Example sentences of "[Wh det] would [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl Sagan , the distinguished astrophysicist , suggested in 1961 that Venus could be made habitable to earthlings if it were seeded with blue-green algae , which would split up the carbon and oxygen molecules to glean the carbon necessary for the glucose and carbohydrate diets they would need . |
| 2 | With Lytton Strachey 's Elizabeth and Essex as their source , they invented scenes which would open out the twin deltas of their story ; Elizabeth the monarch and Elizabeth the woman . |
| 3 | The three principal tasks of the proposed congress would be ( i ) to set out the broad principles within which the detailed constitutional work could be carried out ; ( ii ) to determine the make-up of the body which would draw up the constitution ; and ( iii ) to establish an interim government to oversee the transition process until a new government was in place . |
| 4 | He claimed that the Government 's vision of enabling authorities — those which would contract out the operation of services — was greatly exaggerated . |
| 5 | To add a new word into the dawg , the current structure would need to be searched both forwards and backwards to establish whether or not the required paths exist , which would slow down the building algorithm ( see section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 6 | The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State , which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 8 | , director of the SFO , said that the introduction of plea bargaining would be ‘ the single most important reform ’ which would speed up the disposal of cases . |
| 9 | Should the prevailing interest rate be greater than Oi l , there would be an excess supply of money ( or excess demand for bonds ) which would push up the price of bonds and push down interest rates , back towards the equilibrium . |