Example sentences of "[noun] would [vb infin] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the danger was that the pound would fall further than planned , said Mr Payne . |
| 2 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 3 | Lucille thought the girl and the cavalry officer made a very fine couple , but she wished the girl would smile rather than hold her face in such a cold and supercilious expression . |
| 4 | A fourth round of Premiers ' talks was due to be held in Pyongyang , the North Korean capital on Feb. 25-28 , 1991 , although the South 's refusal to cancel the next Team Spirit exercise ( due to begin in January ) made it unclear whether this meeting would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 5 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 6 | Mahathir said that the formation of such a group would benefit rather than stifle world trade . |
| 7 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 8 | A former Labour Prime Minister got that far in his thinking in the 1970s when he pointed out that one could not have high inflation and lots of employment and that high inflation would reduce rather than increase the number of jobs . |
| 9 | Sir Bryan rejects all of the many arguments advanced by the Bar to the effect that the extension of audience rights would reduce rather than extend competition . |
| 10 | The superimposition of massive conventional forces on what should have been an atomic strategy , made no sense to Churchill , who appreciated that financial pressures would reduce rather than increase the number of divisions that Britain could contribute to Western European defence . |
| 11 | On the morning after the result of the referendum had been announced , the British Foreign Secretary went on the BBC 's Today programme to announce , in effect , ‘ business as usual ’ and that the timetable for the passage of the Maastricht ratification legislation by the British Parliament would proceed precisely as planned . |
| 12 | Opposition leaders accused the authorities of having unilaterally ceased consultations with them on the bill , and were also seeking an undertaking that the elections would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 13 | In his New Year address to the country on Jan. 1 , and at a meeting with opposition representatives on Jan. 8 , President Ramiz Alia had insisted that the elections would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 14 | At the conference , the US Secretary of State James Baker promised that the USA 's engagement in Asia would increase rather than decrease following the end of US-Soviet confrontation . |
| 15 | Parents ' reports of birth weight and gestational age are sufficiently accurate for analysis and not necessarily worse than hospital case notes ; lack of accuracy would decrease rather than increase the strength of the observed associations . |
| 16 | If British Naval Intelligence heard nothing from her , they 'd presume the Dane was hostile , and the raid would go ahead as planned . |
| 17 | ‘ And with the abolition of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill , the terrorists of the IRA would come here as invited guests . ’ |
| 18 | If there was a ‘ fundamental disequilibrium ’ , then the appropriate action was a devaluation of the currency since temporary finance would delay rather than solve the basic problem . |
| 19 | But it was reasonable to believe that , as the international crisis mounted , the politicians would react differently if surrounded by a mass of mobilized and informed opinion than if left to their own devices . |
| 20 | The Polish government debated von Ribbentrop 's proposals and decided that , if granted , concessions to Hitler would start rather than end with Danzig , and would lead to demands for the return of Mazuria , Poznań and Silesia . |
| 21 | What they still lack is what the Tories would fear rather than scorn : three easy sentences to ring the bell . |