Example sentences of "it would [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think the fans would welcome that because it would mean more weekend games .
2 But why do n't you allow them to run a similar course there because it would mean more student members
3 It would mean more job losses , dearer mortgages and more firms going bust .
4 I also envisage that it would review all audit qualifications of public interest companies and refer them as necessary to other statutory regulatory bodies .
5 Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants .
6 I do n't accept the assertions that it would achieve limited traffic benefits or indeed would would be unlikely to bring significant environmental relief .
7 It would incapacitate German submarine bases in the west ; restore to Belgium her occupied territory , thereby depriving Germany of a prime bargaining asset at a future peace conference ; and disrupt German communications to the Western Front from their depots in the lower Rhineland .
8 Researchers at Edinburgh University 's Centre for Speech Technology yesterday announced the development of software to convert text into speech electronically in all nine official European Community languages , and said it would create quality-controlled pronunciation dictionaries of all Community city , town , street , family and product names in machine-readable form .
9 It would give designated emergency crews the chance to achieve pay parity with firemen .
10 It would give designated emergency crews the chance to achieve pay parity with firemen .
11 It would give designated emergency crews the chance to achieve their goal of pay parity with firefighters .
12 It would give designated emergency crews the chance to achieve their goal of pay parity with firefighters .
13 Or , it would build 21 district hospitals and run them for a year .
14 It would incur large overtime commitments , have they any idea who is likely to pay it ?
15 When , a year ago , IBM announced it would support other networking protocols alongside its proprietary Systems Network Architecture ( CI No 1,901 ) there were some sceptics in the audience .
16 However , no figures were revealed as to the size of the RIS , and the key question of whether it would employ former Securitate officers was declared " confidential " .
17 For instance , it would let International Relations theories refer to ‘ the international system ’ if and only if there is enough of a set of rules ( explicit , tacit , or even perhaps latent ) which international actors share and follow .
18 The administration strongly opposed the bill , arguing that it would violate existing textile agreements with 38 countries , would undermine two multinational agreements , and would severely damage the current " Uruguay Round " of trade talks being held under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) .
19 Fearing it would lose general election votes , party leaders avoided any reference to a common age of consent in the policy review and replaced a commitment to ‘ full equality ’ for gays with ‘ greater equality ’ .
20 But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs .
21 The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally .
22 Later it announced that it would catch 296 minke whales this year — a level based on the recommendations of the IWC scientific committee and regarded as inadequate by many Norwegian whalers .
23 DEC also said it would provide R4000-based daughter cards to upgrade existing R3000 DECstations and DECsystems , but would give no indication as to whether it would proceed with MIPS beyond the R4000 , or concentrate on Alpha .
24 Yet if the cost of the road fund licence soared to a level sufficient to become a significant tax on ownership , it would hit low-paid country dwellers hardest and hurt those whom it was supposed to help .
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