Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Any intelligent word processor you could type M and it would whiz down to the March .
2 The Leith Chamber of Commerce was instituted in 1840 and in 1852 the Directors petitioned for and obtained a Charter of Incorporation on their representation ‘ That the town of Leith is the principal seaport in the East of Scotland and it would tend much to the encouragement and promotion of the trade and manufacture already extensively established and carried on there , if the Petitioners were incorporated as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers , with the powers and privileges usually conferred on such bodies ’ .
3 It had to keep accelerating or it would drop out of the sky .
4 Rather , according to Lyman Spitzer of Princeton University writing in 1939 , it would spread out around the Sun as a tenuous cloud .
5 I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem .
6 If the weather improved it would start again on the following morning .
7 If you filled this room up with toluene it would stop here for the rest of its days , something like that , you know what I mean .
8 So I think it it would fit in with the the council 's a adopted economic development strategy .
9 Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command .
10 The colours go well together , but my nail varnish is the wrong shade — it would go better with the dress .
11 Even though it would go hard with the poor for this year .
12 I do not suggest that to restore benefit to 16 to 18-year-olds would solve this problem overnight , but it would go far down the road to alleviating this problem which surely must be unacceptable in 1993 .
13 But then it would go back to the usual music , the old pictures would go up again and it would be back to the black paintwork .
14 Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer .
15 er the calls are totally confidential and it would depend entirely on the child as to really what happened , because er you ca n't say to a child ‘ right I 'm going to report this ’ , it does n't happen like that .
16 ‘ I thought I would wear my thick coat because it might be cold waiting for the bus and it would stand up to the rain .
17 In other words , you train a bird of prey to do under your control what it would do naturally in the wild .
18 The talks took place as a new union study suggested that it would cost more in the long-term to close pits than to keep most of them open .
19 Sure it would bound back towards the green — a wide
20 So it would slip out of the group .
21 It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes .
22 For you would see the jeep in front of you proceeding along the Egyptian highway in a very dignified manner , when all of a sudden it would swing in to the side of the road near a fruit-barrow , a large brown hand would shoot out , and a succulent water-melon would disappear as the jeep accelerated away again .
23 It would turn out for the best in the end ; it must .
24 He says the load would stick at the end of the plane , making it stall , and it would fall out of the sky like a lift
25 Britain also rejected the proposal , presumably on the grounds that having to bring its standards up to those of the rest of Europe , it would lose out on the lucrative waste disposal trade it presently invites .
26 ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court .
27 A spokeswoman for the Women 's Centre , a voluntary organisation fighting against the proposed abolition , said it would add further to the misery of women who are already exploited as cheap labour .
28 It would come up in the conversation all the time , ‘ So you 've been separated from your husband and you have no boyfriends ? ’ — No — ‘ Are n't you interested in having boyfriends ? ’ — No — Because she was man-mad she could n't understand why I was n't .
29 He had the sensation that it would come apart from the body and roll over into his hands .
30 I 'm not sure I still think it would come out in the section about training needs rather than necessarily .
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