Example sentences of "that it would [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion for a community treatment order was rejected by some , on the grounds that it would infringe civil liberties , there was insufficient research to justify this extra measure , the existing legislation provided a sufficient framework to give the necessary powers to deal with the problem , and changing the law might divert attention from the real need to provide resources to support an acceptable programme of community care . |
| 2 | Turning down a request to support a US$22,000,000 telecommunications project , the Norwegian government on Aug. 22 announced that it would refuse Malawian requests for economic development aid as a result of continuing allegations of human rights abuses [ for Norwegian attitude towards Namibia see p. 39038 ] . |
| 3 | A moment 's reflection will show that it would make private members more independent . |
| 4 | Acer Inc , Taipei , Taiwan says it is considering the possibility of cooperation with Nintendo Co Ltd in the electronic games industry and plans to submit a proposal to the Japanese company soon ; Acer denied a report that it would make electronic games on behalf of Nintendo . |
| 5 | Moldavia refused to hold the referendum on the grounds that it would worsen ethnic tensions in the republic . |
| 6 | The IBOA has serious difficulties with the proposed changes outlined in view of the fact that it would involve additional costs to our membership . |
| 7 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 8 | On Aug. 3 the European Commission announced that it would send 10,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to Somalia to support the work of the ICRC in Somalia . |
| 9 | Bessie Parkes more prudently replied that she thought it was " undeniable " that it would bring lower wages but " it was only fair to let women have a fair share in the competition " . |
| 10 | The Italian government had earlier announced that it would repatriate all Albanians who had not found jobs or obtained political refugee status by July 15 , the deadline for a new immigration law . |
| 11 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 12 | Petar Simic ( who died on April 10 , 1990 ) , rejecting a multiparty system for Yugoslavia on the grounds that it would exacerbate national divisions within the federation . |
| 13 | Although it was especially developed for babies at risk of allergy , many nutritionists believe that it would benefit all babies to follow a similar , gradual pattern of weaning , If your family is not allergy prone , you can adapt it to suit your needs , circumstances and baby . |
| 14 | The project has drawn heavy criticism from environmental and human rights activists , who warned that it would submerge some forests and erode others , disrupt fisheries , increase the risk of malaria and other insect-borne diseases , and fail to supply useful amounts of water to those areas of drought-stricken Gujarat most in need of it . |
| 15 | Indeed Welford Beaton , like many other Hollywood figures , thought that Vidor had carried ‘ realism just a little farther than the public will prove willing to follow ’ and he brilliantly argued that films had to give hope and to show a way forward , but he did conceded that The Crowd was one of the best films ever made and he hoped that it would inspire further ventures into realism . |
| 16 | The Rome-based World Food Programme ( WFP ) announced that it would allocate 31,000 tonnes of food for refugees , while France , Japan and Argentina undertook to provide aircraft to help evacuate refugees and distribute relief supplies . |
| 17 | As a contribution to the reconciliation process , the FMLN announced that it would release two combatants on March 16 to stand trial locally ( rather than in the USA , as the US government had previously insisted ) on charges of murdering two US advisers whose helicopter was shot down in January 1991 [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |
| 18 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 19 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 20 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 21 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 22 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 23 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 24 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 25 | The context of these submissions is the undertaking given by British Steel at the time of privatisation that it would consider commercial offers for the steel mill facilities if it no longer had a use for them . |
| 26 | Hollywood hoped that it would use immigrant directors for its own purposes but whatever the frustrations experienced by these foreigners the mere fact that they were working in the American film industry is a reminder that Hollywood was never as monolithic and stereotyped as its critics implied . |
| 27 | My colleagues thought it an impracticable plan and that it would put British manufacturers at a disadvantage — unless such measures could be introduced worldwide . |
| 28 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 29 | Can we oppose the checkerboard strategy on the ground that it would produce more instances of injustice than it would prevent ? |
| 30 | Formally the United States still maintained the myth that it would convert official holdings of dollars into gold at the old price of $35 , while informing other central banks that if they attempted to take advantage of this offer at all it would instantly be withdrawn . |