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 | Those who said they would prefer the smallest possible instalments , spread over a long period , were most commonly people in lower socio-economic groups , people with current credit commitments , and people with whom the amount they said they would borrow ( if they borrowed money ) was relatively small . |
| 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 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Without specifying whether the state would grant the Roman Catholic Church legal recognition , Salinas undertook to promote it to a " new legal position " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Five years ago , Mrs Thatcher had a commanding lead over Mr Kinnock as the person who ‘ would make the best Prime Minister ’ . |
| 10 | The 19 per cent who thought in 1987 he would make the best Prime Minister compares with 28 per cent today . |
| 11 | A total of 25.8pc now think he would make the best Prime Minister — up 0.8pc from July , while Mr Major 's rating has fallen again , from 17.7pc to 16.1pc . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Later , over their wine at the Franz Joseph , he would make the odd tactful comment to Busacher . |
| 14 | To the followers of the ‘ classical economists ’ , who argued that the industrialized state would make the greatest possible contribution to public welfare if competition were to remain unshackled , the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the present day has been marked by increasing government interference with the economy . |
| 15 | Then , Sabraxis would make the individual concerned practise with her five hours a day for a week . |
| 16 | A measure of the difference between Mr Major 's personal standing and Mrs Thatcher 's is that , whereas a mere 19 per cent of voters on Friday and Saturday said they thought Mr Major would make the worst Prime Minister , nearly double that proportion , 34 per cent , thought the same of Mrs Thatcher five years ago . |
| 17 | That would explain the familiar juvenilian ring of several passages in the first two acts . |
| 18 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From the time of the Falklands War , it was certain that the Tories would win the next general election , and that Mrs Thatcher would gain new stature as Prime Minister . |
| 21 | As question marks over Mr Major 's future grew at Westminster , Mr Heseltine said Mr Lamont 's speech would be forgotten very quickly and Mr Major would win the next general election . |
| 22 | Selective internment , he said , would free the Roman Catholic people of the Falls from the stranglehold of terrorism . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 30 | 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 . |