for Gift Aid relief even though the monthly payments would be too small to do so . |
| 6 | Care would be needed with the wording used in any such scheme and ACET can give you more details about this . |
| 7 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the payment then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your Gift Aid payment . |
| 8 | The authorities promised early elections , and said the former president and others arrested would be brought to trial . |
| 9 | The government subsequently announced to the press that ‘ a research visit to Sri Lanka would be considered favourably if a formal request were made ’ by AI . |
| 10 | AI stated that it strongly feared that the refugee population would be at risk of certain torture , ‘ disappearance ’ or execution if returned to Iraqi Government control . |
| 11 | If you have served in the armed forces and would be willing to assist in the work of this group , or if you can assist with contacts in ex-service organisations like the British Star Association , please write to : . |
| 12 | The government subsequently announced that ‘ a research visit to Sri Lanka would be considered favourably if a formal request were made ’ . |
| 13 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 14 | It would be too crude a generalisation , though , to say that critics are concerned with form , while historians are interested in the context of art ; both the forms and contexts of art are common ground for the critic and the historian . |
| 15 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 16 | Not every city would be suited to this approach , it must be admitted . |
| 17 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
| 18 | Sculpture parks are an enjoyable innovation of the late twentieth century , or perhaps it would be better to say a welcome adaptation of an existing practice . |
| 19 | One story about his teaching is that a new student would be told to observe a fish in a tank . |
| 20 | ‘ Look again , ’ he would be told . |
| 21 | It would be wrong to dismiss this sort of criticism as mere sales talk , particularly in grand auctioneers ' catalogues , though there is little danger of such publications being reticent . |
| 22 | It would be worth knowing how many exhibition visitors obeyed these examination instructions . |
| 23 | A diagram of the art world , according to Wolfe , would be made up , in addition to the artists , of ‘ about 750 culturati in Rome , 500 in Milan , 1,750 in Paris , 1,250 in London , 2,000 in Berlin , Munich , and Düsseldorf , 3,000 in New York , and perhaps 1,000 scattered about the rest of the world . |
| 24 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 25 | His Postscript evokes the aim of a white-coated Doctor Kundera ‘ to solve an aesthetic problem : how to write a novel which would be a ‘ critique of poetry ’ and yet at the same time would itself be poetry ’ . |
| 26 | I feel that Albert Maillard , if he existed , would have no time for Kapuscinski 's impressionism , for his absence of dates , figures and state papers , and that Albert Maillard would be wrong . |
| 27 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 28 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 29 | I think that many of his readers would be prepared to bear witness to the sense that somewhere in there among the changing shapes is the usual nonpareil . |
| 30 | Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream and Hamlet would be a good starting point — As You Like It , Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar you may already be familiar with , as they are often set for O level courses . |