Example sentences of "[vb past] it would [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But county councillors claimed it would reduce parental choice by restricting the number of 11-year-old pupils the popular school can recruit . |
| 2 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 3 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 4 | This option was , however , never used without the agreement of the chairmen , and then only on those rare occasions when they felt it would help secure acceptance of unpopular measures by their colleagues and the broader public . |
| 5 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |
| 7 | He knew it would take great care and he knew also — inadmissible , subversive thought — that what he really wanted was to live with her here , securely , for the rest of his life : that was the earthly promise of the revelation at Hause Point . |
| 8 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 9 | and I thought it would cost ten pound . |
| 10 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
| 11 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 12 | When , a year ago , IBM announced it would support other networking protocols alongside its proprietary Systems Network Architecture ( CI No 1,901 ) there were some sceptics in the audience . |
| 13 | Reflecting the rapid spread of AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region , the Malaysian government in September 1989 announced it would begin random blood testing of Malaysian nationals returning from Thailand ( where the number of HIV-infected people was the highest in the region ) . |
| 14 | Norway announced it would resume commercial whaling regardless of an international ban . |
| 15 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 16 | Researchers at Edinburgh University 's Centre for Speech Technology yesterday announced the development of software to convert text into speech electronically in all nine official European Community languages , and said it would create quality-controlled pronunciation dictionaries of all Community city , town , street , family and product names in machine-readable form . |
| 17 | They said it would create more traffic and be dangerous for children and old people . |
| 18 | The Czechoslovak Environment Minister , Ivan Dejmal , said it would need substantial aid from the European Community and other foreign sources . |
| 19 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
| 20 | DEC also said it would provide R4000-based daughter cards to upgrade existing R3000 DECstations and DECsystems , but would give no indication as to whether it would proceed with MIPS beyond the R4000 , or concentrate on Alpha . |
| 21 | Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp say they will step up their production of 4M-bit memory chips shortly in response to recovery in the US market : Hitachi intends to boost monthly output by July to 8m from the current 7.5m and as it is near capacity will have to get more of them from Goldstar Co ; Toshiba said it would raise monthly output to between 6m and 7m by September from the 5m or so it is doing right now . |