Example sentences of "would [vb infin] that [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After all , no one would think that the beauty of an object is simply the sum of the beauties of its parts .
2 Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) .
3 She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine .
4 ‘ They would explain that the halo of cloud is a perfectly natural phenomenon .
5 Drawing together the two strands of our research proposal , we would hypothesise that the process of accommodation to changes in the social construction of marriage and marriage problems which forced the NMGC to reassess its goals , also involved a shift from a movement broadly committed to the defence of the institution of marriage to an increasingly specialised agency , treating marital problems as the products of new-type privatised marital relationships .
6 Sometimes the Senate would decree that the son of a deceased emperor was unfit to succeed his father .
7 Few would doubt that the rise of government has produced economic inefficiency and restricted the freedom of choice .
8 For instance , teachers involved in this scheme would know that the success of their female pupils would be very carefully monitored , and that senior people in the school would be looking at the girls ' test results .
9 To take the British example , I would hazard that the ratio of real balances to total private sector net worth is less than 1% ( see Dow and Saville ( 1988 ) for a breakdown of the constituent parts of private sector wealth ) .
10 Analysis of early fourteenth-century letter-collections would show that a form of French , perfectly comprehensible to both Frenchmen and Englishmen alike , was the normal language of secular correspondence .
11 A review by the C E C , in my opinion , would show that the agenda for the future will be local .
12 It would show that the behaviour of humans was governed by principles of cause and effect which were just as invariable as the behaviour of matter , the subject of the natural sciences .
13 On the other hand , an arbitrary rule of substitution whereby two expressions are decreed to be interchangeable for each other within a given context , reveals nothing about the " sameness of meaning " unless we are in a position to explain the general rule governing such substitutions , which would ensure that the truth-value of the propositions in which such substitutions are carried out remains always and necessarily unaltered .
14 This theory would ensure that the need for new main classes was minimized and that the basic framework of the scheme would appropriately admit every subject .
15 It would ensure that the vote of every citizen had equal weight .
16 If fire fighting is to be undertaken in such circumstances it would appear that a range of pre-planned , pre-positioned equipment is necessary , capable of being independently controlled and deployed .
17 ‘ None of the individual specifications appears to embrace the whole of the mechanical conditions to be dealt with , but there were many good points contained in the specifications of Messrs. Glover and Messrs. Gwynne ; and it would appear that a combination of certain facets of these two schemes would produce a highly satisfactory machine .
18 There is no individual specification which appears to embrace the whole of the mechanical conditions to be dealt with ; but there are many good points contained in the specification of Messrs. Glover and Messrs. Gwynne ; and it would appear that a combination of certain parts of these two schemes would produce a highly satisfactory machine .
19 In Britain it would appear that the percentage of those aged 65 + defined as living in some form of institution has remained constant or perhaps decreased slightly .
20 It would appear that the insistence on claiming that these and other similar wars are ‘ holy ’ wars , is , and always has been , but a ploy necessary to provide a reason for the establishment and use of forces for material advantages .
21 ‘ It would appear that the death of his friend was , for Monsieur Gebrec , an insupportable loss . ’
22 The site of occurrence and timing of the parasitic larval moults of P. equorum are not precisely known , but it would appear that the moult from L2 to L3 occurs between the intestinal mucosa and the liver and the two subsequent moults in the small intestine .
23 It would appear that the objection to local income tax is political rather than practical .
24 With the cutbacks in schedules by major air carriers , especially to the smaller cities , it would appear that the future of FEC is guaranteed , and their Minifreighters will continue scheduled door to door overnight deliveries of small packages between major U.S. markets .
25 Then , as now , it would appear that the assumption of responsibilities and power , however small , was not without its dangers .
26 It would appear that the effect of the section will be to apply a fault based regime to new products .
27 On the surface , then , it would appear that the move towards criterion-referencing would be seen as a major step forward .
28 It would appear that the explanation for the strong link between sex and crime must lie in the wider stratification system in society .
29 It would appear that an obligation of confidence may arise in relation to information which is overheard but it seems that this will only be the case where the recipient has used surreptitious means to put himself in a position to overhear the information .
30 In other words , if the assumption of rational expectations is correct we would expect that a regression of the two equations in equation ( 3.43 ) , using a large sample of observations , would produce estimates of γ and δ approximately equal to the expressions on the right-hand sides of equations ( 3.48a ) and ( 3.48b ) evaluated at the estimates of α and β .
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