Example sentences of "would be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is a view which no doubt would be defended with equal firmness at Horbury which lays particular stress on the personal touch .
2 Appeals would be handled by military courts that are independent of government influence , Gad Ben-Ami , spokesman for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , said after a Christopher-Rabin meeting .
3 It should be replaced , in Burlatsky 's view , by a different concept , ‘ public , self-managing socialism ’ , in which many functions presently performed by the state would be devolved to civil society and its institutions .
4 Alternatively , major capital projects would be undertaken by private sector contractors who would finance and build the assets in question , operate them for a specified period in return for an agreed fee and then transfer them to the commissioning authority .
5 Under the legislation on " solidarity between communities " , F900 million of the current figure of F72,000 million in annual central government subsidies to local authorities would be redistributed from affluent towns to 400 poor ones , this amount rising to F1,500 million in 1993 .
6 It was planned to fly food to the north-east Kenyan town of Wajir , from where it would be trucked to Somali refugees living in UN camps along the Kenyan border or sent by air into Somalia .
7 She envisaged a shop where cleansing lotions would be displayed in simple bottles of all shapes and sizes and which would contain the natural ingredients she had come across during her trips to remote communities .
8 A more specific prediction might be produced on the basis of Easterbrook 's hypothesis , this would state that memory for central details would be enhanced with increasing risk , while memory for peripheral details would be impaired .
9 In a speech on Nov. 12 the United States President Bush announced that US diplomatic representation in Laos would be upgraded to ambassadorial level for the first time since the communist regime came to power in 1975 .
10 Under the proposals from Brussels the M4 would be upgraded for maximum heavy goods use , extending it all the way along the Pembrokeshire Coast to Fishguard .
11 Although Sir Cyril had spoken in January 1988 about ‘ hundreds ’ of CTCs , these would be funded by local education authorities .
12 This initiative was designed to stimulate local authorities to mount full-time programmes which would be funded from central funds — to the extent of £400,000 per project — provided that they met certain centrally determined criteria relating to equal opportunities , progression , the specification of objectives , the balance between general , technical and vocational elements of programmes , planned work experience , and assessment .
13 The move to cash planning meant that even if health service or teachers ' unions succeeded in reaching a pay settlement , there was no likelihood it would be funded in full , except by the NHS or local authorities making cuts in their non-salary budgets or employing fewer staff .
14 In early December there was some speculation that Shaikh Obeid would be exchanged for Israeli navigator Ron Arad , the only missing Israeli serviceman believed to be alive .
15 This envisaged 300 first-past-the-post seats plus 175 that would be filled by proportional representation .
16 Hurd confirmed to the House that 18 of the 60 Hong Kong Legco seats would be filled by direct election in 1991 .
17 The members of such groups typically believe that their specially created cameras are the only camerae lucidae ; if only people could be persuaded to peep at the world through their lenses , all other cameras would be condemned to political obscurity .
18 Jason Prior was going to come out of this shining like a knight in armour while she would be condemned to eternal darkness , everyone believing it was her fault .
19 In short , they and their children would be condemned to grinding poverty and , if their income comes from the state , to permanent state surveillance , not in this case for cohabitation but for ‘ scrounging ’ .
20 In the second round 50 per cent would be sufficient , but if this were not achieved the process would be repeated with new candidates .
21 The basic norms of behaviour and activity for parties would be defined by republican laws .
22 It follows that any proposal for change would be referred to customary ways of thinking , and this provides for the possibility of operational techniques which realize new ideas being devised as an extension of existing practices .
23 Occasionally we would be contracted by Ipuky to bring a cargo of silver ingots north from the mines on the Eastern Sea , and then upriver from the Delta .
24 Worried parents fretted that their children would be exposed to X-rated happenings .
25 Otherwise , as Evershed J said in Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 179 " … the master would be exposed to unfair competition on the part of his former servant — competition flowing not so much from the personal skill of the assistant as from the intimacies and knowledge of the master 's business acquired by the servant from the circumstances of his employment " .
26 She sought also to argue that he was in error in failing to decide that she had established a grave risk that they would be exposed to physical or psychological harm or otherwise placed in an intolerable situation if their return were to be ordered .
27 I contracted from the local community unit a nursing team that would be led by general practitioners and would form a true practice based primary health care team .
28 The premium put option provides a higher guaranteed return to the holder of the debt than would be received on identical debt without such a put option .
29 Erm I I foresee the possibility that erm we would be faced with lesser proposals lesser than the scale that erm Professor Lock contemplates because it would be said , well if fifty hectares is right for Ha er for Harrogate then what twenty hectares for Richmondshire ten hectares .
30 One legend taught that if a man and a woman caught the same wave they would be joined in physical union .
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