Example sentences of "would [adv] be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would , in effect , become banks and would presumably be members of the monetary sector . |
| 2 | At this point a wag from the back of the large audience called out " the only trouble is that it would only be 2½″ long ! " |
| 3 | Now there would only be days to finish things . |
| 4 | Most notable of the more recent examples would perhaps be Rawls ( 1972 ) with his assumption of ‘ primary goods ’ such as liberty , opportunity , wealth and self-respect , and Finnis ( 1980 , p. 59 ) with his ‘ forms of good … that are irreducibly basic ’ of life , knowledge , play and aesthetic experience . |
| 5 | As Street on Torts puts it , the basis of this authority and the defence it affords to torts such as false imprisonment ‘ is the need to maintain order in the particular organisation responsible for the training of the child ’ ; parental wishes would merely be factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a punishment was reasonable . |
| 6 | No , it would just be comments . |
| 7 | I would think it would just be trimmings . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not going to go down on my knees and thank you , Daddy , because that would just be words . |
| 9 | This item of equipment enabled the rapid assembly features of the whole range of equipment to be fully exploited , and reduced the erection times for some major bridging operations , from what would normally be months to merely a matter of days . |
| 10 | Refusal by the client to furnish a written representation that the firm believes is essential would normally be grounds for reappraising our relationship with the client and considering withdrawing from the engagement . |
| 11 | In this first part of Language in Popular Fiction Nash introduces an interesting narrative device , that of defeating the reader 's expectancies by presenting excerpts from serious literature in those parts of the analysis where there would normally be examples from popfiction . |
| 12 | Dorothea Wilms , minister for intra-German affairs , and Oscar Lafontaine , Social Democrat prime minister of the Saarland ventured to hope that there would soon be changes in East Germany despite the fact that its leader , had not shown the slightest inclination to budge during the 40th anniversary celebrations and talks with the Soviet president . |
| 13 | In 1931 it seemed unlikely that the Republic and the Basque Nationalists would ever be allies . |
| 14 | While there would always be problems of this nature in town centres , he wrote : ‘ I feel bound to say that , in my view , there is no need for the introduction of such a bylaw in Colchester . ’ |
| 15 | The duty operated in the real world in which there would always be obstacles to giving every shade of opinion equal air time . |
| 16 | First , that it operates in the real world where there would always be obstacles to giving every shade of opinion equal air time . |
| 17 | There would always be critics who would see it all as a carrot to attract the donkey . |
| 18 | She 'd have to show Martin that though they would always be friends , her first loyalty lay with her husband . |
| 19 | While the academies monopolized exhibitions , there would always be arguments about selection and the principles of selection . |
| 20 | ‘ They would always be pick-ups . |
| 21 | He knew that by-and-by , when they were ripe , they would drop down into the ground ; there they would keep soft and warm for a while , then they would grow into more plants , with seeds , so there would always be plants on the earth … |
| 22 | He added : ‘ Even if it rained between now and October more heavily than it has ever done in recorded time there would still be rivers , such as the Ver in Hertfordshire , that would not get enough water to enable them to flow properly . |
| 23 | She put it on the kitchen table now but suspected it would still be lumps of ice when they came to eat it . |
| 24 | If this were all that Goody claimed he was saying there would still be problems of definition but it might provide some insight into the specific nature of classical Greece and the specific forms of literacy developed there . |
| 25 | There would still be traces , Quincx , I 'm convinced of that . |
| 26 | Bogus officials , who gain entry fraudulently , would still be trespassers . |
| 27 | There would still be possibilities . |
| 28 | Indeed , such an academic structure might provide a good opportunity for the exercise suggested by Graff , in which students ( many of whom would probably be women ) would consider a feminist anthology of women poets of the past , and discuss how far they are admissible into the existing poetic canon , and what theoretical criteria might govern such admission . |
| 29 | In any event Damian would probably be volenti or the court could apply the maxim ex turpi causa . |
| 30 | There would also be problems with the EC if more authority was devolved from Westminster to Brussels . |