Example sentences of "[adj] would [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that , contextual substitutions apart , naming symbols can never be entirely replaced by descriptive phrases , for this would mean substituting non-rigid designators for rigid ones , which might very well result in a change of truth-value of the propositions concerned . |
| 2 | Thus parents might decide to get the baby into a routine and this would mean imposing some sort of 24-hour cycle upon the child . |
| 3 | We found that older individuals showed less variability ; in other words , they became more ‘ set in their ways ’ and this would tend to stabilize daily rhythms . |
| 4 | This would involve completing fifteen circuits of a two mile circular course , and Geoff Dowling is completely against this . |
| 5 | In the short term , this would involve giving local government representatives , health workers and voluntary bodies a greater influence within the NHS . |
| 6 | Since only Lancashire have won more 55– or 60–overs trophies ( and barely at that , 7 to 6 ) , this would seem to confound any theories about the one-day form being a batsman 's prerogative . |
| 7 | All this would seem to cast some doubt on the idea that in using the language for communicative purposes , the learner automatically and without other instruction internalizes the detailed knowledge of language as a generative system available for general use . |
| 8 | This would seem to indicate that car availability can be directly related to age . |
| 9 | This would seem to preclude any direction being given to a taxing master other than for a taxation on a standard basis or an indemnity basis . |
| 10 | This would help attract passing visitors to stop for a drink or meal and would visually soften the rather bleak appearance of the exterior brickwork . |
| 11 | They say this would help convince charitable trusts who can give big donations that the people of Darlington are backing the appeal . |
| 12 | However , if you consider one large modern power station , that would require approximately one thousand windmills each the size of the largest electricity pylons we see these days , and since the best sites for wind energy are on hilltops , where the wind is strongest , or around the coast , where again it 's strong , this would require placing large numbers of windmills on the best hilltop views or beautiful coasting situations , and I think that would be as unacceptable as would an explosion in nuclear power stations — sorry , I do n't mean a — expansion in nuclear power stations . |
| 13 | The Company had hoped to be allowed to run cars across in service , but this would have necessitated Parliamentary Powers , which were not needed if a line was never to be used for passenger carrying . |
| 14 | Japan had few reserves to continue the struggle , though to have admitted this would have courted political disaster . |
| 15 | This would have increased after-tax profits of £193m for 1991 to £310m for the group 's life companies . |
| 16 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 17 | Failure to do this would have created serious problems for both the generation of a reliable multiplier factor and comparability between the two samples . |
| 18 | This would have commanded high interest rates but these might , on precedent , have been subsequently lowered . |
| 19 | This would have brought more people out into the corridors and foyers . |
| 20 | This would have avoided all discussion of the succession . |
| 21 | This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force . |
| 22 | This would have encouraged chemical interaction between the gases of the Earth 's early atmosphere to form organic molecules — although , to be sure , it would also have tended to break those molecules apart once they had formed ! |
| 23 | Lubin comments that ‘ Shyness probably made concrete political action impossible , for this would have required direct action with other people . |
| 24 | This would have left many people with worthless claims against insolvent companies . |
| 25 | This would have left visuo-spatial functions intact in the right whereas in women language could have become established in both hemispheres , crowding most specialised visuo-spatial ability . |
| 26 | Even this would have demanded more water than could be afforded . |
| 27 | Why the French would have had 50 books , folios & sets published by this time . |
| 28 | France sits on the board of the two West African central banks which manage the CFA currency , and the French would have to approve any decision by the 13 member states to devalue . |
| 29 | This has contributed to the widening gap between ‘ haves ’ and ‘ have-nots ’ recorded in recent times , which some would argue undermines social cohesion and ultimately impoverishes the quality of life for everyone in society . |
| 30 | Richard III would have had some sympathy for the frustrations of the Afghan guerrillas in their fight for Jalalabad . |