Example sentences of "[conj] [that] it would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece opposed recognition on the grounds that no country could claim the name of Macedonia ; that the republic , if independent , would only survive as the instrument of another country ; and that it would threaten northern Greece . |
| 2 | The government said that it would consider lifting the state of emergency still in force in Natal , and that it would give immediate consideration to repealing the Internal Security Act . |
| 3 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 4 | He said that Buthelezi 's approach threatened to bring him into " direct confrontation " with the government in Pretoria.The ANC said that Buthelezi 's purpose was to sabotage national negotiations and that it would boycott any referendum called to test the plan . |
| 5 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 6 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton said yesterday that he would be ‘ trying to change a direction of 12 years ’ with the economic agenda he will announce this week , and that it would create half a million jobs in the short term . |
| 7 | My colleagues thought it an impracticable plan and that it would put British manufacturers at a disadvantage — unless such measures could be introduced worldwide . |
| 8 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 9 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 10 | ‘ She said that Simon denied he had fathered you , and this was the cause of the feud , and that it would get worse , unless something stopped it . |
| 11 | The influence of such men assured that the Report would be tough , as well as humane , and that it would apply sociological insights to the analysis of the conditions of schooling . |
| 12 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |