Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | — that in Newham each such client cost £92 a week less in the community , and in Ipswich £108 less ( even with Home Support Project input ) than in an institution , assuming that two-thirds of the clients would have entered a hospital and one-third residential accommodation ( see Table 3.5 ) . |
2 | After Alan Duff , very few teachers ' books would have stood a chance . ’ |
3 | That none of this is within the competence of animals would seem to influence a preference for them as laboratory subjects . |
4 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
5 | Sensible parents would have chosen a hill station near us , rented a house , and sent us every year to the same school . |
6 | To stop " false tourism " , visitors from certain countries would have to pay a deposit on entering France and to undergo an AIDS test . |
7 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
8 | The Independent of April 27 quoted the Minister of State as saying that the Islamic Law bills would seek to prevent a woman becoming Prime Minister . |
9 | A slash from Siban 's talons would have inflicted a wound which would have taken weeks to heal . |
10 | ‘ Who in their right senses would want to take a babby in arms on a journey like that ? ’ |
11 | Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt . |
12 | Mowbray was suspended for the final game when victory against Hibs would have guaranteed a passport into Europe . |
13 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
14 | Although the UK figures would have shown a fall in income without the rapid increase in corporate recovery work ( up 31% to £40.1m ) , growth in the rest of Europe was stronger in the traditional areas of audit and business advisory services ( up 12% to £274m ) and tax consultancy ( up 8% to £93m ) . |
15 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
16 | We believed , however , that many people who entered the competition from further distances would wish to plan a weekend break around the show . |
17 | I do , however , respectfully agree with Lord Griffiths that certiorari would go to quash a decision of the visitor which amounted to an abuse of his power . |
18 | Military planners have also developed a strategy for nuclear defence in which attacking missiles would have to run a gauntlet of several ‘ layers ’ of defence . |
19 | But unless anyone takes the trouble to ascertain first what persons would care to attend a meeting , I do n't imagine that one could usefully be called . |
20 | There is no need to go beyond that , although in many circumstances such persons would have had a duty , either legal or moral . |
21 | Occasionally the partners would have to make a contribution to the settlement , but never such as to seriously damage their personal wealth . |
22 | It is unlikely that these techniques would have required a check in the action . |
23 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
24 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
25 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
26 | It 's a shameful fact , but here it is : if I were squashed under a bus tomorrow , my relations would have to hold a seance to find out how I wanted to settle my affairs . |
27 | Contracts may be developed with hospitals further afield , but few patients would choose to enter a hospital far from home . |
28 | Along with the products would have gone a lot more of the people than USL cut loose right before it got bought . |
29 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
30 | The platter of assorted vegetables would have delighted a vegan . |