Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [Wh det] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House suggests that Exxon pay $1.2 billion damages together with a $500 million criminal fine and a civil penalty of $700 million , prompt payment of which would allow immediate implementation of environmental restoration projects . |
| 2 | So although the two models are observationally equivalent they are different in that they make different predictions about what would happen if the economic environment changed . |
| 3 | For all his socialist language he was really an old style Tory Radical , despising the ‘ system ’ yet not possessing a clear vision of what would replace it . |
| 4 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 5 | But until last night , there had been no clear line over what would happen in future years to the Government 's remaining holdings in these utilities . |
| 6 | In Dhondt 's view , Charles was the arch-squanderer of the fisc , his reign the critical period in the formation of territorial hereditary principalities in what would become France , for it was Charles who allowed the amassing of countships and once-royal estates by great regional magnates . |
| 7 | That is in stark contrast to what would happen if ever the Labour party came to power , with its plans to reduce our spending on equipment by many billions of pounds . |
| 8 | To do something concrete in this direction , Laing hit on the idea of forming what he wanted to call the One Per Cent Club , all the corporate members of which would pledge one per cent of their UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 9 | Khrushchev , who had not read it , was no great judge of what would live ; nor did he have any artistic education . |
| 10 | The degree of formality ranged from elaborate and schematic written documents to a simple mental rehearsal of what would happen next . |
| 11 | Received by the king and queen as she made her entrance , she curtsied deeply , and waited with bated breath for what would happen next . |
| 12 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 13 | Peter Watkins made his first feature , Privilege ( 1967 ) , for an American company , after his astonishing depiction of what would happen if a nuclear bomb fell on Kent , The War Game ( 1965 ) , had been banned by the BBC . |
| 14 | Captain Burrows may have been the head of the household but Mrs Burrows was definitely the heart.Joyce used to have terrible nightmares about what would happen to " all the little children " if God did not answer her prayers to keep mother " safe and well and strong " . |
| 15 | An obvious and good choice of audience is their classmates because the student " reporters " will have a good idea of what would interest them . |
| 16 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 17 | More than any other single individual , he created the ecclesiastical framework of what would become Germany . |
| 18 | This was the thorny question of what would happen eventually to the reactor 's residue of radioactive waste . |
| 19 | ‘ Two days ago we got a dire warning of what would happen under Labour . |
| 20 | It is beyond the scope of this book to enter deeply into these problems , a full understanding of which would demand of the reader a specialized knowledge of monetary economics . |
| 21 | He refused to believe that physical laws should not make a definite , unambiguous prediction for what would happen . |
| 22 | ‘ Laura had a very practical eye for what would sell and a very shrewd idea of pricing . |
| 23 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 24 | So , while the OAS plots raised or rather revived concerns about what would happen to the Fifth Republic after its founder 's disappearance , the re-emergence of parliamentary opposition revived concerns about a restoration of the régime des partis . |
| 25 | They 're based on simple qualitative calculus of what would happen if natural selection operated this way . |