Example sentences of "[vb past] that it would [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alf Morris , the Labour Party 's spokesman for the disabled , promised that it would increase pensions above the rate of inflation . |
| 2 | Moreover , on July 28 Turkey announced that it would refuse permission for the use of Turkish bases to launch allied attacks against Iraq . |
| 3 | On Feb. 11 and 25 , Kuwait announced that it would allocate £660,000,000 ( $1,320 million ) towards UK war costs and F5,000 million ( $1,000 million ) towards French costs . |
| 4 | One high street retailer , Comet , announced that it would offer refunds to people who bought its own-brand and other manufacturers ' models which failed the Government tests announced on Monday . |
| 5 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |
| 6 | In a letter received by the Agence France-Presse news agency in Bonn on April 13 the extremist Red Army Faction ( RAF ) announced that it would cease attacks on leading economic and government figures in return for the release of some of the longest-serving RAF prisoners . |
| 7 | Argentina announced that it would resume relations with Pretoria before the end of the year . |
| 8 | On Sept. 14 Japan announced that it would provide $2,000 million to the frontline states , $600 million of which would be sent immediately . |
| 9 | At the same time the company announced that it would spend £225,000 on installing a special air filter in the factory . |
| 10 | The next day , Pakistan announced that it would reciprocate India 's gesture . |
| 11 | In March 1977 the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced that it would target asbestos as one of the 15 substances to receive priority attention under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 . |
| 12 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |
| 13 | He did not believe in the new property tax ; he believed that it would constitute theft from the old ladies living down the road , who would consequently vote against the Tories . |
| 14 | On the basis of Fields 's figures , if certain guidelines were adhered to rigorously , Branson estimated that it would cost Virgin £20m a year to run the airline , but the most they stood to lose by ‘ cutting and running ’ at any time was £2m . |
| 15 | In the emotionally charged atmosphere in which the hearings on the Freedom of Choice Bill began , its opponents ( most of whom were Republicans ) claimed that it would extend abortion rights beyond those already established by Roe v. Wade . |
| 16 | Manley claimed that it would provide training , marketing and financial advice to help " ambitious and disciplined young people " , but the benefits were expected to reach only a minority of the young unemployed . |
| 17 | Commentators claimed that it would help Sevan in his efforts to persuade hardline mujaheddin groups , in particular Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 's Hezb-i-Islami , to attend an " Afghan gathering " in Europe in April as a first step towards the establishment of an interim government . |
| 18 | On a visit to Hungary in November 1989 a delegation led by the Assembly 's president , Anders Bjorck , indicated that it would support applications from East European countries provided that they ( i ) adopted a democratic constitution ; ( ii ) held free , multiparty elections ; and ( iii ) reformed the penal code to conform with various European conventions . |
| 19 | ‘ We talked to Elizabeth , to Monty 's doctor and to Monty , and we all decided that it would kill Monty if we took him off the picture . |
| 20 | The visit , formally approved by the Japanese Cabinet on Aug. 25 , was fiercely opposed by right-wing nationalists who feared that it would involve pressure upon the Emperor to apologise to the Chinese people for Japan 's brutal military intervention in the country between 1931 and 1945 . |
| 21 | But the Supreme Allied Commander and the British Chiefs of Staff saw no military advantage in accepting this proposal , and also foresaw that it would create difficulties with the Soviet government , and therefore ignored it . |
| 22 | Outside the airport issue , the UK said that it would intensify consultation and co-operation over Hong Kong issues in the approach to 1997 . |
| 23 | The new party 's leader , journalist Mazhar Arif , said that it would ensure Iraq 's compliance with the 1972 Stockholm Declaration on environment and with " all principles for protecting the environment on both Arab and international levels " . |
| 24 | Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Abalkin , presenting the draft law , said that it would create conditions necessary for the transfer to a planned market economy . |
| 25 | In a statement issued on July 2 Bush said that it would remain US policy neither to confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons , but that " where we 've said we do n't have those weapons on board , we mean it " . |
| 26 | The Minister for Health , Brendan Howlin , welcoming the agreement on the new hospital , said that it would allay fears that the denominational ethos of the Adelaide would be lost in the new hospital . |
| 27 | In a report on the future of the Falklands , Lord Shackleton said that it would take £100 million or so for redevelopment . |
| 28 | On Jan. 30 China said that it would take part in the disarmament process initiated by Bush and Yeltsin only when the USA and Russia had reduced their nuclear arsenal to " a level matching China " . |
| 29 | He acknowledged the government 's awareness of the adverse social effects of the devaluation and said that it would take measures to alleviate them , including increasing wages in 1993 and compensating government employees who had lost their jobs as a result of the economic changes . |
| 30 | During February the Libyan government said that it would supply food , medicines and blankets to Iraq [ see also above ] and blood donation programmes for Iraq were oversubscribed in Morocco and Tunisia . |