Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Increasingly people will tell you it is Monday , and most diaries and calendars would confirm that assumption by relegating Saturday and Sunday to the ‘ weekend ’ .
2 Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " .
3 But it was too early to say whether fans would sway any decision on his future .
4 Labour would have 49 MPs plus ten others ; the Conservatives 11 MPs plus 28 others ; the SNP would have three MPs plus 29 others while the Lib Dems would have nine MPs plus 11 others .
5 Seventy-eight per cent agreed with the statement ‘ more discipline in schools would mean fewer problems with young people ’ .
6 Schools would require substantial support in the training of facilitators and in the provision of school based inservice as well as on-going support and assistance throughout the process .
7 The fundamental difficulty , nevertheless , was that contemporaries had not ‘ foreseen … that the balance of payments on current account and the change in the gold and dollar reserves would bear little relationship to one another [ Cairncross , 1985 , 79 ] ; in particular there was a heavy outflow of capital to the sterling area .
8 But while these voices of dissent grew louder and louder , and began to breed that stony-faced aspect about which Lowe later remarked , the New Zealand rugby public were being swept along by the manufactured , hyped-up waves generated by the hucksters and the lackeys determined that their clients would get full return for spending their sponsorship and advertising dollars .
9 At the other extreme , modern , mechanized methods would make economic nonsense on a smallholding .
10 Here , a computer-assisted technique known as Principal Components Analysis ( Horvath 1985 : 53 ) was used to examine the hypothesis that groups of speakers would show certain similarities in their linguistic behaviour .
11 Not many candidates would attempt this frankness in the examination room , but they often do suppose that an accurate answer directed to the very words of the question is all that is required .
12 In a primitive world where some creatures had no eyes at all and others had lensless eyes , the ones with lensless eyes would have all sorts of advantages .
13 Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners .
14 ‘ There are no winners or losers , ’ Mr Levy said , adding that Mr Shamir promised that Mr Levy 's supporters would get key jobs in parliament , party committees , and the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency , which arranges migration to Israel .
15 This was widely regarded as a triumph for Levi , who received a guarantee that he would retain his present Cabinet position in any future Likud-led government , and a written assurance that his supporters would receive increased representation within Likud institutions , the government , Knesset ( parliament ) committees and the Jewish Agency .
16 The assembled kids would have more confidence in him if they continued to believe him a cop , rather that just the old man of one of their number chancing his arm .
17 EACH Christmas the Leazes End songsters would add seasonal flavour with ‘ Noel , Noel , Noel , Noel , Davies is king of Newcastle . ’
18 A significant laterality effect for " different " trials would suggest broader tuning of orientation detectors in one cerebral hemisphere than in the other .
19 Nor is it likely that such thwarted parents would make ideal parents for a mentally handicapped child .
20 When children were expected to be unquestioningly compliant , parents would suppress undesirable behaviour without discussing the whys and wherefores of their prohibitions .
21 Although there were already many activities concerned with cost and financial control , these functions would assume greater importance in the future , inferring that the expertise in Colleges should be developed or enhanced , and officers nominated to assume new responsibilities .
22 If they would not or could not , at the request of a Government sympathetic to them and their aspirations , give sufficient support to the economic policy advocated by that Government in the general interest , it could not with confidence be supposed that trade union representatives on the boards of companies would give sufficient support to the policies of those companies .
23 County transport officials also feared that bus companies would face huge bills within the next five years as stock had to be replaced .
24 Financial institutions , he feels , would be deserted by their private clients while companies would lose international work on sheer emotional grounds .
25 Surplus countries would experience inflationary pressures from an inflow of gold which would increase their demand for imports and make their exports less competitive .
26 The member countries would establish those aspects of foreign policy which were ripe for " common action " , and policy decisions on these aspects could thereafter be made by qualified majority voting .
27 All three countries would like smaller armies with better weapons , manned more by professionals and less by conscripts .
28 The more extreme Euro-pessimists would view any attempt at expanding demand to reduce unemployment as being necessarily inflationary .
29 Central computer recording of transactions would enable automatic screening for multiple and unjustified claims .
30 The level of noise pollution from one of the larger aerogenerators which during high winds would achieve supersonic speeds at the end of the blade would certainly be of formidable proportions .
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