Example sentences of "[adj] would [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would compensate for the extra costs and disadvantages of disability , and thereby help to reduce the disparity experienced by many older women between their needs and resources . |
| 2 | This would accord with the general understanding of the word objective , i.e. independent of the observer . |
| 3 | First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said . |
| 4 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 5 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 6 | One particular matter of concern would be the election of directors by particular constituencies ( shareholders on the one hand and employees on the other ) ; if it were intended that they should represent those constituencies , this would conflict with the general principle of company law that all directors should look to the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 7 | This would happen in the following circumstances : |
| 8 | Whatever weight this would add to the utilitarian scales , would need to be colossal to offset the social and economic ills which might well follow . |
| 9 | This would account for the agricultural implements , which include a plough-tip , the other tools being used by carpenters and gardeners . |
| 10 | This would account for the singular lack of internal buildings , even though a civilian element may have remained among the population as the sharp distinction between fort and town became increasingly blurred in the fourth century . |
| 11 | You could partition off part of the tank for the other fish but this would detract from the overall appearance and may not necessarily work . |
| 12 | Few would quarrel with the above statement but it is , of course , qualitative and any engineer or scientist needs a much more exact definition of stiffness . |
| 13 | If it were true that research effort in the area of the curriculum promoted teaching commitment , few would quarrel with the proposed obligation on the department . |
| 14 | On this argument higher rates of self-financing would lead to the artificial depression of sales and to under -investment in electricity , precisely the opposite of ‘ crowding out ’ . |
| 15 | The pressure comes most obviously in terms of the recently imposed completion rates for postgraduate research , but there also seems to be a more general irritation in policy circles with what seems to be the leisurely pace of higher education , a pace which some would link with the original meaning of the word scholar . |
| 16 | Some would argue for the third possibility on the grounds that if there were a complete set of laws , that would infringe God 's freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world . |
| 17 | In more realistic models the optimum value for γ 2 would depend upon the structural parameters of the economy . |
| 18 | The unemployed would vie with the employed by offering their labour services at lower wages . |
| 19 | The growth of any general practice whereby decisions of the Cabinet or of Cabinet committee were announced as such would lead to the embarrassing result that some decisions of government would be regarded as less authoritative than others . |
| 20 | ( It is arguable that life expectancy in 1984 would respond to the prevailing GNP sometime in the past , but we shall ignore that refinement here . ) |
| 21 | These would consist of the twenty-nine English polytechnics , about thirty other local authority colleges , and twenty-nine or so voluntary and direct grant colleges funded directly by the DES . |
| 22 | They Those would evaporate at the same rates , although that one would be gone sooner because there 's less off it . |
| 23 | Where appropriate , MAS would draw upon the local knowledge and resources of the KPMG International Network , which is represented by acquisition specialists in each country in Europe . |
| 24 | In the 80s , the tendency had been towards deregulation ; that would reverse in the 90s to re-regulation . |
| 25 | All that would change with the papal reform to which Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) has given his name . |
| 26 | What that would show for the 1980s is that general insurance companies have added slightly to their stock of UK company securities , years of sales being just outweighed by years of purchases . |
| 27 | We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’ |
| 28 | If forced to stop testing , the nuclear powers could probably get by without further testing for safety and reliability of the weapons they keep , though that would add to the nuclear risks , especially in less safety-conscious Russia and China . |
| 29 | That would account for the eight per cent swing from Labour to the Conservatives , which boosted Alan Stewart 's majority in Eastwood to over 11,000 . |
| 30 | [ That would correspond to the ordered n-tuple unc I With a little care one can even have an infinite number of terms on the right hand side . |