Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [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 One member of his family could come and visit him that afternoon and yes , we would be allowed to bring food , which would be examined before being given to the prisoner .
7 Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that .
8 and that obviously they would be tend to be other children with mother 's there so they would need perhaps a play facility there and other children who goes to the E N T clinic can go to the not just go to the outpatients casualty
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ?
12 The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is .
13 ( And if the 1.5–2 million surplus workers now in jobs were added , it would be seen to be catastrophic . )
14 With openness , one could argue that the Institute would be seen to be discharging its obligations under statutory regulation and its charter .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Any attempt to do so would be , to that extent , void and , if necessary , would be declared to be void by the Supreme Court .
22 SINGLE travellers would be justified in being up in arms over InterCity Sleeper 's latest ad suggesting that you : ‘ Save money .
23 ‘ But we were told that when the work resumed there would be no cause for concern as the mud and filth being dredged from the Lagan was to be carefully loaded into ‘ sealed lorries ’ which would be washed before being driven away .
24 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 .
25 An assessor would be needed to be brought into the workplace at a cost , or it would be necessary to go to an assessor .
26 Maybe you could the only way we could do it is er a joint account and that would be have to be based on trust you know , a mutual trust between er y your two main people er y you would just have to trust them erm nobody , how do members feel about if you
27 When he told him he would be arrested for being drunk , Sweeney butted him in his left eye and brought his knee up to his groin .
28 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 .
29 The system would be designed to be particularly user-friendly , emphasising the enhancement of worker skills rather than de-skilling .
30 Pilger would be allowed to be editor in chief , but to take the job he would have to resign from the Board of Directors .
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