Example sentences of "would [be] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compensation both for planning restrictions ( in cases where a claim had been admitted ) and for compulsory purchase by public authorities was to be paid on the basis of existing use plus any admitted 1947 development value , but private sales would be at current market prices . |
| 2 | And sometimes , towards dawn , the music would be at full blast and there would be hardly any movement at all , nothing left except maybe just one couple kissing — and yet that looked like dancing too . |
| 3 | I warned him that unless he adhered strictly to the regimen I prescribed he would be at considerable risk . ’ |
| 4 | His mother would be at Thursday-evening Bingo , Rose-Ann out in Len 's car . |
| 5 | The purpose of the Act above all was that future developments would be on low-density garden suburb or garden city lines , primarily the former . |
| 6 | Claims to privilege are the same as they would be on ordinary discovery . |
| 7 | We were on our way to the river to photograph the landscape which , Lady Rutherford told us indignantly , would be ruined for ever if Mr Knightley allowed Mr Dinsdale and his industrialist friends to dig a quarry , part of which would be on common land . |
| 8 | that would be to English law questions which we 're certain of interest today |
| 9 | This official would be to public law rather what the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the criminal law . |
| 10 | But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt I needed advice about the base unit because I was n't sure how easy it would be to mass produce from the prototype which had hemispheres studded into it . |
| 12 | Publicity would be of paramount importance in his quest for popularity . |
| 13 | The Ulster representatives feel that Manchester is capable of staging a games of ‘ unparalleled quality ’ which would be of lasting benefit to world sport . |
| 14 | The Ulster representatives feel that Manchester is capable of staging a games of ‘ unparalleled quality ’ which would be of lasting benefit to world sport . |
| 15 | Therefore , a thorough analysis of the regulation of H1 transcription , both at the basal level and at the enhanced stage , would be of major interest for the understanding of the control mechanisms of gene expression at the transcriptional level . |
| 16 | The emphasis of this ‘ directed ’ ( or controlled ? ) research , it was announced , ‘ is to be on pragmatic , problem-solving enquiries ’ ( i.e. policy-orientated research ) , which , it was explained , ‘ would be of cost-effective advantage to the force ’ . |
| 17 | It was decided that their successors would be of similar size and anew steel cutter was designed by Technical Branch with a length of 80 feet , a beam of 16 feet and a draft of 6 feet . |
| 18 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |
| 19 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 20 | This was the first time that the government had confirmed that all votes would be of equal value ; de Klerk did not specify , however , whether there would be a common voters ' roll or separate rolls . |
| 21 | ‘ The quarry would be of tremendous benefit to the building industry , ’ said Mr Jones . |
| 22 | Du Pont in the USA had invented nylon in the late 1930s and it was clear that the material would be of tremendous use to countries at war . |
| 23 | Such a policy would be of especial benefit to bilingual or multilingual children . |
| 24 | What is more , it was also clear that , mechanically , such fins would be of real assistance out of water as in it , had the fish , like its ancient forebears , been living in shallow water and become stranded . |
| 25 | Can your precious ethnography tell us anything which would be of practical use about managing these queues ? |
| 26 | Julian Spalding , the director of Glasgow museums , says he did not want to ‘ create just a museum of Christianity , because that would be of limited appeal and too narrow in range . ’ |
| 27 | But this would be of limited value to the defendant , since any costs recovered by the defendant would be subject to a charge in favour of the board under section 16 of the Act and the operation of regulation 103 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , the detail of which I need not examine , and would have the effect in this case that the defendant would in fact recover only a very small proportion of the costs he actually incurred . |
| 28 | If honourable members would in fact stick to the debate in that particular way and in fact er er it would be of great advantage of the house it is a short debate er and and going off the the main scope of the debate in fact leaves less time for other people to speak . |
| 29 | The regional CBI believed that that would be of great benefit and was grateful for my right hon. Friend 's measures to alleviate the uniform business rate . |
| 30 | If it were abandoned , the burden on local authorities of trying to collect what the Prime Minister described as a virtually uncollectable tax would be substantially lightened , and that would be of great benefit . |