Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Come along , Mr Curtis , I think Mrs Sutherland 'd like to be alone for a bit . ’
2 However for a load torque of 0.4 Nm the maximum operating speed would have to be limited to 200 steps per second and there would be additional problems in operating at speeds around 20 and 40 steps per second .
3 However for a load torque of 1 Nm the maximum speed would have to be restricted to 200 steps per second and the positioning time would be 1000/200 = 5 seconds .
4 Order , for example can function as a noun or as a verb and the transition probabilities of both senses to following words would have to be computed .
5 Indeed action would seem to be necessary for the input systems to function properly : the role of eye-movements in vision being the most obvious case .
6 Mr Wyatt said action would have to be taken at the Total Power Tools offshoot , which has not been performing well .
7 The Truman administration recognised the catastrophic deterioration and determined at the beginning of August that action would have to be taken .
8 In providing reasonable access to a representative range of published material , a librarian is required to take note of the needs and interests of the public as a whole ; from time to time pressures , which this Association would feel to be undue , have been brought to bear on a librarian to discontinue the acquisition and display of material , which is thought to be unacceptable and which thus might prohibit the service to certain minorities whose interests the libraries are equally supposed to serve .
9 Apart from this statutory function , such an Association would need to be largely self-financing , which implies a structured system of membership subscriptions .
10 Raw villagers recruited into the unfamiliar discipline of industrial labour would continue to be unruly , and so long as the harsh conditions typical of early industrialization prevailed , the workers would no doubt prove highly strike-prone .
11 If the illness was long term then employed labour would have to be considered .
12 The carefully worked-out plan of the military plotters was for as swift a takeover as possible ; if , however , the ideal was a classic pronunciamiento along the lines of 1923 , General Mola was not alone in appreciating that times had changed and that opposition would have to be overcome .
13 For example , different aspects of a picture , a coin and an Egyptian mummy would need to be emphasised if they are to be distinguished from other objects of the same sort .
14 Their legs would need to be proportionately stronger , more like a reptile 's or a mammal 's , in which case they would need to have the metabolism of either a reptile or a mammal .
15 If that did not work , a coalition would have to be built .
16 and that er , you know , has lead to a lot of misery in some cases , er , also I mean there 's question of viability of our own scheme and I er , think er you know , er there are a number of questions which I as a lay-man would like to be , you know , I think the seminar is probably the right to do that .
17 For luxury and exotic products , such as mosaics , recourse would have to be made , save in exceptional circumstances , to the nearest major centre .
18 Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century .
19 Might it not follow that other steps would need to be taken to help curb local unacceptable populations of rats and mice ?
20 Reform could take many guises , but there would have to be large investment in housing renewal , educational provision and job creation , while steps would need to be taken to reduce the real but , Scarman argued , not institutionalized , racism apparent within the Metropolitan Police .
21 Once all water which contains or could on present trends contain , 50 mg/litre nitrate is designated ‘ vulnerable ’ , steps would have to be taken to reduce nitrate pollution .
22 This view depends , of course , on seeing the reader , not as a unique individual , a private being , but as a vessel or meeting point for a variety of cultural codes and literary conventions , and it is in these terms and not those of affective experience that reading and readers would have to be discussed : the reader qua reader is as much the product of a ‘ grammar ’ ( however loosely this notion may now be conceived ) as was the text in classical structuralism .
23 Computers for commercial data.processing , where the assumption may be invalid and where an accumulator would have to be very long to deal with character string data formats , tend to use the two-address format and not provide an accumulator .
24 Bowls of fruit , flowers , even the cruet would have to be paid for .
25 The removal of this insurance was , of course , a significant factor in terms of developments , as the consequences of poor management in the future would have to be addressed at local level .
26 The demand for electricity was thus being artificially boosted : the price was known to be sufficient only to meet the historic average costs of supply , not the costs which in future would have to be paid if the demand were met .
27 A Field Agent would have to be cautious .
28 With the evolutionarily intrusive possibility of linguistic deceit , as opposed to mere malfunction of communication , communicative exchanges would then come to be understood as having truth as their aim ; and the Gricean template would come to be true of the pursuit of those aims .
29 Our surveys indicate that such units would have to be restricted to dimensions appropriate to the Navigation .
30 UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge .
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