Example sentences of "would [vb infin] it [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
2 | The ministry source noted several possible scenarios , from the sale of individual divisions of Bull , which would enable it to eliminate unprofitable activities , to the taking on board of new investors , to the complete dismantling of the French computer maker . |
3 | North Korea was also believed to be constructing a nuclear reprocessing plant which would enable it to extract unused plutonium and uranium by-products from spent nuclear fuel rods . |
4 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
5 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
6 | In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided . |
7 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
8 | IBM bought up the technology outright before going public on its agreement with Apple to ensure that no enterprising outfit could subsequently go off and get a licence from Interactive that would allow it to develop compatible versions of PowerOpen , AIX or even Pink . |
9 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |