Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand Mrs Singh would lose all her social contacts in the local community once she did not have to take him to school every day . |
| 2 | Irvine has argued that the opening of this entry channel may also require InsP 4 and that such an action would explain those instances where both inositol phosphates are required . |
| 3 | Decisive action would exacerbate existing evils and undermine Britain 's strength . |
| 4 | for Moore , to say that an act was right was to say that no alternative action would produce better consequences , while to say that it was ‘ a duty ’ or ‘ obligatory ’ was to say that it would produce the best consequences possible . |
| 5 | now and that immediate action would save thousands of jobs ? |
| 6 | Regrettably , because to forcibly remove the cabins by legal action would take 12 months , the City Council considered they had no option but to approve Lucy 's application . |
| 7 | I mean what , what psychological characteristics would make one person more groupie than another or more needing or wanting or enjoying belonging to a group than another ? |
| 8 | When originally introduced it was thought that the availability of a detergent with inherent bactericidal characteristics would solve many of the problems associated with both cleaning and disinfection . |
| 9 | ( Holman would characterise this as ‘ blaming the poor ’ . ) |
| 10 | Increasingly people will tell you it is Monday , and most diaries and calendars would confirm that assumption by relegating Saturday and Sunday to the ‘ weekend ’ . |
| 11 | In the cold light of day , my inhibitions would prevent these performances and without hypnotic effects of refreshing liquids I could not put together the necessary words , my own and those of Robert Service , in an intelligible manner . |
| 12 | Bullock , following suggestions in S. G. Raybould 's recent book , The English Universities and Adult Education , argued that the universities should stick to Tutorial and preparatory-Tutorial Classes , leaving the WEA as the country 's main provider of less advanced courses in liberal studies ; for this expanded role , the Association would require increased government aid to finance additional full-time posts and would also need to ‘ get rid of those characteristics to which its critics have often pointed … conservatism , parochialism and class-consciousness ’ . |
| 13 | The Ramblers ' Association would get more progress if they worked with us all the time . |
| 14 | Then Mr Stein would have two permits and regulations do n't like that . |
| 15 | A guyline at the centre of each side would prevent this . |
| 16 | On Dec. 1 , 1989 , it was agreed that athletes for a joint Korean team at the 11th Asian Games ( to be held in Beijing , China , in 1990 — see p. 37041 ) would be selected and trained in open competition and that each side would bear half of the costs . |
| 17 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 18 | Each side would like mutual disarmament , but will be deterred from making any move in that direction by the belief that the other side would cheat , and thereby gain an arms advantage . |
| 19 | The UK government reacted angrily to what it saw as an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the colony on June 18 , when Guo Fengmin , the Chinese senior official on the Sino-British Joint Liaison group , said at the close of the 23rd Liaison Group meeting in Beijing that the Chinese side would find unacceptable the appointment of any members of the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) to the Executive Council . |
| 20 | Two motifs side by side would look good , especially if the right-hand side was knitted as shown and the left-hand side reversed so that one image mirrored the other . |
| 21 | Then , the theory runs , the Meyer stalking horse would bring serious challengers like Mr Michael Heseltine into the race . |
| 22 | By choice , no horse would live alone . |
| 23 | Labour would repeal all sensible Union legislation . |
| 24 | Labour would face strong pressure from the Unionists to give Northern Ireland what it is giving to Scotland , where there is also a separatist minority . |
| 25 | On the whole , women trade unionists agreed that the withdrawal of female labour would benefit male wages with the additional advantage that working class homes would be better ordered and managed . |
| 26 | ‘ Labour would reverse this independence and are committed to taking both colleges back into county council control , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Labour would disrupt industrial peace by weakening the power of management and the courts . |
| 28 | Labour would have 297 . |
| 29 | Implicit in this analysis is the view that Labour would have little scope for raising additional revenue by further increases in income tax directed at the better-off . |
| 30 | Labour would have 49 MPs plus ten others ; the Conservatives 11 MPs plus 28 others ; the SNP would have three MPs plus 29 others while the Lib Dems would have nine MPs plus 11 others . |