Example sentences of "[adv] it would [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour . |
2 | Sargant , J. granted the injunction , even though in doing so it would involve considerable hardship on the part of the Council . |
3 | Thus it would appear that Judaism , however interpreted , has not very well served its followers despite its devout and sincere advocates . |
4 | I ca n't seem to find a copy of any report which was produced as a result of this survey , and I have no recollection of ever having received a copy , but presumably it would contain enough data for your new placement student to re-input . |
5 | Sometimes it would start first thing in the morning and go on until the early hours the next day , ’ she said . |
6 | If the monopolist were less interested in profits and more interested in maximising the firm 's sales revenue , then it would produce 100,000 units at a price of £5 . |
7 | I suspect that is now the view of the Liberal Democrats , so if Labour were to hang on trying to breathe life into the corpse while the Democrats tiptoed from the funeral parlour , then it would lose all legitimacy as a multi-party device . |
8 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
9 | Since the swells were still partially coming over the reef and the wind holding at 15–20 knots , we also set the CQR down once again and streamed out 120ft ( 36m ) of ⅜″ chain : at least it would provide additional weight on the bottom , and should we drag we would hear the chain scraping over the rocks . |
10 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
11 | These measures would involve society in exercising directive intelligence through some appropriate organ of action over many of the intricacies of private business , yet it would leave private initiative and enterprise unhindered ’ ( quoted Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 8 ) . |
12 | In fact , it is highly unlikely that the Government would use such a drastic step and ministers have told Mr Major that politically it would have terrible consequences . |