Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extension of Soviet control over all of Korea would enhance the political and strategic position of the Soviet Union with respect to both China and Japan , and adversely affect the position of the US in those areas and throughout the Far East . |
| 2 | The success of the scheme depends absolutely on the co-operation of the public , and whether the good folk of Ulster would accept the extra work involved is open to question . |
| 3 | He mentioned that he hoped the Princess of Wales would open the refurbished clinic the following year . |
| 4 | But Dr Caldwell warned that ‘ failure to change the consumption patterns of relatively rich countries like Wales would break the fragile global consensus achieved at the recent Earth Summit , and lead to environmental disaster . |
| 5 | ‘ Failure to change the consumption patterns of relatively rich countries like Wales would break the fragile global consensus achieved at the recent Earth Summit , and lead to environmental disaster , ’ he warned . |
| 6 | In his case for a Palestinian state Mark Heller explains why , even with the recognition of Palestinian rights to self-determination , the right of return is wholly unacceptable to Israel : ‘ The return of the Palestinians … is impossible … because their introduction into Israel would derange the basic character of Israeli society and thus negate one of the primary purposes of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza . ’ |
| 7 | Whereas the German draft treaty on monetary union presented in February would postpone the Eurofed 's creation until 1997 [ see p. 38022 ] , the joint Genscher-Dumas statement proposed that the bank be established at the start of phase two , which members had agreed in October 1990 should start in January 1994 [ see p. 37783 ] . |
| 8 | Rudolf Seiters , the head of the Bonn Chancellery , announcing the move last night , said he expected that 11,000 East Germans currently in Prague would join the special trains heading west . |
| 9 | Will the Leader of the House confirm that although few people in Britain would expect the Prime Minister to match President Yeltsin bottle for bottle , they will find it odd that the Government insist on increasing or doubling Britain 's nuclear fire power when both the Russians and the Americans see good reasons for cutting theirs ? |
| 10 | But he feared a jaunt to Expo 92 in Seville would send the wrong message to the markets — and did not want the humiliation of returning early to deal with a sterling crisis . |
| 11 | Sometimes it plunged into the depths of the sea , indicating she was taking a command to the sea-gods from ZEUS ; at other times a blessing from HERA would take the multi-hued arch directly to the door of a worthy mortal family . |
| 12 | The long-term guarantee of a full and desirable simulcast service from Marcopolo in MAC would give the British electronics industry both the incentive to continue developing MAC technology and the live transmissions on which development depends . |
| 13 | Richard now admitted to himself that they might be lost after all but knew instinctively that saying so to Victoria would destroy the flattering confidence she placed in him . |