Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] would [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A lump-sum specific grant would change the budget line to 145 .
2 But games companies seem convinced that only the odd tomboy would enjoy the shoot outs and punch-ups of the average game .
3 It was agreed that sister would ask the district nurse to visit him to assess his mobility at home and give him help initially to bath .
4 Each clerk would have the knowledge and experience to deal with many different tasks , and would be a valued member of the workforce .
5 A layout of that kind would have the advantage that you could leave your work out on the desk in the room and go back to it later — you would n't need to tidy up before you started on another piece of work , because you 'd go to another room to do it .
6 And inside , the rat finds things out — though Christ knows how , no-one in their right mind would pass the time of day with him — and reports back to The Man . ’
7 In 1956 two American physicists , Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang , suggested that the weak force does not in fact obey the symmetry P. In other words , the weak force would make the universe develop in a different way from the way in which the mirror image of the universe would develop .
8 Of the seats where the Liberal Democrats are second , there are 16 where Labour is a poor third and a switchover by the bulk of the Labour vote would give the Lib Dems victory .
9 Plots of land were provided where houses could be built near the coast and it was hoped that fishing would become the occupation of former crofters ; it was the beginning of the villages .
10 Each chapter would show the place of a particular form of policy response , or independent activity , in the scheme of things ; it would comment on experience to date and record new initiatives .
11 In 1987 it signed a memorandum of agreement with Newham regarding the redevelopment of the Royal Docks that stipulated that regeneration would include the construction of social housing , the provision of training and community facilities , and so on ( London Borough of Newham , 1987 ) .
12 That regularization would reinforce the lesson of the factory siren : that to survive , all must be sacrificed to a formal pattern imposed impersonally on the individual .
13 The belief was that investment would pull the system back into financial equilibrium .
14 This advantage would constrain the drive for secession :
15 The Bill provides that a Scottish Parliament would have the right to vary upwards or downwards from the United Kingdom 's established level of personal income tax .
16 If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back .
17 I ask my hon. Friend to think of any reason why detailing the savage discrimination of the MacSharry proposals and their impact on Scottish agriculture would weaken the Minister 's hand when negotiating .
18 Virgin Group is expected to abandon its plan to run a train service in competition with British Rail ; the charges that would be imposed by British Rail would prevent the scheme from being commercially viable .
19 Mr Knapp said he hoped British Rail would recognise the anger among its 130,000 workers , but added : ‘ The board is in danger of making the same mistake as in 1989 of underestimating the mood of its workforce . ’
20 In an alternative universe , this cline would form the basis of an entire article itself .
21 Darwin regarded the local varieties that exist within many species as incipient new species , on the assumption that further change would increase the separation between the varieties to such an extent that they would eventually be unable to breed together .
22 The Israeli Peace Now organization ( on July 23 ) and Palestinian representatives claimed that this decision would allow the population of some 120,000 settlers in 140 Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip to be increased by a further 50,000 .
23 A further provision would have the effect of banning electoral alliances and coalitions .
24 For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey .
25 Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second .
26 In a letter to Mr Major last night , Mr Smith accused the Prime Minister of giving no good reason why the legal opinion on the Maastricht legislation should not be published or why it overturned the view from the Foreign Office during the last 10 months that a vote in favour of the social chapter would wreck the treaty .
27 I know the Craven Arms Town Council themselves are very keen on it , and they are going to invite the County Council to take part in the tasks , and I would very much hope that this Committee would support the County Council , doing everything they can to help Craven Arms and their particular erm , endeavours .
28 I explained to her that , although I could make no promises , since she now felt much more confident about the technique it was quite possible that this session would reveal the cause of her phobia .
29 The completion of this work would increase the convenience of searching the General Catalogue for researchers and save them valuable time , and it would also create savings in time for Library staff .
30 According to Moscovici , this reorientation would transform the discipline into ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( 1984 : 948 )
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