Example sentences of "[adj] would [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a stroke , this would neutralize the long experience of rural discontent between tenants and landlords , it would remove the over-bearing power of landlords in village communities and in the process eliminate one source of support for the ultra-nationalist movement . |
| 2 | Perhaps that was why he had embarked , without capital , on trying to put up a building , though god knows this would have no long life in Manhattan . |
| 3 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 4 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 5 | So if we could use , insist on issuing licences , that would go a long way to sorting some of these of these problems out . |
| 6 | Starving the defenders out seemed to be the only course , and that would take a long time . |