Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was used to heavier controls than this , but an hour 's practice would make all the difference . |
| 2 | That law would permit such an authority to rely upon presumed injury to its reputation because the defendant , who had accomplished a statement reflecting upon the reputation of the local authority , would have to prove the truth if he sought to justify the publication ; and , if he had commented adversely upon the conduct of the council , he would have to prove the substantial truth of the facts upon which the comment was based . |
| 3 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 4 | The Special Branch detective was asked whether he thought it probable that a more junior officer in the social welfare wing would call such a meeting and at it preside over ones of much more senior rank from the military wing . |
| 5 | The Khmers Rouges , who boycotted the final stages of the Pattaya talks , blocked moves to invite a small UN team to supervise the ceasefire , fearing that the SOC would use such a team to legitimize its own administration and possibly to avoid greater UN involvement in the organization of elections . |
| 6 | He asks : ‘ Would anyone say that the matrimonial consent would render this no crime ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've seen that girl ride straight at an obstacle would make many a man blanch . ’ |
| 8 | He said a skilled and ethical therapist would resist such an advance , knowing the harm it might cause the patient . |
| 9 | Firms interested in cleaning up their act were offered a special deal : Railside Revival would pay half the cost of materials and community programme workers would do the work for free . |
| 10 | It is nowadays quite unrealistic for a tenant even to attempt to secure a long letting of commercial property at a fixed rack rent ; and no well-advised landlord would grant such a lease . |
| 11 | With its own small quay , a landing stage and 180 ft of frontage on to Mylor Creek , near Falmouth , Otter Bridge would fulfil many a dream , even though the house itself is modern . |
| 12 | It was hard to credit that a British Cabinet would pursue such a policy but , then , there were plenty of hard men in the Government . |
| 13 | No analyst would make such a claim today , and the ‘ nationalization ’ thesis has had to be revised in the light of increased local variations in voting behaviour . |
| 14 | No Christian prince would do such a thing to innocent hostages ? |
| 15 | At a number of North-Eastern stations a porter would spend half an hour every Saturday or Sunday releasing pigeons from individual baskets , according to the instructions on the label . |
| 16 | He said that no pilot of Mr Hancock 's experience would attempt such a flight with the slightest hint of monsoon weather . |
| 17 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 18 | A manager 's persistent failure to pay over money to the artist would constitute such a breach , as would constant failure to make him or herself available to the artist , or the wilful neglect of the artist 's career . |
| 19 | However , there was no infringement of the rotated " L " grid as this was idea , it being almost inevitable that a spreadsheet program would use such a system . |
| 20 | Permanent family placements for children in care would provide such a compromise . |
| 21 | The possibility of such a merger has now been discounted by the Minister , who has given a solid commitment that no Government of his persuasion would attempt such a merger . |
| 22 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 23 | But' , he added , ‘ only a Left Government in this country would enter such an alliance with Russia … . ’ |
| 24 | He announced that if ‘ the House would sanction such a plan ’ , he would give notice in the Autumn for the preparation of an Act of Parliament to acquire the necessary property . |
| 25 | She was delighted when the story of Hank fell into her lap ; an interview with his mother would fill half a column nicely . |
| 26 | It sets out to achieve its objective of protection by promoting the kind of policies and practices which it believes would enable the rural environment to be utilised and developed for the good of society without destroying aesthetic and spiritual beauty , and by opposing other policies and practices which in its view would have such an effect . |
| 27 | The impossibility of shaking them in cross-examination would make such a reform grossly unfair to the media . |
| 28 | ( N.B. The dealer would do such a churn if he knew the client had no money from other sources . ) |