Example sentences of "[noun sg] would be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information kept on a credit card would be wiped clean by the massive bursts of magnetism given off by the scanner . |
| 2 | Whether an equivalent car would be made available to a company secretary who was not a family member is a question of fact — perhaps depending on the size of the company and customs in the particular trade . |
| 3 | A vote in favour of secession would be carried subject to a two-thirds majority of the republic 's total electorate . |
| 4 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 5 | However , the ICRC also reported that Iran would not accept doctors , technicians or other professionals ( with which it was well equipped as the result of its war with Iraq ) , sniffer dogs or blood plasma ( on religious grounds ) , or satellite communications equipment ; it also insisted that food must conform to Islamic rules , and that those delivering the aid would be granted 24-hour visas only . |
| 6 | In a little while the Wheel would be set alight , released from its cradle and allowed to trundle down the slope , gathering momentum . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although justices had an overriding duty to investigate the proposals advanced by the parties notwithstanding that they had been fully agreed , the profundity of that investigation should reflect the reality that there was consensus between the parties , particularly when one party was a local authority with statutory duties and another the child 's guardian ad litem , and any period during which justices reserved their decision or reasoned judgment should be kept to a minimum ; that if justices , having fulfilled their duty to make an independent investigation of terms proposed by consent , came to the conclusion that other terms should be imposed on the parties , they should indicate the terms they were minded to impose and give the parties an opportunity to make submissions on them ; and that , in all the circumstances , the order should be varied to provide that there would be no contact with the father on the basis that the local authority would continue to perform its statutory duty to review each six months and that the half-sister would be afforded reasonable contact ( post , pp. 277B–F , 278C–D ) . |
| 8 | The alternative would be to slash public spending , a policy that few Indian politicians of any persuasion favour . |
| 9 | such work would be considered extra hazardous although each such case would be considered on its merits . |
| 10 | The Democratic majority in Congress , however , had opposed any such tampering with the Bill of Rights , preferring to demonstrate its opposition to flag burning by enacting the Flag Protection Act , even though it was widely anticipated that the Act would be declared unconstitutional in the courts . |
| 11 | A second would be to ensure corrugated iron covers on doors and windows are better secured and quickly repaired if removed or damaged . |
| 12 | It was hoped some aspects of traffic separation would be made mandatory , although he would not specify which . |
| 13 | Under the proposed " Energy Charter " , Western environmental and technical assistance would be made available to former eastern-bloc nations and the Soviet Union , in return for the West having improved access to oil and gas reserves . |
| 14 | And as there is n't the money available to do it at full commercial price , in my view we should go for what they call cross-subsidy , that is to say that they give erm planning permission on a plot for some commercial housing on which the landowner can make some money , and in , a condition of that would be that part of that plot would be made available for low cost housing . |
| 15 | A positive and practical way for the Christian community would be to offer necessary support for those willing to leave the arms industry . |
| 16 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 17 | Soon rumours started that the prisoners in the orphanage would be set free but no one knew where they would go . |
| 18 | I would like to advance the idea of a high level officer — an Information Officer perhaps — whose job would be to take overall charge of information services at the Garden and address the basic questions : |
| 19 | Play-groups , mother and toddler groups and the teaching of parenting skills to families at risk would all feature in the family centres , but a subsidiary aim would be to explore different models of self help . |
| 20 | At the first meeting of the Central Authority , Shinwell had told Citrine and his colleagues that a reasonable aim would be to meet full demand by 1951 ‘ if that was at all possible ’ in the light of other national investment demands . |
| 21 | Not all the land would be developed and certain areas contaminated by toxic waste would be left untouched . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If you did , half the top men in this town would be swallowing rubber tubes every weekend . |
| 23 | Pollution expert Michael Bradley said that oil companies were " all of a sudden doing some very amazing refinements to gasoline " , because they feared that the substitution of alternatives such as methanol would be made compulsory . |
| 24 | This would be on a charitable basis and any cash surplus would be made available to fund research projects . |
| 25 | Moreover , a US citizen accused of foreign bribery would be denied due process of law under the US constitution unless he could produce foreign witnesses and documents in his own defence . |
| 26 | But in addition to this , wine would be made available to the local population at an affordable price , and in a condition that allows it to be stored without spoiling . |
| 27 | His widow Sheila said last night she had hoped and prayed her missing husband would be found alive . |
| 28 | The sole function of the newly elected Assembly would be to approve constitutional reforms at a special session due to be held in April 1992 . |
| 29 | Perhaps the best beginning would be to collect important examples chronologically , and this is the strength of John Sweetman 's book . |
| 30 | In the meantime the thief would be peddling stolen radios ( from aircraft B ) whose serial numbers had not been notified on the stolen list . |