Example sentences of "[noun] it would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their attachment to frontal teaching and related methods it would therefore seem that the junior highs outsinned the devil highs themselves . |
| 2 | But under section 83(1) the building society , if rectification were ordered , would have what seems to me to be an unimpeachable statutory right to an indemnity against the loss it would thereby suffer . |
| 3 | Thus , by the very beginning of 1947 , and well before ‘ containment ’ , the Marshall plan and the Zhdanov doctrine drew the battle lines between Russia and the US in Europe and in general it may be seen that a framework of impressions , intentions , hopes and misunderstandings was being thrown up which would support US policy towards Vietnam for the next 20 years and under whose weight it would ultimately collapse . |
| 4 | If the Beast were a car it would probably have to complete with the Land Rover . |
| 5 | If this stuff was a car it would now require an MOT . |
| 6 | Iraq appears — perhaps because of security considerations — to have withheld some of the data it would normally have reported , leaving gaps in the IMF 's tabulations which have to be made good from less direct sources like the analyses conducted by the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) and economic commentators . |
| 7 | So if you kept these same ratios same fractions even if you got ten pound or a hundred pounds or ten pence it would still look like that . |
| 8 | Botswana is just one country whose only daily paper is owned and run by the government , without whose assistance it would probably have no national paper at all . |
| 9 | Erm so perhaps with a degree it would only take maybe three years |
| 10 | If the terms of redemption merely provided for their redemption at par , their holders would be highly vulnerable ; for if interest rates fell since the date of issue it would clearly pay the company to redeem them and to borrow money at a lower rate of interest than the fixed dividend . |
| 11 | Well if there was a meeting of the town council it would perhaps start at eight o'clock . |
| 12 | He 'd show her , and even if she did n't appreciate the work it would perhaps give him a moment to think , to recover his poise . |
| 13 | After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that . |
| 14 | Collie Curran is n't one for taking solace in moral victories , but he said : ‘ Had we had a full team it would certainly have been much closer . |
| 15 | None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot . |
| 16 | When Bobby Jones and Alistair Mackenzie designed the course , they could have scarcely envisaged what a shrine it would eventually become . |
| 17 | If Britain was to farm without the benefit of subsidies it would clearly have to enjoy some significant advantages — and before advocating radical policies the industry would have to be in a position to answer ‘ yes ’ to a number of harsh economic questions . |
| 18 | At this point it would automatically have been sensitive enough to pick up airborne vibrations of sufficient loudness and/or sufficient nearness of origin . |
| 19 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 20 | If it had been the house and the body it would surely have referred not to digging a woodland grave but to digging in an animal cemetery . |
| 21 | The town was ‘ backward ’ compared to the big cities , but according to local Party officials it would soon catch up . |
| 22 | It was an excellent little cameo , and as most of the dialogue was in the form of a rehearsed speech to the court of Alexandria it would hardly matter if , overcome by nerves , she forgot her lines . |
| 23 | If a newspaper commissioned a political poll based on the opinion of a single person it would immediately become a laughing-stock . |
| 24 | In the case of a two-dimensional spherical surface it would simply reproduce the sphere . |
| 25 | Judging by the small holes it would probably have been attached to either wood or leather . |
| 26 | Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 . |
| 27 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 28 | Peking said it would not persecute Mr Yang if he was returned to the mainland , a clear sign it would strongly disapprove of Hong Kong not returning him . |
| 29 | If things go wrong the centre can not , rescue or support the falling unit — like a dead apple it would simply drop off the tree . |
| 30 | Even if I went onstage and did a direct rip-off of Jagger or Bowie it would never come off as a complete copy because Blondie is a girl . ’ |