Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
2 | Christ , I 'd go AABB if I did n't think it 'd tank the final couplet . |
3 | Erm , if members do n't like the word consumer then I think they would have to use public , er it does cover , I I think the title County Public Protection Officer would er , er satisfy Mr and I do n't think it would upset the Chief Fire Officer . |
4 | Furthermore , it is said that it would upset the constitutional balance between the courts and the executive if the Crown could be held in contempt of court for disobeying a prerogative order of prohibition or mandamus . |
5 | This followed Iran 's May 20 announcement that it would boycott the annual pilgrimage to Mecca ( the haj ) for the third successive year after Saudi Arabia had refused to withdraw its 45,000 quota limit for Iranian pilgrims . |
6 | It would explain the extraordinary letter about the cheque — an act of ludicrous personal generosity to help Ingard out of a hole , or , perhaps , more sanely , to try to preserve the shipping company from going down if the rest of the empire crashed . |
7 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he perked up , ‘ if it is the Old Ones , it would explain the telepathic pollution , and there 'll be more to it that we have n't thought about yet , but we 'll find out later . ’ |
8 | Such an order would impinge upon the operation of the organisation ; it would prevent the International Tin Council from having its Headquarters in the place stipulated by the treaty , and its members would be unable to perform their treaty obligations . |
9 | France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues . |
10 | It would attract the automatic charge of ‘ élitist ’ , but so , potentially , do many worthwhile kinds of intellectual activity . |
11 | If it held the shares intact it would suffer the same disadvantage that our ordinary investor encountered . |
12 | In Zimbabwe 's case , England openly opposed their long-awaited elevation to Test status in 1992 on the grounds it would devalue the international game . |
13 | In fact , there 's so much bonding on stage that it would make the average punter slightly sick . |
14 | As the matter spirals into the black hole , it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction , causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth . |
15 | Not only were we not interested in how socialism was realized , we did n't believe it would make the slightest difference to the position of women even if it were . |
16 | Unkind critics of the Amstrad , er , Sinclair PC200 have suggested it would make the ideal present for someone with everything , as you would n't give it to someone who actually needed a PC . |
17 | It would make the whole exercise entirely pointless , but she did n't care . |
18 | Because if if people took advantage of the of these facilities it would make the whole business an awful lot cheaper for them . |
19 | Having a resistivity of some 10MΩ and a permittivity of 3 , it would remain the first choice of insulation for undersea cables until development of para gutta , composed of wax and deproteinised rubber . |
20 | Ghosh and Senko put forward an interpolation search in place of the track or lowest-level index , and showed that for normal key distributions it would improve the direct retrieval performance of IS files . |
21 | The mechanics of it would capture the young imagination . |
22 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
23 | First , it would undo the anti-inflationary credibility that they have painfully won in recent years , and which is the precise benefit offered by EMS membership . |
24 | It would retain the Yugoslav flag and anthem and a joint parliament and government , co-operate in foreign policy and defence , and form an economic union . |
25 | Erm I tend to share Patrick Earle 's reservations about this particular policy , I think that it would convey the wrong message erm to the development industry . |
26 | If such a total were set down , it would blow the whole review out of the water . |
27 | Conservation bodies such as English Heritage and the Royal Fine Arts Commission were appalled at the plan and said it would ruin the historic town . |
28 | Although the Police Federation welcomes the Bill , it would prefer the basic offence of taking away without consent possibly to incur the same penalty as was available until 1988 , of up to three years ' custodial sentence . |
29 | And it is true that if , for example , there were a library catering specifically for the mentally retarded , this would be the first to be closed because it would create the greatest publicity . |
30 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |