Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also agreed that the Committee would be formed of the Bondholders with Alfred Caldecott as Secretary ( pro tem ) and Mr J. C. Walker , the Manager of the Bank J. & C. Simonds , as Treasurer . |
| 2 | On his admission to a policeman in civilian life no doubt that person would be convicted of rape . |
| 3 | Many years later , it would be said of Australia that it was not a sea-going nation but a surf-going one . |
| 4 | The same would be said of two men with individual sights on the record book . |
| 5 | He hinted at the unlikelihood of Jack Pertwee 's being married that day and was inwardly amused to observe that this piece of information — the fact that Carter would be deprived of his cold chicken and champagne — distressed him more than Hatton 's death . |
| 6 | There would be public inquiry after public inquiry — for the law ensured that no closure could be made without one — and many areas would be deprived of valued rail services . |
| 7 | The cyclical nature of events was regarded by many thinkers as inevitable , because it was thought that otherwise they would be deprived of both ‘ rationality ’ and ‘ legality ’ . |
| 8 | Without state pensions , many elderly people would be deprived of access to any substantial financial resources in their old age . |
| 9 | This set out a pattern of Soviet policy in Far East and South East Asia in terms of a Soviet policy which sought to weaken the ties between the colonies and the colonial powers through the encouragement of nationalism and by capitalizing on the discontent caused by long periods of ‘ colonial oppression ’ and by disrupting the colonial economies either by armed action or by labour disorders so that the metropolitan powers would be deprived of revenue and resources . |
| 10 | The change provoked an extended strike on the part of the largely Russian speaking blue-collar labour force , and the Supreme Soviet Presidium in Moscow declared the legislation unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the principle of equal electoral rights ( some 80,000 , it was estimated , would be deprived of the franchise under the new regulations ) . |
| 11 | Obviously , if all security interests were possessory it would make secured borrowing virtually impossible as a debtor would be deprived of the ability to use the assets subject to the security in the course of business ( but English law has for long recognised non-possessory security interests ) . |
| 12 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 13 | It is very unlikely that a Labour Prime Minister would be deprived of his seat in this way , but it deserves to be noted that , however unwittingly , a piece of machinery has been created which could be used locally to deprive a Labour Prime Minister of his seat . |
| 14 | Related is the case with Sarastro 's stern announcement ‘ wenn ich dich ihren Händen liesse ’ ( ‘ [ you would be deprived of happiness ] were I to leave you in her hands ’ ) : here , as shown in ex.2f , Mozart underlines an emphatic crescendo to the climax of the phrase with the word ‘ staccato ’ ( in the left upper corner ) and decisive strokes in violins and basses . |
| 15 | The gently sloping sand beaches which the article associates with whale strandings would be composed of particles in the 1 to 2 mm size range , emitting noise in the 50 to 100 kHz frequency band . |
| 16 | The French proposals had four key institutional ingredients : a council of government heads or foreign ministers that would meet regularly , but where decisions would be taken only by unanimous agreement ; a permanent secretariat based in Paris which would also be intergovernmental since it would be composed of ‘ senior officials of the Foreign Affairs Department of each Member State ’ ; four permanent intergovernmental committees to take care of the policy fields of foreign affairs , defence , commerce and cultural affairs ; and a European assembly whose members would be appointed by the national legislatures . |
| 17 | Belbin concluded that the ideal team would be composed of one Chairman ( or one Shaper ) , one Innovator , one Monitor Evaluator , and one or more Company Workers , Team Workers , Resource Investigators or Completers . |
| 18 | This commission would be composed of mutually acceptable and appropriate international personalities and representatives from governments and international organizations . |
| 19 | Following a three-day meeting in London on Sept. 24-26 , the Sino-British Liaison Group ( JLG ) announced that Hong Kong 's Court of Final Appeal , which in 1993 would replace the Privy Council in London , would be composed of the Chief Justice , three Hong Kong-based judges and a fifth member to be invited alternately from two panels — Panel A , containing retired and serving Court of Appeal judges in Hong Kong , and Panel B , made up of retired judges from other common law jurisdictions . |
| 20 | If we adopted the two-phoneme analysis , the words ‘ church ’ and ‘ judge ’ would be composed of five phonemes each , like this : instead of the three phonemes , resulting from the one-phoneme analysis : and there would be no separate and phonemes . |
| 21 | Or that they might try to cross the Swamp and if so nothing more would be heard of them , for they would inevitably perish . |
| 22 | Tutilo would be warned of what was in store for him by the end of Vespers , if not before . |
| 23 | This drew the immediate and sincere response ( and it should be noted that the South African Rugby Football union comments published in New Zealand have not attempted to side-step the issue ) from Dr Danie Craven that every player who opposed the All Blacks in their five matches in the republic would be cleared of drugs use . |
| 24 | If we were pushed to the fringes of power we would be stripped of influence in both Europe and the world . |
| 25 | Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience . |
| 26 | The electorates of each country would be stripped of their powers . |
| 27 | The stolen car would be stripped of identifying marks such as its chassis number and number plates and given the write-off 's markings a process known as ‘ ringing ’ . |
| 28 | One of the two remaining ferry boats would be kept as a stand-by vessel and the other would be stripped of its engine and berthed at Canning Dock for possible shopping or leisure purposes . |
| 29 | You would be speaking of me or my friend Chatterton or one of the others . ’ |
| 30 | Miller considered that the cultivation of madder in England would employ labourers , usually idle from the end of harvest until spring , and thus parishes would be eased of the Poor 's Rate , ‘ a consideration worthy of public attention ’ . |