Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the status of the Newhart decision , it is clear that it will be confined to very narrow limits since to allow any such action would interfere with the primary duties of the receiver to protect the interests of the security holder . |
| 2 | It means that this type of analysis lights upon a particular aspect of social life and social change ( and an aspect of life with which Chicagoans were immediately concerned in the 1920s ) without attending to what Castells or a structuralist Marxist would see as the principal underlying processes affecting people 's lives , especially economic processes and those related to the social relations of production . |
| 3 | If so , they would correspond to the native serf labourers of Persian Asia Minor , and Bakal and Alazeir would correspond to the far fewer privileged Anatolians who achieved honour and office under the Achaemenid satraps . ) |
| 4 | The debate on these options in Whitehall was one-sided , because the RAF wanted to maintain its hold on the deterrent and the Navy was still uncertain about what effect a take-over bid would have on the future size and shape of the Fleet . |
| 5 | Leader of the research team Professor Raj Bhopal from Newcastle University said the study would look at the hidden features of deprivation , and people 's lifestyles , and also look at the environment , particularly air pollution . |
| 6 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 7 | They waited through that day in the cave , trusting that Miss Fergusson 's condition would improve by the next morning . |
| 8 | Each chapter would draw on the recent ‘ UK Environment ’ statistical report and add it where possible and appropriate . |
| 9 | The place where Aldhelm 's body was found is within close woodland , untended , on a narrow path , where the only light would come from the open sky above the track . |
| 10 | A heavyweight machine to cut the hard rock would sink in the soft sections , and a lightweight machine could n't cut through the hard rock sections . |
| 11 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 12 | The fundamental stress on proper moral order as the basis of a healthy society could be dangerously two-edged ; it could plausibly be turned against the reformers by the assertion that abolition and emancipation would cut off the civilising influence of Europeans on Africans and result in social and political upheaval in the colonies . |
| 13 | The problem would then arise for those who had advocated the continuation of this legislation that neither the employer nor the employee nor the Revenue would benefit from the lesser use of these services . |
| 14 | A great deal would depend on the reforming zeal and liberal spirit of the man who became Home Secretary . |
| 15 | Unsure of how much the President would remember of the previous day , Trent reintroduced himself . |
| 16 | John Young , a larger-than-life figure , had automatically assumed the Princess would sit in the Royal Box , and had sold tickets in the belief that everyone in the theatre would have a view of the Princess . |
| 17 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 18 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 19 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 20 | At later real times , the universe would expand like the chaotic inflationary model proposed by Linde ( but one would not now have to assume that the universe was created somehow in the right sort of state ) . |
| 21 | That is , the universe would develop in the same way as its mirror image if , in addition , every particle was swapped with its antiparticle ! |
| 22 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 23 | Being , as I think , unattached , the statue was , prima facie , not a fixture , but even if it were attached , the application of the second test would lead to the same conclusion . |
| 24 | At night the child would sleep in the same room as Rachaela , that was all . |
| 25 | How the Scottish paragliders imagined this sport would adapt to the arctic , savage , gale-torn mountains of home is anybody 's guess , but they appear to be quite happy flapping around in the rain before plummeting out of the sky like Icarus and skidding to an inelegant halt face first in small lochans . |
| 26 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 27 | Moreover , it was his heart 's desire that the cause of the Gospel would flourish throughout the whole country and even beyond . |
| 28 | Ideally , the cut from medium shot to close-up would come during the downward movement of the hand , but this degree of editing precision is often difficult for video . |
| 29 | I asked if his telephone would work at the next big stop which came under the heading of serious to me . |
| 30 | This reform would work in the following way . |