Example sentences of "it would [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also emphasises the ethics : ‘ Certainly if anyone were to advocate placing whale genes or elephant growth hormone genes into the genetic code of a human embryo , so that it would grow to sexual maturity at age six , and twice as tall … |
| 2 | I was deeply disturbed by this and quite convinced that it would lead to serious trouble . |
| 3 | On the one hand the approach I am proposing would lead the learners to realize ( in the sense of actualize ) grammatical potential in contexts of use , that is to say that it would lead to effective behaviour . |
| 4 | Bush strongly backed the measure , passed by Congress on June 13 , despite objections from some business groups that it would lead to numerous law suits . |
| 5 | Having initially announced that it would continue with commercial whaling in defiance of an international moratorium , the North Norwegian Minke Whalers Association has called off its hunt . |
| 6 | Subsequently the government ‘ capped ’ the amount of money it would pay in private care fees . |
| 7 | Yeltsin , however , refused to suspend the decree during the investigation , and warned that any attempt by Gorbachev to countermand it would result in renewed antagonism . |
| 8 | In any case if I had any spare money it would go on clerical assistance . |
| 9 | " It would depend on nervous strain or other excitement , of course , but from the look of things this strikes me as a fairly cool job . |
| 10 | It would restore to public control ownership of the water authorities , the electricity grid and British Telecom . |
| 11 | Compulsory retirement , PEP considered , would be a political impossibility since it would interfere with individual liberty , not to speak of raising the anomaly of those in occupations with no statutory upper age-limit , such as judges . |
| 12 | Were such a test to be adopted in future , it would reintroduce into British obscenity law a wholly subjective assessment of taste and decency with respect to works of art and public communications , and it would do so by amending an Act which was designed to focus solely on the question of harm . |
| 13 | Neville , however , pressed on him the support in the country that he would bring to such an administration and the effect it would have in restoring confidence . |
| 14 | Neville , however , pressed on him the support in the country that he would bring to such an administration , and the effect it would have in restoring confidence . |
| 15 | By reducing the output of chemicals society would save more in social cost than it would lose in social benefit . |
| 16 | Firstly it would demonstrate to prospective freelance writers the type of material required . |
| 17 | In short , if you crept up behind a chameleon and shouted ‘ boo ’ it would respond by changing colour but not necessarily to the colour of its surroundings . |
| 18 | It would provide for extra authority and resources for electoral returning officers . |
| 19 | Producing another film would add more to social benefit than it would add to social cost . |
| 20 | Spare Rib , May 1977 , reported that at the national Women 's Liberation conference , the Fifth Demand group ( for Financial and Legal Independence ) opposed the demand that ‘ every individual person , whether in or out of employment , should receive a Guaranteed Minimum Income as of right ’ on the grounds that ‘ it would amount to implicit support for the Wages for Housework Campaign ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 21 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |
| 22 | He did n't really believe that it would help for steady running . |
| 23 | It would deal with wasteful prescribing and wide variations in performance to be found between one hospital and another , which could not be put down simply to lack of resources , he said . |
| 24 | It would work for national reconciliation " including those Cambodians who used to work with all categories of the Vietnamese aggressors " . |
| 25 | And so the issue the discussion has focused on , from where I 'm sitting , seems to have focused on is , you know can one afford to let loose a strategic policy and could such a policy be written in a way that it would work for inward investment attraction without being a a Trojan horse as you know letting in a lot of other nasty things . |
| 26 | The issues to be considered by the inquiry will include whether the scheme is needed at all , what its visual impact would be , health and safety matters , its affect on local amenities , its impact on agriculture , road transport , aviation , radio and TV reception , whether it would create extra noise , and whether it would conflict with existing planning policies . |
| 27 | It would focus on specific knowledge or skills ; the test questions would need to be carefully designed to reveal any lack of understanding which may exist . |
| 28 | Initially , it would focus on separating plutonium from spent fuel as a service to about 125 research reactors , most of them in developing countries . |