Example sentences of "[adj] would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 2 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 3 | Activists in Haringey persuaded the council to suspend their commitment to go to full committee status , because a sub-committee could have a majority of non-councillors ; this would facilitate greater participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities , particularly those who were black , disabled or unemployed . |
| 4 | This would go some way towards producing an equitable balance of provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 5 | The Parish Council think this would go some way towards producing a more equitable balance of service provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 6 | On top of this would go 60 tons of whindust , at about £6 a ton . |
| 7 | This would threaten existing collective bargaining . |
| 8 | This would maximise total revenue and result in a profit of £100,000 . |
| 9 | The former , however , may not be required to comply with all the requirements of local law where this would place unreasonable burdens on a company from another member state and where the public interest is adequately safeguarded in the member state of establishment . |
| 10 | Coun. Robson claimed this would generate more traffic along Larkspur Drive than if the estate was all bungalows . |
| 11 | The conference also discussed promoting " triangular trade " between eastern Europe and the CIS using third-party finance , in the hope that this would restore some of the trade between the Soviet Union and eastern Europe which had been lost with the transfer to hard-currency accounting in January 1991 [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 12 | The alternative would be to keep cats indoors even though this would curtail some of their freedom of movement and all their natural hunting behaviour . |
| 13 | This would suggest that Business Studies , along with other subjects such as perhaps Sociology and History , perhaps have to be re-evaluated , compared to other subjects such as Maths and Physics and Chemistry . |
| 14 | The State Agricultural Society of New York hired an entomologist , Asa Fitch , in 1854 to study the life history of insects in the hope that this would suggest new methods of control . |
| 15 | This would bring financial pressure to bear on his friends and family , and besides it was profitable . |
| 16 | It said this would bring positive improvements like more keyhole surgery , reduced waiting lists , and a day surgery unit . |
| 17 | This would bring those few universities currently outside the BLDSC scheme into it very quickly . |
| 18 | This would favour those meats perceived to be competitive or good value . |
| 19 | This would leave intact the procedure of notification au parquet to which the authors of the Convention took such exception , or even a device such as that once recognised in the English ecclesiastical courts of affixing citation of a foreign resident ‘ upon one of the columns of the Royal Exchange , or in front of some other well-known building , in a place of public resort , which merchants are in the daily habit of frequenting or passing by ’ . |
| 20 | Labour Minister Carlos Torres y Torres acknowledged that this would leave minimum wages well below the necessary minimum for subsistence , estimated at 87,000,000 intis ( approximately US$270 ) , but stated that any further increase would raise inflation and bankrupt small businesses . |
| 21 | This would leave nuclear-armed bombers , cruise missiles and depth charges . |
| 22 | This would leave less of the mudflats exposed . |
| 23 | This would enable all telephone calls in and out of their homes to be intercepted . |
| 24 | This would enable each exchange to trade its own local products , with international or pan-European contracts being traded perhaps on screens within the EC . |
| 25 | This would enable prospective studies to be performed to determine the importance of platelet function in the development of vascular disease . |
| 26 | This would enable positive action , guided by human judgement to be used to limit the spread of fire and provide a possibility of extinguishment in the case of failure by the purely automatic system to control the fire in its initial stages . |
| 27 | It was felt that this would enable more rail services to be withdrawn in rural areas without ‘ undue hardship ’ ( an ill-defined term ) being caused to the communities currently served by rail . |
| 28 | This would enable improved therapeutic strategies to be properly evaluated . |
| 29 | This would mean split powers , split registers of consents and split responsibilites for organising the schemes . |
| 30 | Even allowing for O'Donovan doing half as much business , this would mean 3000 tonnes of toxic waste leaving Ireland a year . |