Example sentences of "[Wh det] would [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should it reveal areas which would fail to meet the standard , then alternative sets of options for emission control can be considered . |
| 2 | Surely someone can meaningfully say ‘ I ought to do this , because I promised , even though better consequences would ensue from my doing something else which would involve breaking the promise . ’ |
| 3 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 4 | This larger group would then choose an observer group of given countries to perform a peace-keeping role in Afghanistan , which would involve defusing the insurgency and supervising general elections . |
| 5 | Then we would prepare breakfast , which would mean fetching the water and collecting wood for the fire , which the men usually did , while two women would be in charge of making the tortillas . |
| 6 | In all cases where substituted service is effected , the creditor must have taken all those steps which would suffice to justify the court making an order for substituted service of a petition ( see Section 10 below ) . |
| 7 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 8 | Chairman Bill Dixon ( Lab ) , said he was delighted to be involved in a scheme which would help ease the town 's critical housing shortage . |
| 9 | In March 1991 , the Regional Council 's Planning and Development Committee cleared for public consultation a range of Discussion Papers which would help to describe the issues and establish an agenda for consultation . |
| 10 | After Katharine had experienced some problems with the half-pass , Jennie suggested that Katharine try some travers , which would help to improve the half-pass . |
| 11 | Negotiations are still underway between the National Rivers Authority and the Harwich Haven Authority ( HHA ) for a dredging project which would help protect The Naze . |
| 12 | On March 13 the EC Commission approved structural assistance for the five eastern Länder during 1991-93 worth 3,000 million European currency units ( approximately US$3,900 million ) , which would help modernize the infrastructure and industry and reduce environmental damage . |
| 13 | ‘ Would like to develop training areas which would help offset the problems of lack of mobility of staff … regretfully none of our posts are supernumerary and hence the problems of removing staff from their work to attend training is a real difficulty ’ … |
| 14 | A compromise agreement reached on Jan. 8 , negotiated under the auspices of the special mission of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , which would have paved the way for the return from exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , was later rejected by military and parliamentary leaders in Haiti , leaving the country 's political crisis unresolved . |
| 15 | was given leave by an overwhelming majority of the House of Commons ( 228 votes to 17 ) to introduce a Bill which would have imposed a requirement of reasonableness where a mistaken belief in consent was alleged . |
| 16 | Guillaume was also disturbed by Modi 's unpredictable and unbusinesslike behaviour : ‘ the mere idea of asking him for a signature , which would have legalized a relationship , seemed ridiculous to me ’ . |
| 17 | Both chambers of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly — the Chamber of the People and the Chamber of Nations — rejected a constitutional reform bill on Oct. 1 which would have legalized the ending of the Federation [ see p. 39105 ] . |
| 18 | The collapse in confidence was prompted by proposals by the US Senate to limit credit card borrowing [ see also p. 38566 ] , a move which would have damaged the revival of retail markets ; markets calmed , however , following Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady " s dismissal of the idea , and the index ended the month 6 per cent down from the 3,075 level recorded at the end of October . |
| 19 | Last year a court blocked government plans to build a road tunnel through the Aspe valley , which would have threatened the bears ' habitat [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 20 | The DTI said it wanted to avoid the risk of a ‘ disorderly collapse ’ which would have threatened the savings of those people who had already put money into the funds . |
| 21 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 22 | His proposed referendum law , which would have given the president the right to call a referendum either on his own initiative or in response to a significant demand from voters in both Czech and Slovak republics , was also defeated . |
| 23 | Among the more important objects is a shabti-figure , still in the Amherst Collection , which would have represented the deceased in the underworld . |
| 24 | However , for the purposes of the relevant part of the lbw law , the wicket is actually about 37 cm wide — over 38% wider — as you should add almost the total diameter of the ball ( over 7 cm wide to both the off and leg stumps to allow for a ball which would have flicked the stumps — thus fulfilling the criterion of hitting the wicket . |
| 25 | A compromise was put forward by the General , Municipal and Boilermakers union which would have created a register of individual union supporters . |
| 26 | A slightly different approach diagnoses the Gettier counter-examples as arising because there are some truths which would have destroyed the believer 's justification had he believed them ( cf. |
| 27 | The MMC rejected GEC 's claim that the merger would have created a company which would have sustained the UK 's position in world markets into the next century , and implied that GEC should rely more on organic growth ( ie internal growth ) than on growth by acquisitions . |
| 28 | However , it seems unlikely that the British parent did not back Mr Nathan 's proposal , which would have secured a price for Imigran similar to that in Britain . |
| 29 | The same day it transpired that an additional factor had been the judge 's decision to dismiss " public interest immunity " certificates which had been signed by four senior ministers and which would have prevented the disclosure of certain information about the case . |
| 30 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton disaster . |