Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Requests for copy which would occupy ten columns or less should be satisfied within four hours . |
| 2 | He refused to elaborate , but is known to have expressed dismay at a proposed increase in prize money for doubles which would give singles only a 70-30 advantage . |
| 3 | But his distaste went deeper than irritation at an unwelcome complication to his inquiry , at the bizarre intrusion of irrationality into a job so firmly rooted in the search for evidence which would stand up in court , documented , demonstrable , real . |
| 4 | Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount . |
| 5 | Club members — they have all either undergone open heart surgery themselves or have helped loved ones through the ordeal — display this zest for life which would encourage anyone faced with the same ordeal . |
| 6 | Supporters of devolution point to the differences inherent in the administration of Scotland which would assist a more independently-run nation . |
| 7 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 8 | Under certain circumstances indeed water would be taken upwards by the lift-for instance , if the bulk of the traffic was downwards and barges loaded to 65 tons , then each barge passing down would squeeze out into the top pond 3.150 cu. ft. ( or about ⅓ of a lock ) of water This however is an ideal case and the following statement shews the theoretical gain or loss of water which would occur in working out of these lifts . |
| 9 | The new road bridge spanning the Dornoch Firth was suggested as having a dual role — carrying both road and rail , the rail section to be a new piece of line which would cut out a long detour and dramatically reduce the journey time to the Far North . |
| 10 | He was proclaiming the imminent end of the present world , and the coming victorious rule of God which would break in from beyond . |
| 11 | The suspended sentence had the disadvantage of seeming to be not quite one thing or the other , with some sentencers succumbing to the temptation of adding to the length of the term of imprisonment which would have been imposed immediately , so balancing the act of suspension with greater severity in the event of a breach . |
| 12 | Maybe they were looking for traces of cement which would give the game away , but the excellent visitors ' centre explains that building materials such as cement were not available when the giant , Finn McCool , built the causeway . |
| 13 | Thus , if Nissan gains market share at the expense of cars which would have been manufactured in the UK anyway , problems may be caused for other companies , especially Rover which relies principally on the UK market for its sales . |
| 14 | While this language might not have been chosen under Kennedy , the advisers of the new president , Lyndon Johnson , went on to cite specific grievances against Britain which would have arisen under any president . |
| 15 | Its mandate would include technology transfers and the encouragement of investment in projects which would enhance or safeguard the environment . |
| 16 | One hears jocular allusions to AIDS in circles which would class themselves sophisticated but from this programme , it is clear that the early theory that AIDS was some kind of divine blight on homosexuals , is already discounted . |
| 17 | Sir Peter justified his call for openness in terms which would have been unthinkable from his immediate predecessor , Sir Kenneth Newman , and indeed from any predecessor : ‘ Professions , including police , tend by definition to be monopolists of knowledge and through that knowledge , power . |
| 18 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 19 | Oil Ministers from the member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) who had gathered in Vienna for their 93rd meeting on Nov. 25-27 , reached agreement on a cut in output which would involve restricting global OPEC oil production to 24,580,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 20 | Thus , those which would find the it relatively cheap and straightforward to cut pollution might be able to sell some of their units to producers which would find it difficult or expensive to do so . |
| 21 | We want to see them receive a contract of employment which would extend their rights , particularly in relation to health and safety . |
| 22 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 23 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 24 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 25 | In encouraging scholars to attend his palace , Charlemagne allowed a freedom of speech which would have been unthinkable from other men . |
| 26 | Not one Bank Assistant is earning a level of income which would qualify for consideration for a loan from any of the Bank 's Subsidiaries . |
| 27 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 28 | We also talked about the new settlement being self-contained and integrated , but came I think to a consensus around the table that the level of employment provision in the new settlement should be related to the level of employment supply in the new settlement as opposed to a level of employment which would satisfy employment needs |
| 29 | It could sustain a more rapid development of the ‘ productive forces ’ contribute to the greater satisfaction of social needs and produce a high level of employment which would increase the social power of the working class . |
| 30 | in calculating lost pension rights the correct approach is 1 ) apply the appropriate multiplier to the appropriate multiplicand 2 ) the appropriate multiplicand is the pursuers level of wage which would have been received if currently employed 3 ) allowing for all contingencies including the chance of obtaining a pension in the future the multiplier for a 48 year old was 6 4 ) the resulting figure should be reduced for the accelerated benefit bearing in mind that the pension would not have been paid before age 65 . |