Example sentences of "would be [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 2 | allocations under I five , I would be wholly happy sir and would be able formally withdraw our objections absolutely . |
| 3 | Erm and , and very enjoyable days they were , but erm I think if I were to plan a big party , or an anniversary or something like that , and I 'd hope those would be jolly enjoyable days too . |
| 4 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 5 | Families where there is both a record of schizophrenia and where the index child was born after a particularly long or difficult labour would be particularly suitable targets . |
| 6 | This idea would also be splendid for young and old alike , using a black pattern on a white background with really bright colours added and it would be particularly good fun for children to wear . |
| 7 | The majority of suggestions have been on the lines that there should be a one- or two-year period in which it should be possible for the capital of discretionary trusts to be distributed tax free provided the settlement was made before 26th March 1974 and the result of the distribution was that there would be either absolute entitlement to the property or an interest in possessing it . |
| 8 | Perhaps there would be little silvery marks , stretch marks in the skin of her belly , silvery green like the barley field . |
| 9 | Fun as it might be to imagine what a ‘ top twenty ’ list might include , there would be little real purpose in discussing the practicalities , or otherwise , of going on a cruise , owning a race horse , buying a caravan , flying Concorde or whatever , since not only — even among married couples — would there be wide variations in choice but more particularly , since normal budget wisdom does not apply , any advice would risk being grossly misleading . |
| 10 | For the District , perennially in financial difficulties , the £500 annual Carnegie grant over a three-year period was accepted on the understanding that the Bedfordshire Scheme would be financially self-sufficient.The scheme was welcomed by the LEA and the Cambridge Extra-Mural Board and a Cambridge teacher and part-time WEA tutor , Harold Shearman , was appointed . |
| 11 | But opponents to the plan say the ban would be just unnecessary legislation and an infringement of freedom . |
| 12 | There would be just young women for men to compete for . ’ |
| 13 | I was sitting talking to him — Chet dropped me off there and after a couple of hours Chet came back and was talking to Scotty , and I was thinking , ‘ If I was a music writer , this would be just pure gold ! ’ |
| 14 | Had n't he said that to express it would be just empty words ? |
| 15 | In answer to further questions from me , he said that no formal evidence would be sought but that there would be wide informal consultation . |
| 16 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 17 | Bookshop staff went round handing out sweets and , as the light faded , a portable telephone was taken along the line for those who wanted to tell their friends and relatives why they would be so late home . |
| 18 | No , I 've got to revise for my erm science test tomorrow and I 've got loads of stuff to do , I 've got to keep going for the weekend , actually I have n't got that much to do , I 've got drama that I can do if you just would be so kind turn over to number three so I can have a look at some adverts I 've got a , will there be any adverts after |
| 19 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
| 20 | Henceforth , tradition , superstition and , later , biblical authority itself would be under continual scrutiny and correction from the empyrean dictates of critical reasoning . |
| 21 | Instead the government called for each council to appoint an officer responsible for reviewing the propriety and legality of council business who would be under statutory duty to report if an action or decision was likely to be improper or unlawful . |
| 22 | UK air transport would be under national control , but with three separate companies : the existing BOAC , for services to the Empire and Commonwealth , North America , Middle and Far East , and Pacific ; a new British European Airways ( BEA ) ; and British South American Airways ( BSAA ) . |
| 23 | However , I think that there would be fairly wide agreement that Government actions in north America during recent years have resulted in the proportion of funding coming from north America being greatly diminished . |
| 24 | This would be fairly straightforward affair . |
| 25 | If we needed to talk to your scheme and if we would , it would be fairly serious incident for us to come to you , to tell you about it ask Phil for some help with it . |
| 26 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |
| 27 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 28 | The risk in doing so would be that new patients might well not see the need to do so and might feel that this would be an inappropriate intrusion into the realm of individual freedom of choice in their personal lives and , further , that life might not be much fun in the straitjacket of abstinence from all these substances as well as from their prime drugs of choice . |
| 29 | My proposal would be that general practitioners continue to provide 24 hour availability by telephone when their particular knowledge of an individual patient is needed . |
| 30 | A likely explanation would be that correct adaptation on the basis of the LE form requires the speaker to " split " /f/ , thus : LE [ f t ] , JC [ f t ] " foot " , but LE [ k ] , JC [ t ] " think " . |