Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [vb infin] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 2 | Sir Bryan rejects all of the many arguments advanced by the Bar to the effect that the extension of audience rights would reduce rather than extend competition . |
| 3 | The superimposition of massive conventional forces on what should have been an atomic strategy , made no sense to Churchill , who appreciated that financial pressures would reduce rather than increase the number of divisions that Britain could contribute to Western European defence . |
| 4 | Opposition leaders accused the authorities of having unilaterally ceased consultations with them on the bill , and were also seeking an undertaking that the elections would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 5 | In his New Year address to the country on Jan. 1 , and at a meeting with opposition representatives on Jan. 8 , President Ramiz Alia had insisted that the elections would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 6 | But it was reasonable to believe that , as the international crisis mounted , the politicians would react differently if surrounded by a mass of mobilized and informed opinion than if left to their own devices . |
| 7 | What they still lack is what the Tories would fear rather than scorn : three easy sentences to ring the bell . |