Example sentences of "[vb past] it would [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 2 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |
| 3 | The Halifax predicted a base rate cut ‘ within the next few weeks ’ , pledged it would pass lower costs on to borrowers without delay and forecast a surge in sales , with some return of house price inflation before the end of the year . |
| 4 | But county councillors claimed it would reduce parental choice by restricting the number of 11-year-old pupils the popular school can recruit . |
| 5 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 6 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Representatives of the 1,600 investors on Mr Outhwaite 's syndicate , who face losses of £305 million , welcomed the settlement , although spokesman Peter Nutting feared it would increase total losses . |
| 9 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 13 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 14 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 15 | and I thought it would cost ten pound . |
| 16 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To make up for a late start , the government this year announced it would make available £125 million of grants to push industry into the robot age . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Norway announced it would resume commercial whaling regardless of an international ban . |
| 22 | Council leader John Williams said he fully supported the scheme and hoped it would attract more tourists to the area . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Home Office yesterday broadly welcomed the report , but said it would consult interested parties before deciding on implementation . |
| 25 | The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They said it would create more traffic and be dangerous for children and old people . |
| 28 | While some local authorities welcomed part of the proposals , critics said it would create more losers than winners . |
| 29 | The Czechoslovak Environment Minister , Ivan Dejmal , said it would need substantial aid from the European Community and other foreign sources . |
| 30 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |