Example sentences of "that [adj] would " in BNC.

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1 Sir David said that Associated would make further funds available for expansion .
2 The likelihood that that would happen should have been appreciated from the outset : if A committed an act of gross indecency with B , it was a strong inference that the converse was also true in the absence of special circumstances to indicate otherwise .
3 That was a general possibility and there was no reason to suppose that that would be the conclusion .
4 In the light of the defendants ' knowledge of her state of health it was reasonably foreseeable that that would happen if they were negligent and did not obtain a satisfactory resolution of her affairs .
5 The driver sounds so genuinely distressed , it seems churlish to complain ( not that that would do much good ) .
6 He was n't trading on his name ; he did n't think that that would have any particular influence .
7 Not that that would stop the terrorists from acting pretty well as they pleased .
8 But then they had realized that that would mean their Dad was all alone and so they had prayed again , that they could all be together in one place or the other .
9 But he realised that that would n't make sense , since a man can not be struck dumb and then speak of that condition , so what he said , when we asked him how he was , what he said was , very slowly , In Love .
10 But , somehow , he sensed that that would be an uphill battle .
11 ‘ I am hopeful that that would not be necessary , ’ said Supt Field .
12 Not that that would bother Constantinos .
13 ‘ I suppose , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ that that would be what one might call the grand-daddy of them all ? ’
14 On the thorny issue of when the company can be expected to return to profit , Passera said that the target was to break even in 1994 , and that that would require the company to break even at the operating level this year .
15 The head said that that would be the case and that Balbinder would stay for as long as he needed their help .
16 TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields .
17 There was a notion that that would mean conservatism , getting rid of the minority programmes .
18 But , we now have to consolidate , and I decided that that would have to a gentle process , not a sort of Birtian revolution .
19 And that that would not do .
20 And everybody knew that that would be a great journey .
21 I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother .
22 It seems to me that that would be a very anomalous and inconvenient result .
23 It seems to me that that would be wholly inappropriate — it would involve further analysis of the history relating to the local authority 's care of these children and that , I think , can be in the interests of no one , certainly not of the children .
24 I think Mr. Lloyd accepted , in principle , that that would be so .
25 And it was fifty-fifty , he said , that that would be said to be too big , which it was of course , in that room , taking up far too much space .
26 and Mark , he said it was suggested , and it was a general feeling that that would be more
27 Erm well , I mean that that would be be erm
28 mores or whatever , that that would object to it .
29 Erm er and if you had done some researches into the job opportunities and you you could decide that then that that would be good .
30 Erm I I me that that would have erm I believe very very limited erm a very limited impact on the village ,
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