Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stressing CCETSW 's target annual figure would remain 5,000 students , she said evidence showed that some qualified social workers were losing out to other professional groups in the race for care management posts . |
| 2 | Moreover , to close all nuclear power stations would consign 100,000 workers to the dole queues . |
| 3 | Readers were told it was ‘ muting criticism ’ even though Tory policies were wrong and would throw hundreds of thousands more people on the dole . |
| 4 | Meanwhile John Edmonds , general secretary of Britain 's general union the GMB , claimed the rate rise would throw 250,000 people out of work . |
| 5 | A senior administration source told The Daily Telegraph that the Yeltsin team had informally agreed a ‘ sacrifice list ’ of minor ministries that it would throw one-by-one to hardliners ‘ like bones ’ if the need arose . |
| 6 | Let's stick to this concept , I , I welcome it , I think it shows good thinking on the part of our officers and I would like to suggest that er , I take er , a back seat on this one , and I , I , I 'd feel probably , set up a sub-committee , I would think four or five is ample , and I would like to propose that Malcolm chairs this meeting , so that we have a fresh brain and a younger brain , looking at the future 's problems . |
| 7 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 8 | Each course would last at least three months , and would cover one of five subjects — anatomy , physiology , pathology , materia medica and therapeutics . |
| 9 | she never said how much the pound was worth , well I I do n't think it would cover five pence piece . |
| 10 | Furthermore , they argued , such an area would cover one-twentieth of all France , stretching into Chablis and part of the Loire . |
| 11 | On an average day Mark and his entourage would cover 18 to 20 miles with Tara carrying half a ton of equipment on her back . |
| 12 | It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country . |
| 13 | I said , so how many of those would grade three , level three child have to get to be at a level three ? |
| 14 | To this I would wire 2 of my 3 200 watt heaters ; the third would be wired up to the internal stat . |
| 15 | Launching two benefits guides , CPAG said major changes to the benefits system , partly as a result of community care and the Child Support Agency , would affect millions of claimants . |
| 16 | The ban , the first of its kind , would affect 120,000 Californian lawyers — and cause havoc for the scriptwriters of ‘ LA Law ’ . |
| 17 | The first cuts would be made in July 1993 and would affect 16,000 national servicemen , 8,000 professionals and 4,750 civilians ; the number of air force combat aircraft would be reduced from 450 to 400 and several bases would be closed , while naval forces would be regrouped in the key ports of Toulon on the Mediterranean and Brest on the Atlantic . |
| 18 | On March 29 the Cabinet approved the suspension of municipal and provincial councils , announcing that the measure would affect 397 out of the country 's 1,541 municipalities , and 14 of its 48 provinces . |
| 19 | He announced that the USA would be sending Greece surplus tanks and artillery and would lease two frigates to the navy . |
| 20 | If one took the distance as only one kilometre and we regard that as absolutely insufficient for a village of the character of Flaxton , we would prefer one and a half miles or two point four kilometres as the minimum . |
| 21 | I would prefer two divisions of the Championship and , in time , perhaps of the Sunday League , with promotion and relegation . |
| 22 | RATHER THAN SIT THROUGH ten minutes of The Pocket Dream , any sensible person , unlikely as it may sound , would prefer three hours of wife-beating , child abuse , paranoia , and the rape of a mentally-retarded woman in The Crackwalker , the first drama by the Canadian playwright Judith Thompson to be seen here . |
| 23 | The idea put about by Ministers at the time that there would be competition in the water industry — because people would compare one region of the country with another — is unrealistic . |
| 24 | It was reported on May 18 that Poland and the Soviet Union would conduct 10-15 per cent of their trade in hard currency in 1990 and make a complete switch from the beginning of 1991 , thus ending the barter system and trade in non-convertible roubles [ for January 1990 COMECON summit agreeing to review existing trade arrangements see p. 37202 ] . |
| 25 | It would hence require 1000 times as much food and would excrete 1000 times as much waste products , as we are reminded by the distinguished early twentieth-century biologist J.B.S. Haldane in his famous work On Being the Right Size . |
| 26 | Surely you would want one or the other , which is why this rackmount Ampeg looks like a good match for the Yamaha bass ; it has straightforward controls which are still exactly what you would want , and you can then modify the sound with the bass itself . |
| 27 | We had indicated when we asked him to quote that we would want one sheet like that to represent what each office was able to produce . |
| 28 | what would make fifteen out of this lot we 've got here ? |
| 29 | Right so five times three would make fifteen and what have we got left over ? |
| 30 | That would make five . |