Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He predicted that up to 2,000 schools would vote to join the 200 that had already chosen to run their own affairs — a development that could spell the end of council involvement in education . |
| 2 | It is time to turn from the past to the future and consider first what centrally regulated changes in the curriculum for schools would help to raise the overall standard of education of children , nation-wide . |
| 3 | However that avenue was never explored to its end ; and if it had been , one may doubt whether many readers would have grasped the total effect . |
| 4 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 5 | None of the modern , more sophisticated inductivists would wish to uphold the literal version of it . |
| 6 | Mr Edmonds said all companies would have to pay the same base rate so they could not complain of unfair competition . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone in her shoes would have done the same thing . ’ |
| 8 | In this respect the CNAA 's central concerns would have remained the same whatever policy governments formulated , so long as there were ‘ non-university ’ institutions seeking approval for their courses under the terms of the CNAA 's Charter . |
| 9 | The rounds would have extended the stage-set character of the architecture . |
| 10 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
| 11 | And the success of actions in these circumstances would serve to reduce the potential long-term threat associated with the event . |
| 12 | And chairman Bob Murray , who made an embarrassing personal apology for the semi-final ticket sale fiasco , when supporters queued all night in freezing conditions , pledged that the directors would try to find the fairest way to sell the tickets . |
| 13 | The word ‘ prostitution ’ is avoided ; its moral implications would have disturbed the economic tale , besides which there were girls in the audience . |
| 14 | Such ideas would seem to contradict the lateral persistence of facies about which so much fuss was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 15 | Finally , as Astbury comments , libraries would claim to contribute the critical component in the market , to provide the counterweight to bestsellerdom , and to contribute substantially to sustaining a wide range of serious books . |
| 16 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
| 17 | Turkey in the summer months is hot , however , and any more than four people on our boats would have made the Black Hole of Calcutta look like Earls Court . |
| 18 | Indeed , the whole exercise is circular , since ‘ most banks would wish to review the audited accounts before committing themselves to renewing on demand facilities ’ . |
| 19 | A different set of questions would have avoided the false start on the wrong track . |
| 20 | The outcry would undoubtedly be even greater if some form of compulsion were involved , such as placing the rural landscape under the same kind of protective legislation as already exists for ‘ listed ’ buildings so that farmers would have to notify the local planning authority of any intention to remove a protected landscape feature , such as a hedgerow or a section of heath . |
| 21 | Dyed-in-the-wool fabric-winged 65 hp-engined Ercoupe owners would appear to think the same about the metal Alon model in comparison to their own , if the Coupe Capers newsletter is anything to go by ! |
| 22 | Merrill Lynch found only a minority of companies would take a tough line — only one in seven firms would start to charge the current rate of interest and one in six would apply pressure on the employee to reduce the price of the old house in order to sell it . |
| 23 | There the chairs of the various committees would haggle to bring the total additional claims down to some acceptable consequent rate increase and to decide whose budget was to be trimmed most . |
| 24 | As dash mounted advertisements would have spoiled the general lines of the car , they were removed , but later replaced by an advertisement board against the staircase , just above the dash . |
| 25 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 26 | The effect of a term excluding the agents 's authority to make representations about the meaning or effect of the terms would appear to prevent the other contracting party claiming that the agent had any actual or apparent authority to make such statements . |
| 27 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 28 | I was under the impression that people who rented council houses would have to pay the new council tax in addition to their rents . |
| 29 | John Millington , principal training adviser for the Engineering Industry Training Board , says employers would like to see the present system streamlined , with fewer syllabuses and more emphasis on assessing a wider range of skills . |
| 30 | According to the version of the letter published in Panorama , owned by socialist media baron Silvio Berlusconi , Togliatti , who spent much of the Second World War in Moscow , had expressed the view that the deaths of the prisoners would help to turn the Italian people against fascism . |