Example sentences of "[adv] would [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cited several reasons , not all of which perhaps would be accepted by your average credit manager . |
| 2 | They will often change from district to district , and much would be lost from our language if they fell into disuse . |
| 3 | Not much would be served at this stage by ousting Sir Derek Alun-Jones as chairman , as some shareholders would like . |
| 4 | Provided that the government acted efficiently , the result would be that the aggregate demand curve would not shift down : the tendency for it to do so would be offset by government action . |
| 5 | In Britain , two months earlier , the government had decided in a last-minute about-turn that its nuclear power stations , once the shining lamps that would light the way to the sustainably developed future , were unsaleable and so would be withdrawn from privatization of the electricity industry . |
| 6 | Naturally , I felt the temptation to deny immediately and unambiguously such motivations as my employer was imputing to me , but saw in time that to do so would be to rise to Mr Farraday 's bait , and the situation would only become increasingly embarrassing . |
| 7 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 8 | The bulb inside would be attached to a battery and when the bulb flashed the heat sensitive powder would explode — either splitting the copper pipe or causing it to splinter into shrapnel . |
| 9 | This is clear in the case of one-party states , where the party bureaucracy encroaches upon areas of decision-making that elsewhere would be reserved for civil servants . |
| 10 | Discuss the ways in which your answer to q.1 above would be affected by the use of a marginal cost basis of stock valuation . |
| 11 | The bill described above would be known as a commercial or trade bill . |
| 12 | The example sentence given above would be divided into feet as follows : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The A5 meanwhile would be converted into a motorway through Snowdonia . |
| 15 | For Lord John to run away would be seen as the most shameful of acts , yet he was terrified of staying . |
| 16 | Styles , patterns , colours , decoration , these were perpetual , scarcely changing decade upon decade , until the intervention of the trendsetter , that is ; one snap of whose fingers — those sensitive tips continually monitoring the pulse of What 's Next — and a community half the world away would be plunged into chaos , ruin , and confusion with bales and bales of unsaleable indigo , mirrored , bell-sleeved embroidered-yoke blouses to show for their efforts . |
| 17 | The collection started last March when it was agreed that it would be a good idea to see if money could be raised from something which normally would be disposed of , benefiting nobody . |
| 18 | This represents the maximum of information that normally would be found on a card , the minimum being the author , title and Subject-class mark . |
| 19 | More brilliance still would be given to the tune if the trumpets doubled the trombone at the octave above . |
| 20 | Burton 's Welsh and hungry and visceral sense that everything had to be grabbed or it would be lost forever would be reinforced at this critical stage in his life by the fatalistically hedonistic mood which infected so many . |
| 21 | People considering retiring early would be caught by that punitive tax . |
| 22 | I arrived in the vastness of a new country as what I thought a tabula rasa but there was writing underneath , the coded determinants of what I was and always would be inscribed in ( what shall we say ? ) acetic acid or lemon juice which gradually browned and showed in the revealing action of sunlight . |
| 23 | The first president would be directly elected , and presidents thereafter would be elected by the Riigikogu ( parliament ) . |
| 24 | Sharing with relatives after divorce So far I have concentrated upon two situations in which people may live with relatives , both of which probably would be regarded as a predictable part of the normal life cycle . |
| 25 | It probably would be varnished from square one but that 's not the original varnish . |
| 26 | The specific proposition was derived from the general and was put forward more tentatively : the rate at which the expected rate of inflation was revised upwards would be determined by the magnitude of the discrepancy between the actual and expected rates of inflation . |
| 27 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 've allowed yourself to be persuaded either by Lotta 's silver tongue or her golden purse to attempt to defraud me — then your best course of action now would be to make for the door before I remember that the blood of the ancient Vikings still runs in my veins ! ’ |
| 28 | He had already been doing the job unofficially , and now would be paid for it . |
| 29 | Earlier , the hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) appealed to the press to use some discretion in its coverage of tonight 's debate on the ground that scenes from the Piper Alpha incident inevitably would be harrowing for the relatives of those involved . |
| 30 | With regard to nuclear electricity , however , if we have nuclear electricity , which ca n't be turned down conveniently , then electric cars mostly would be sitting in garages overnight recharging , and that is when the natural trough in consumption of electricity occurs and therefore the use of electric cars could help to smooth the demand for electricity . |