Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ profiles ’ school-leaver would thus take his place among the list of the failures , whether designated as ‘ secondary modern ’ school-leavers , the educationally subnormal , the ‘ bottom 40 per cent ’ , or by whatever other title the no-hopers are characterized .
2 Earlier , on Feb. 7 , up to 70,000 people had protested in Garankuwa , in eastern Bophuthatswana , demanding that their South African citizenship be restored , but Mangope had reaffirmed on Feb. 18 that the homeland would never be reincorporated into South Africa .
3 The growing strength of such a new religion would gradually undermine the power of warmongering leaders , who so frequently use entrenched religious beliefs to instil into their sometimes reluctant followers , the will to continue a conflict .
4 Public values and government action would thus remain in opposition .
5 The physical interference need not be sufficiently forceful or well-aimed to result in some form of damage or destruction to a proper part of the victim , though we suppose that a violent action would generally be painful to the recipient .
6 Your client who is having to pay for the action would otherwise find himself in the position of being the loser financially despite an order on liability .
7 Speaking on Radio 4 's World This Weekend he added : ‘ Their action would also call into doubt in children 's minds just what authority figures are there for . ’
8 Mr Pena said the deal would be reviewed in a year and that congressional action would also be needed before BA could proceed with an additional $450 million investment , giving it more than 25 per cent of USAir .
9 Mr Pena said that the deal would be reviewed in a year and that congressional action would also be needed before BA could proceed with an additional $450 million investment , giving it more than 25 per cent of USAir .
10 Realistically , though , there was little prospect of the government 's making time for the introduction of such a provision , and in any event , the government has decided ‘ after very careful examination of the issues , that legislative action would not be appropriate ’ .
11 Earlier , the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , said he consulted Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell before signing the secrecy order on the documents — to make sure that his action would not threaten the liberty of the businessmen .
12 After urging measures upon the virtually comatose London committee of the Anti-Slavery Society he concluded urgent action would not follow ‘ unless the friends of the Cause in the Country exerted themselves without waiting for information and instructions from London and that many of our friends in London would be strengthened by a spontaneous movement in the Country ’ .
13 The Court of Appeal held that because the principle of effective protection only required that national courts should provide remedies for the protection of European rights which were as effective as the remedies available for the protection of similar rights in English law ; and since a plaintiff can recover damages against governmental bodies in English law only if a breach of private law can be shown ; and since the challenged action would not be actionable in tort in English law ; it followed that the principle of effective protection did not require that damages be available to the plaintiff as a remedy .
14 Lord Tenterden C.J. went on to point out that the defendant in the first action would not have been relieved from having to contribute to the defendant in the second case if the latter had been compelled to pay a larger portion than his share .
15 In fact , there is no necessity for the courts to abandon a concern with substantive outcomes entirely , since , despite the above strictures , a judicial evaluation of the likely profit consequences of a particular course of action would not be impossible , within fairly broad limits .
16 The action would not be an indirect method of enforcing the contract against the other contracting party because it lies against a third party and in tort .
17 We were told that the WO was hoping such draconian action would not be necessary , although they were watching an appeal case in North Cornwall against the SoS for the Environment who was pursuing several revocation orders .
18 In such a case , it is clear that if left to the Member States , the Community-wide action would not take place .
19 At the outbreak of World War I , both informed and common opinion held that a major , probably decisive , naval action would soon take place between the British and German fleets .
20 On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place .
21 Any such action would therefore lie against the landlord , but the landlord may well have a claim against its solicitors for negligence .
22 The action would then fail .
23 Such action would only damage the interests of both communities .
24 Nakedness would n't embarrass him — Lucenzo was quite without shame .
25 But the established association would clearly indicate , at this stage of research , that it is n't a good idea to have too much in your blood .
26 A levy through a trade association would also discourage credit grantors from membership . ’
27 The Association would strongly recommend that they should take effect at the earliest in January of the following year .
28 Mom gave birth to a baby boy , and called him Winchell ( not after the doughnuts , though the association would later cause him grief at school ) .
29 The nature , aims and objectives of such an Association would therefore need to be carefully thought through , and its formal relationship to Convocation as a statutory body be clearly and unequivocally defined .
30 Suppose now that the outcome each side would most prefer ( labelled 4 in preference order in the figure ) is to gain an ‘ arms advantage ’ .
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