Example sentences of "[that] [noun] would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In a letter to Lul , archbishop of Mainz in 773 , Alhred and Osgifu expressed the hope that Lul would help the Northumbrian envoys in Gaul to establish peace and friendship between the Northumbrian and Frankish courts .
2 The commission , in its first rule , hoped that authors would mention the official name in parenthesis next to the name chosen by them .
3 It was claimed that closure would affect the local atmosphere since the school acted as a focus of activity yet there was little mention of any economic loss and no fear of any demographic effects .
4 He argued that aid would betray the Baltic states , and , just as important , would remove the Soviet Union 's incentives to put its house in order .
5 Launching a document called Green Power , energy spokesman Kevin Barron , said that Labour would change the existing levy on fossil fuels used for other energy sources ( primarily nuclear power ) into a clean energy levy .
6 of people in that wider community told a Harris poll that they believed that Labour would raise the basic rate of tax , 57 per cent .
7 In contrast , the Munn Report assumed that headteachers would take the broad decisions after consultation .
8 He and Chris Grant , on The Thinker , jumped the last together , but it was always on the cards that McCourt would have the upper hand .
9 Before the Observer leaked extracts , ministers in the DTI took the view that publication would allow the Labour party to accuse them of jeopardising the rights of any defendants to a fair trial .
10 We agreed that Deborah would cover the administrative side of the discussion , the need to raise funds for rehabilitation , for residential care and for support for the carers ( whose life is as devastated by the loss of the person they previously knew as it is by the burden of twenty-four-hour dependency . )
11 The Premier ski-ed into trouble over his claim that sterling would replace the German mark as Europe 's No 1 currency under his Government .
12 A further inducement to non-intervention was the knowledge that Austria would cede the Italian province of Venetia , which she still held , providing France kept Italy neutral .
13 Music to the ears of teachers , parents and school governors , who 've mounted a series of demonstrations fearing that education would bear the full force of any cutbacks .
14 MGM 's Dynamite directed by Cecil B. de Mille was for Daugherty nothing more than a torrid melodrama of conventional silliness but he knew that audiences would love the tremendous cave-in of the coal-mine .
15 The contrary view is that television would damage the intimate character of debates and would encourage exhibitionism amongst those MPs seeking publicity .
16 The expectation that God would reward the righteous in this world ran parallel to the less attractive expectation that He would punish the unrighteous .
17 One extreme assumption was that demand would mirror the demographic decline , while at the other extreme there would only be a shallow decline in demand due to increases in both the proportions of school leavers wanting to advance their education and in the number of mature entrants .
18 But defence analysts say it 's unlikely that Iraq would acquire the new missile .
19 A former WEA tutor , Longland agreed that Hertfordshire would join the rural areas scheme in 1941 on the understanding that the District retained full providing powers throughout the county until an Article 11 university resident tutor was appointed .
20 Consequently it seemed likely in early May that Japan would avoid the mandatory trade sanctions which would follow if it were named as an unfair trader under the so-called " Super 301 " clause of the 1988 Trade Act [ see pp. 36925-26 ] .
21 It was arranged that Bill would do the initial flight in early February and that he would give Dick Hansen his ground schooling for the aircraft .
22 ‘ We hoped all along that Britain would lead the international commitment vigorously , rather than half-heartedly .
23 A significant amendment to the government 's original proposal was the 100-day time limit , included as a concession to radical nationalists , although Prunskiene expressed confidence that negotiations would resolve the key questions within that time .
24 But tonight her face seemed frozen into its gracious expression , like royalty in a traffic jam , and if she wished to herself that Hilda would make the odd concession so that civil conversation with her could be easier , nothing of this appeared in her manner .
25 The success of the party in the regional poll ensured that SWAPO would dominate the new National Council , the upper chamber of the National Assembly , comprising two members from each regional council , expected to be inaugurated in early 1993 .
26 Ben Ali said after Baccouche 's dismissal that Tunisia would pursue the economic structural adjustment plan recommended by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , while adapting it by increasing investment and employment .
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