Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pena hoped that a new aviation agreement could be reached this year between the US and the UK and added that the US would vigorously defend the right of its carriers abroad . |
| 2 | The system would mostly operate a service of at least half-hourly frequency , but the Twotowns North line would incorporate the existing BR express service between Shrewsbury and Wellington with Metro stopping trains at the alternate half-hour . |
| 3 | ( 12 ) Para 33 of Chapter 2 of Section 5 of the Yellow Book provides that , where an increase of authorised share capital of a listed company is proposed and 10 per cent or more of the voting capital will remain unissued , the circular accompanying the notice of meeting must state that no issue will be made which would effectively alter the control of the company without prior approval of its shareholders in general meeting . |
| 4 | In the ensuing weeks the two parties negotiated an agreement on a transitional federal coalition which would effectively oversee the dismantling of the Czechoslovak state . |
| 5 | Following a speech by Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , to barristers this month , there have been fears that senior judges involved in drawing up rules would effectively block the use of the new rights in practice , by insisting that preparation of some cases and their presentation in court should be handled by different people . |
| 6 | Conservative Central Office has been inundated with jittery reports from regional Tory organisers , but is banking on driving home the message to a receptive audience that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would effectively open the door of Downing Street to Mr Kinnock . |
| 7 | A half-speed recorder would effectively halve the rate of tax that consumers would pay , should a levy be introduced . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , when a minister with a firm grip on government patronage was involved , a refusal to offer such a return would effectively deprive the member of parliament of further opportunities to aid his own constituents . |
| 9 | And for the once mighty Dublin side , defeat would effectively signal the end of what has been a bitterly disappointing and frustrating season . |
| 10 | But I do not consider it reasonable to expect the theist to prove the existence of God , something that would effectively remove the element of trust which I have also highlighted . |
| 11 | This constraint would effectively limit the amount of vehicles that a firm could service . |
| 12 | No ordinary man , he ; with a good education behind him , coupled with a strong religious fervour , he would eventually achieve a degree of fame by compiling a treatise on the botany of North America , called Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus . |
| 13 | Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on . |
| 14 | The small community at Grasmere would be the first to experience ‘ the milder day ’ which would eventually include the whole of mankind . |
| 15 | And although it was always the hope that the county would continue to fund the project , and that every secondary school would eventually receive a grant of one sort or another , uncertainty meant that no guarantee could be given to disappointed schools as to their inclusion in a subsequent wave . |
| 16 | An intricate watering system would eventually replace the army of Baluchistan gardeners who tended not only the road islands but the roundabouts and the young plantations of trees struggling for life under the condemnation of the sun . |
| 17 | At the time , Comdisco was busy taking advantage of IBM 's 3090-E systems , which would eventually become the foundation of today 's ESA architecture base . |
| 18 | Few brewers realised that the sheer proliferation of products , rather than consumer demand , was fuelling growth and that this short-sighted gallop would eventually limit the size of the market . |
| 19 | This is highly price sensitive information from which a conglomerate could make a profit or avoid a loss , but it would rarely constitute a breach of the the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 . |
| 20 | At the same time , he reckons , in the pubs they keep , the big companies would rather sell the product of a small brewery like Belhaven than that of a major competitor . |
| 21 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 22 | Very , very soon the secret of life would be revealed , and Ruth would rather know the secret of death . |
| 23 | In fact women are clearly already making this kind of calculation for themselves and many do decide they would rather run the gauntlet of contraceptive side effects than risk a pregnancy and cope with the consequences . |
| 24 | 3.6 To the extent that the Tenant has exclusive possession of the Premises at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant shall hold the same as Tenant at will of the Landlord The tenant may wish to delete this clause despite a footnote to the precedent to the effect that any purported determination of the tenancy at will by the landlord ( other than where provided for in clause 5 ) would presumably contribute a breach of contract , ie for withdrawing the authority granted by clause 3.5 . |
| 25 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 26 | Although they privately felt that they themselves would properly decide the fate of the territories , even the most conservative mayors began to acknowledge the PLO . |
| 27 | Were he equipped with nothing but his hereditary instincts , unaffected by the influence of the centuries of the civilising process , it is very probable that he would instinctively distribute the allocation of his abilities first to the ensurance of his own personal well-being , then to the provision of a home of some sort , next to the care of his mate , then to his children and finally to the community in which he exists . |
| 28 | And in many abolitionist minds this would ultimately lead to emancipation ; slaves would not only gradually become more able to live in freedom but better conditions would so enhance the population of labourers in the West Indies that it would be cheaper to employ workers on a waged basis than as slaves . |
| 29 | But even if this were true , it would only alter the degree of the problem , as the rocks on the west coast of Scotland are almost entirely hard and the cutting of beaches in narrow straits must indicate that waves of considerable power have operated there . |
| 30 | Clever compositional tricks would only trap a fraction of the space and diminish the distance . |