Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the plan outlined in the Journal , Prime would refloat under the name ComputerVision Corp , which would include the PrimeService third party maintenance business , and the vanishing minicomputer side would go in a management buyout . |
| 2 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 3 | The UN predicts that a reduction of 30 per cent in the commercial debts of the 15 most indebted developing nations would result in a 25-per-cent increase in their national incomes over the next five years . |
| 4 | This in effect would result in a net 6 per cent increase . |
| 5 | In the case of passenger transport undertakings such as railways and airlines which allow free travel to employees the test would provide mind-boggling difficulties of calculation and when the undertaking was running at a loss would result in a charge to tax that exceeded the fare charged to the general public ; this would also be the case where school fees were heavily subsidised by endowments . |
| 6 | The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards . |
| 7 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 8 | Séguin , whose eloquence throughout the campaign was widely reported , stressed his fear that Maastricht would result in a loss of French sovereignty , especially over monetary policy . |
| 9 | My amendment would result in a reduction in the burden on these people to the tune of 50 per cent . |
| 10 | His spirit was epitomised by the way he came charging in late on the final day , giving it everything he had , despite an unresponsive surface and the near-certainty that the match would finish in a draw . |
| 11 | Just as a rector would put in a vicar or curate to care for the souls in his parish , or a landlord would employ a bailiff or steward to manage his estates , so an officer would appoint a deputy to conduct the business of the office , usually for a small pittance , while he himself enjoyed the bulk of the proceeds . |
| 12 | Guests would stay in a cottage in the garden . |
| 13 | In support of this , it suggested that the ending of farm subsidies would result in a shift in production from farmers in richer countries to those in the developing world whose farming methods , the report asserted , were less polluting . |
| 14 | Brought up on the dictum that ‘ any foreign material in the body would re-emerge in a sea of pus ’ , his biggest fear was of bacterial infection . |
| 15 | A job franchise in the haulage industry would typically be such that the franchise would invest in a lorry and anticipate an income closely allied to driving hours undertaken . |
| 16 | Carrie would put in a bit of news regarding how the war was affecting the supply of sweets . |
| 17 | If the Bosnian Serbs decided to sign , Lord Owen would jump in a car , meet Mr Karadzic on the motorway , and get him to put his signature on the document , possibly in a toll booth . |
| 18 | Opinions vary as to whether more cautious and rational use of these drugs by general practitioners leading to a reduction in prescribing of tranquillizers and antidepressants would result in a decline in the number of suicide attempts ( Kreitman 1977 ) . |
| 19 | It is not clear what view of the section the court would take in a case in which there was a clash between shareholder and employee interests , and there was evidence that the board had favoured the latter . |
| 20 | Centre manager Susan Nicol said the management team would remain the same and there would be no noticeable difference to shoppers or tenants in the way Cameron Toll was run — although it was hoped the new owners would invest in a facelift for the centre . |
| 21 | The acquisition of Palatine would result in a dilution of Anglo-Welsh 's earnings per share . |
| 22 | Specifically , an expansion of demand would result in a reduction in unemployment but would also lead to a balance of payments deficit as imports increased . |
| 23 | Because our industrial base is contracting , any resurgence of consumer demand would result in a flood of imported goods to supplement our own under-producing industry with disastrous effects on the balance of payments . |
| 24 | The Court had jurisdiction to hear an originating summons on the question of the Inland Revenue 's right to demand information in a situation where the taxpayer had no statutory right of appeal against the demand , and a failure to comply with the demand would result in a penalty . |
| 25 | They believed that packing atoms together inside crystalline solids could produce so much pressure that the atoms would be squeezed together and hence fusion would occur in a test-tube . |
| 26 | I 've learned more in twenty-four hours than most people would manage in a week . |
| 27 | And Jay would bathe in a glow of wonder that another human being could move her so . |
| 28 | These core narrative clauses are represented by sentences ( f ) and ( d ) in the following sequence from the original version : Much wider agreement was reached on such patterns , where the sentences are temporally ordered and where a change in their sequence would result in a change in the interpretation of the chronology of the story . |
| 29 | Exactly the opposite would apply in a slump year . |
| 30 | These inspections were at the ‘ invitation ’ of the university department , but failure to allow an inspection would result in a course not being approved . |