Example sentences of "[subord] it would [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Transfer may be justified in the child 's interests , for example , where it would enable the case to be heard in a court closer to the child 's home .
2 Although it would break the link between advanced and non-advanced further education , it would make it possible to ‘ develop a single coherent function for higher education outside the universities ’ .
3 If the property given was excluded property then although it would reduce the value of the estate of Mr X that gift is ignored and the reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X caused by the gift of excluded property is not taken into account .
4 And I just wondered if it would ease the discussion if we omitted that particular corridor ?
5 Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign .
6 And in any case I am so angry — I have never been so angry ! — I am prepared to commit suicide if it would mean the end of your career !
7 These are rather like undated gilts in that they are perpetual instruments , but interest can be waived or reduced if it would cause the issuer to breach capital adequacy requirements .
8 Harvard dealers were granted the same perk and for that reason kept it concealed from clients , even if it would swing the sale .
9 In order to establish the appropriate conditioned responses ( or expectancies ) during the first stage of training , the subjects would have to attend to and discriminate those features that distinguish A from C and those that distinguish B from C. Any plausible mechanism capable of allowing a subject to do this would also endow the subject with an enhanced ability to discriminate between A and B because it would involve the animal in coming to respond to the distinctive features of each of the three stimuli .
10 He accepted that the introduction of a night sleeper was something which could n't be contemplated in their present accommodation because it would involve the carer sleeping in the same room as the plaintiff .
11 Mr Heseltine had accepted the Monopolies and Mergers Commission recommendation that the merger should not be allowed , because it would give the board more than a 50 per cent share of the market .
12 The CAJEC document , issued last November ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 11 ) proposed the rotation of audit partners , not only because it would help avoid situations that could lead outsiders to question the auditor 's objectivity , but also because it would give the client the benefit of a fresh , objective scrutiny and new ideas without losing the benefit of the knowledge of the business that the audit firm had already acquired .
13 Gascoigne suspected that MacArthur wanted a peace conference to take place because it would convey the impression of activity to the Japanese but that MacArthur did not necessarily desire a treaty to emerge from it .
14 Because it would make the table bend .
15 Not just because it would ruin the trust that my relationship is built on and that I so much believe in , but because being unfaithful would require me to be the kind of woman I choose not to be .
16 Geography was important because it would help the evolutionist to explain how populations were able to migrate and adapt to new locations .
17 he 's recommended to her that instead of making the third bedroom bigger , to make four bedrooms because it would increase the value of the house more .
18 but he recommended to her to actually make it into a fourth bedroom because it would increase the value of the house
19 Mike Barlow , who has a tourist business in Kyleakin , opposes the bridge because it would spoil the island 's ‘ magic ’ .
20 Many scientists also favoured the idea of pooling biotechnology patents because it would reduce the possibility of secrecy and the delay of publication .
21 I would think that 's out because it would destroy the value of the house er that , that has got to be sold some time .
22 C. , 1976 ) the court indicated that while it would determine the existence and the scope of the prerogative power , it would not review the propriety or adequacy of the grounds on which it had been exercised .
23 Indeed the latter might be preferable , since it would leave the class enemy clearly in view .
24 The latter was a heavy weapon which has never been used , since it would involve the removal of the whole Commission if an Assembly vote of no confidence gained a two-thirds majority .
25 It would be surprising , Mr. Beloff submitted , if Parliament had given the Bank of England the right to issue notices calling for the immediate production of documents which ipso facto overrode court orders , and constitutionally anomalous to allow an executive order to override a judicial order , since it would deny the court an opportunity to balance competing interests ; the court should be slow to conclude that it was excluded from this arena .
26 I wanted to know whether it would affect the pH of my soil .
27 There are also worries about the impartiality of the editorial control over what is actually transmitted and whether it would elevate the stature of frontbench performers and depress that of backbenchers even further .
28 As the proposed grant for 93–94 from Christian Aid was so large , at £50,000 , the Committee was asked to consider the proposal in advance , and give some now indication of whether it would support the request when it came to committee for approval next year .
29 Erm the inertial measurement unit which is er a rather critical piece of equipment er in er a system of this nature initially did not perform to the the full level of requirement that that we we desire so you know , some further development had to be done on that before it would match the system .
30 Treaty in as much as it would prevent the exercise of the right of establishment on a secondary basis .
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