Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 2 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
| 3 | ‘ That opinion was largely based on the fact that in Robin Cook , Labour would have boasted a senior Cabinet minister with good understanding and enthusiasm for racing . |
| 4 | Much of our thinking would seem to have a more-or-less pictorial character , after all . |
| 5 | On the communications front , Clinton 's programme would help fund a national information network linking homes , businesses , classrooms and libraries . |
| 6 | In a more localized example , a county planning department would need to consider a wide range of environmental , economic , political , social and spatial factors when deciding on a site for a public service utility such as a thermal electricity generating station . |
| 7 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 8 | The rule would seem to need a triple condition attached to it . |
| 9 | Price Waterhouse 's UK practice would have experienced a negative growth rate in fee income in the year to June 1992 , if it had not been for the firm 's corporate recovery arm . |
| 10 | It 's improbable that a male college would have achieved a similar effect with men or women . |
| 11 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 12 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |
| 13 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 14 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 15 | Central South would like to say a big thankyou to the thousands of people across the region who helped raise money . |
| 16 | A doctor would have a defence of therapeutic privilege , if disclosure would have posed a serious threat of psychological detriment to the patient . |
| 17 | He had waited until the sentry reached the tower at the end of his beat , knowing , after watching the man from the bailey , that the guard would pause to exchange a few words with another man-at-arms before they separated to retrace their steps . |
| 18 | Presenting the seventh development plan ( 1991-97 ) to the National Assembly on Nov. 19 , Masire said that he expected a slowdown in revenue in the coming period and that the private sector would have to play a greater role in diversifying the economy and reducing the dependence on mineral exports . |
| 19 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 20 | Letterman would like to see a first draft by the time I meet him in London . |
| 21 | The Warsaw pact would have to find a new home for its southern command , a small price . |
| 22 | Opponents said the plan would have had a variable impact , because of differences in the charges of landfill operators across the country . |
| 23 | The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy . |
| 24 | There , the team would attempt to have a narrower range of appeal but a greater oneness with the clients to whom they are trying to appeal . |
| 25 | Ideally the research team would have liked a randomised control experimental design whereby half the eligible people would have been allocated to the action group and the remainder to the control group on a random basis . |
| 26 | That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around . |
| 27 | The teacher would need to play a full role in the revision activity , monitoring and providing remedial help wherever necessary . |
| 28 | However , if it produced the right sort of pro-saving policies in the meantime , the hand-wringing would have served a useful purpose . |
| 29 | An additional requirement is that each industrial site would have to publish a yearly environmental statement which would be open to public scrutiny . |
| 30 | ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection . |