Example sentences of "[that] would [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains a Soviet priority to dissuade the ASEAN states from taking the final step that would transform ASEAN into a Western-sponsored security system . |
| 2 | He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space . |
| 3 | In the educational sphere Japanese rule aimed to achieve a level that would improve literacy but which would keep the Korean people in a subordinate position . |
| 4 | But if we think of our target as anything that would improve survival chances , the argument still works . |
| 5 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 6 | A design solution was needed that would impart information quickly and easily , while at the same time projecting an ‘ appropriate corporate ethos ’ for BP . |
| 7 | The City Airport is doing better but it 's still not doing that well , there is a market for an airfield that would serve executive and freight business for North London and of course Hertfordshire , that airfield is needed . |
| 8 | ( Skinner 1954:97 ) Based on his remarkable work with pigeons and other creatures , and upon the theory of stimulus-response and operant conditioning that developed from it , Skinner 's belief was that quite simple and inexpensive equipment could be fashioned that would revolutionize education and render it more scientific . |
| 9 | But generally speaking the criteria they tended to use was , if if it was work that would normally be superannuable under the teachers ' scheme then that that was work that would affect re-employment earnings . |
| 10 | New ideas relevant to the task are quickly adopted , but innovations that would involve crossing task boundaries are handled conservatively . |
| 11 | In some areas , most notably the liturgical and the ecumenical , Rome did get off to a good start in providing directives of a sort that would carry confidence at least temporarily ; even here , however , there was the inherent problem that a body of directives implied the establishment of a stable state ( e.g. in ecumenical relations ) , while the reality was in fact necessarily more fluid . |
| 12 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 13 | The Rebbe has told Israeli followers to vote against left-wing parties that would cede land to the Palestinians — an action he maintains would be militarily disastrous . |
| 14 | It could simply be a requirement for a bond or an insurance policy that would ensure repayment for depositors in the event of a collapse . |
| 15 | So far his nocturnal activities had produced scratched hands , a smell on his clothes that would ensure tongue pie from his mother next morning , and a great pile of seaweed . |
| 16 | They talk of significant investment in a company that would start life with over 500 employees . |
| 17 | A bargaining position was established that would draw attention to the needs of the lowest paid workers , and , hopefully , lead to a reasonable wage settlement . |
| 18 | It had to be a safe name , innocuous , nothing that would draw attention to the past . |
| 19 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 20 | If today 's brinkmanship backfires on Mr Yeltsin , he will almost certainly put to the popular vote the future of his reforms and a proposal for a constitution that would weaken parliament 's powers . |
| 21 | For this purpose , ‘ contingent liabilities ’ includes all transactions guaranteeing , underwriting , or pledging assets as collateral security for , obligations of a third party and ‘ commitments ’ includes every irrevocable commitment that would give rise to a credit risk . |
| 22 | Folly did n't want to encourage the sort of speculation that would give rise to — especially when she was so near to taking over as boss . |
| 23 | On existing membership figures that would give constituency parties 26 per cent of the vote , and the unions 74 per cent . |
| 24 | Marking his way carefully to the door that would give entry to the parcels office , he shone his torch around him . |
| 25 | Following an appeal by UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar for a cease-fire over civilian-populated areas , this was accepted by both sides and the secretary-general now sought to widen it into something that would give effect to the Security Council resolutions , call for an end to the fighting altogether . |
| 26 | He persuaded the Board in 1970 to recognise that a new kind of qualification was now required , one that would give status to the more ‘ creative ’ approach to drama in schools . |
| 27 | Yet to win the big audiences that would attract advertising , the companies had to spend large sums on attractive programmes . |
| 28 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 29 | Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ . |
| 30 | What needs to be done before you move in — repair or installation work that would make life very uncomfortable for you if you were already living on the premises . |