Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Any woman would be honoured to be your wife . " |
| 2 | In general … rejection appears to increase with the development of disability and the continuation of caring … only a handful of these disabled mothers would be said to be receiving tending in a context which was predominantly loving … |
| 3 | And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space . |
| 4 | The speaker of [ 14 ] was a newsreader on Radio 4 : In a Gricean framework ( Grice 1981 ) , a speaker who produces an utterance knowing in advance that the hearer will not be able to establish its relevance would be said to be deliberately flouting the maxim of relation in order to achieve a special effect . |
| 5 | The margins applied to the spot rate would be said to be at a premium , premium because it makes the US$ more expensive in terms of sterling to enable the cost to be passed on . |
| 6 | Equally clearly , this is not what really happens since , if it were , rhythms would be observed to be timed irregularly when different individuals were compared . |
| 7 | Sylvia would be acknowledged to be Burkett 's daughter , she would perform some small chores , but chiefly be explained away as evidence of Hope 's goodness of heart in giving his ‘ man 's ’ daughter the chance of a change of air . |
| 8 | The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is . |
| 9 | ( And if the 1.5–2 million surplus workers now in jobs were added , it would be seen to be catastrophic . ) |
| 10 | With openness , one could argue that the Institute would be seen to be discharging its obligations under statutory regulation and its charter . |
| 11 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 12 | If we seek a constitutive relation which is to be characteristic of a material but not dependent on its dimensions then the use of stress and displacement follows , for otherwise the behaviour of two differently sized samples of the same material would be seen to be different . |
| 13 | Behind Lord Denning 's concern to protect these institutions ' reputation was the fear that they would be discovered to be other than how they try to protect themselves , and that their integrity would be compromised . |
| 14 | This would enhance the authority of international law because of the inherent and self-evidently moral qualities of such an impartial legal process ; the ‘ bindingness ’ of international law would be increased because the aims of the enterprise — the peaceful resolution of international conflicts — would be assumed to be universally desirable . |
| 15 | Firstly , by what mechanism do patients or consumers become insured and , secondly how is health care supplied and paid for ? [ … ] under the pure Type 11 model described here , effectively all residents of a locality would be assumed to be ‘ insured ’ with their local health authority . |
| 16 | Lately , he had begun to think that evolution was something that would occur in the soul and , in time , the fripperies of science would be revealed to be dangerous toys . |
| 17 | Any attempt to do so would be , to that extent , void and , if necessary , would be declared to be void by the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | In the ultimate case , when considering premises designed totally for automatic operation , the use of electronic display panels and controls sited in suitably protected premises remote from the area of risk may have to be considered and in the case of multiple points the need for communication in order to co-ordinate the operation of controls would be needed to be assessed . |
| 19 | An assessor would be needed to be brought into the workplace at a cost , or it would be necessary to go to an assessor . |
| 20 | The first is the large difference between the cost of providing some services and the amount of benefit which under the Bill would be held to be received . |
| 21 | The system would be designed to be particularly user-friendly , emphasising the enhancement of worker skills rather than de-skilling . |
| 22 | Pilger would be allowed to be editor in chief , but to take the job he would have to resign from the Board of Directors . |
| 23 | Under these circumstances bood sizes would be expected to be low and behavioural traits to emphasize careful and effective rearing and foraging under difficult circumstances . |
| 24 | In addition , these correlations between individual lipid and lipoprotein concentrations and platelet-specific proteins may explain the changes of platelet-specific proteins with instigation of diabetic therapy ( Preston et al , 1978 ) , as lipid levels would be expected to be elevated in uncontrolled diabetes and to fall with improved control ( Paisey et al , 1978 ; Simpson et al , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | The numbers of the skeletal elements are usually expressed as proportions of the numbers that would be expected to be present for a given number of prey individuals , which is usually the minimum number of individuals ( MNI ) . |
| 26 | Taking the present temperature gradient of 15°F per 1000 ft ( 28°C per km ) measured in the Larne-2 borehole as representative of the post-Triassic history of the area , it is estimated that where source rocks now occur beneath the Permo-Triassic of the Larne and Lough Neagh basins at depths in excess of about 11,000 feet , they would be expected to be within the gas zone with their coals generating abundant methane . |
| 27 | If there were no genetic susceptibility then the incidence of schizophrenia in the second twin would be expected to be the same as in the general population . |
| 28 | Size of establishment would be expected to be related to amount of training undertaken though in practice many libraries ( and not only small libraries ) appeared to undertake both less training and far less systematic training than must be considered ideal given that all staff in any size library will have training needs : |
| 29 | As the OECD research group on traffic safety in residential areas has commented , ‘ signing regulations should be supported by engineering structural measures as enforcement would be expected to be minimal . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She felt pressurised that she would be expected to be as career-orientated as she was before having the baby , ’ says Sandra , ‘ so she works with us because we are relaxed about it — if she does n't want to work on Wednesday , that 's fine , she can work on Friday instead . |