Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would throw up a host of attendant problems . |
| 2 | John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office and chair of the IPCC 's Working Group I , said that Thatcher 's programme , if repeated worldwide , would not stop the rise in temperatures , but would slow down the rate of increase . |
| 3 | If these were to be conceded , they would rule out a number of technical options . |
| 4 | Of course , a full acceptance of the point of view would rule out the continuation of thoughts and feelings when the brain stops functioning . |
| 5 | Using our description above ( pp. 11 – 12 ) , construct a brief summary of the main points which would make up an instance of each of the following TYPES of argument about the book : |
| 6 | When Major stood outside Downing Street and promised ‘ a nation at ease with itself ’ , he was seen as a leader who would scoop up the votes of ‘ do n't knows ’ and floating social democrats . |
| 7 | This is a scaled-down version of what originally was to be an ambitious orbiting craft that would build up a picture of the planet 's surface using radar . |
| 8 | It would tie down a lot of troops and would also give Phnom Penh the opportunity to raise international alarm at the spectre of the return of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 9 | It would dry up the flow of Japanese credit to all American borrowers , private or public . |
| 10 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 11 | It was calculated that the measures contained in the 1992 budget would bring about a reduction of 3-4 per cent in the real incomes of many workers and pensioners , as anticipated increases in wages and in pensions were equivalent to half of the inflation rate ( expected to be 12.5 per cent ) . |
| 12 | There is unlikely to be any external set of circumstances ( other than a revolution ) that would bring about a collapse of this type . |
| 13 | When an agreement was drawn up in 1922 between the Vatican and the Soviet government for a Catholic famine relief mission , some Orthodox leaders in Western Russia declared that the Communists hoped that Catholic propaganda would bring about the downfall of the whole Orthodox Church . |
| 14 | Each state was required to submit a state implementation plan ( SIP ) indicating how its control programme would bring about the attainment of the NAAQSs by 1975 . |
| 15 | Having devised the SIP , the state had to present monitoring and modelling data indicating that its control programme would bring about the attainment of the primary NAAQSs . |
| 16 | Twice more , on 24 February and 21 March 1943 , Hitler repeated his threat that the war would bring about the extermination of Jewry , and came back to it again in one final reference — which produced ‘ lively applause ’ — during an address to generals and officers at Berchtesgaden on 26 May 1944 . |
| 17 | He had thought the death of his uncle , Sir Nelson , would bring about the end of his monetary problems , but Sir Nelson 's wealth was in his land and livestock . |
| 18 | Despite predictions from the FFA that drift-netting would bring about the collapse of albacore stocks within a few years , the Japanese delegation steadfastly refused to make any concessions . |
| 19 | Some economists predicted that such capital transfers would bring about the collapse of the international monetary system along with the Western world 's bankruptcy and demise . |
| 20 | Achievement of longer intervals between births would also reduce completed family size , and the elimination of high order birth , with their comparatively poorer survival chances , would bring about an amelioration of maternal and child morbidity and mortality conditions . |
| 21 | The assumption was that she would bring in a number of new people whose loyalty she could count on . |
| 22 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 23 | A public inquiry might be more beneficial because , as my hon. Friend said , it would bring out the details of the scheme . |
| 24 | It was agreed that the SAS would carry out a series of raids on these airfields in early July , leaving only a week to prepare for departure . |
| 25 | Newly created " executive delegations " would carry out the functions of the dissolved councils . |
| 26 | I would trace out the courses of rivers in my school atlas and imagine following them to their sources or to some foreign sea . |
| 27 | It was agreed that a joint group of experts or deputy foreign ministers from Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland would prepare a joint stand at the next Helsinki conference in 1991 , while another group would work out a plan of action for " entering Europe " . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know what form that decision will take and how they would work out the practicalities of making the generators buy more coal . ’ |
| 29 | He had known that Sidacai would work out the nature of the venture before he had to be told . |
| 30 | Such a result would wipe out the effect of the Danish vote and would , it was hoped , have the side-effect of dividing M. Mitterrand 's right-wing opponents . |