Example sentences of "would [verb] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you only read , say , the Independent and listen to Radio 4 ( and there are some people who do ) , you would think the entire British nation agreed that the National Health Service was Britain 's finest achievement ; was indeed a sacred trust that should not be tampered with in any way , but merely fed with the choicest morsels of public spending and worshipped . |
| 2 | The specialist options would cover the following occupational areas . |
| 3 | This would affect the estimated 26,000,000 Russians in other Soviet and former Soviet republics by extending rights to those who had not taken local citizenship . |
| 4 | My main concern is how much of the network would become ‘ prohibited ’ ; if it 's more than a fraction , I would prefer the present undefined arrangements . |
| 5 | The dollar dropped to a near-record low against the yen yesterday , and there was dollar selling in Europe blamed on concern new taxes would slow the American economic recovery . |
| 6 | Without specifying whether the state would grant the Roman Catholic Church legal recognition , Salinas undertook to promote it to a " new legal position " . |
| 7 | Proportional representation in Parliament might translate into disproportionate power in government in a way that would make the established first-past-the-post inequalities look rather more fair than is often seen to be the case . |
| 8 | May we have a debate on junk mail as soon as possible , to discuss a mailshot sent to many of my constituents by an organisation that is partly funded by Maxwell money which is so full of falsehoods that it would make the average time-share salesman blush ; which redefines the term ’ junk mail ’ and peddles dodgy , old-fashioned and out-of-date remedies which have been banned in most countries and which have passed their sell-by date ; and which bears the signature of an obscure Welsh politician , best known for losing his rag with Zimbabwean soldiers and for nutting people in public lavatories ? |
| 9 | Later , over their wine at the Franz Joseph , he would make the odd tactful comment to Busacher . |
| 10 | Then , Sabraxis would make the individual concerned practise with her five hours a day for a week . |
| 11 | It is independent of the quality process but , in retrospect , would make the ideal first step in instituting a management system which is also a quality system . |
| 12 | That would explain the familiar juvenilian ring of several passages in the first two acts . |
| 13 | Mr Clinton has spoken out firmly on China 's poor human rights record in the past and has speculated about removing its Most Favoured Nation status which would cripple the developing southern part of the country . |
| 14 | Selective internment , he said , would free the Roman Catholic people of the Falls from the stranglehold of terrorism . |
| 15 | In Europe events were dominated by the question of greater integration , on which the UK generally favoured a loose arrangement which would include the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) and eastern European countries . |
| 16 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 17 | He had , however , remained optimistic that the agreements reached at Yalta would be kept : in his last message to Churchill he had written " I would minimize the general Soviet problem . " |
| 18 | During the 30-minute court hearing , prosecutor Aurelio Trampe stated that he would seek the maximum five-year prison sentences on each of the charges . |
| 19 | Ben Ali said after Baccouche 's dismissal that Tunisia would pursue the economic structural adjustment plan recommended by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , while adapting it by increasing investment and employment . |
| 20 | These would reduce the basic income tax rate to 28 per cent which with 7.8 per cent social security contributions would bring the basic overall contribution rate to 35.8 per cent as against 48.3 per cent currently . |
| 21 | But Dr Caldwell warned that ‘ failure to change the consumption patterns of relatively rich countries like Wales would break the fragile global consensus achieved at the recent Earth Summit , and lead to environmental disaster . |
| 22 | ‘ Failure to change the consumption patterns of relatively rich countries like Wales would break the fragile global consensus achieved at the recent Earth Summit , and lead to environmental disaster , ’ he warned . |
| 23 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 24 | Donovan had taken a fairly low-key approach , refusing to accept the view ( promulgated by the CBI ) that legal restrictions on unofficial strikes would achieve the desired industrial peace , but Wilson and Barbara Castle convinced themselves that penal sanctions were necessary and justified , and in accordance with public opinion . |
| 25 | We 've asked four top designers to join us for the day and show just how they would accessorize the little black dress that is a staple of this season 's wardrobe . |
| 26 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 27 | In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context . |
| 28 | Theoretically , one would expect the Northern catholic community and the six counties of Ulster to be considered a lost remnant , unredeemed from British rule , and indeed this is by far the most popular interpretation . |
| 29 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 30 | If senescence is primarily due to late-acting deleterious mutations , then ( other things being equal ) one would expect the additive genetic variance for survival and fertility to increase with age . |