Example sentences of "[verb] it would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation . |
| 2 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 3 | The Government says it would give the pensioners more security . |
| 4 | The council says it would welcome the chance to expand on the submission when the inquiry takes oral evidence . |
| 5 | And Japanese fishermen would pay huge sums for a tortoiseshell tom , to keep as a ship 's cat , for it was thought it would protect the crew from the ghosts of their ancestors and the vessel itself from storms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It shows it would cost the taxpayer between £8 million and £10 million a year less to keep a pit open than the continuing Exchequer cost of closure . |
| 8 | Because ideally if , if , if a dream was really gon na work it would disguise the anxiety under some reassuring manifest content that would stop you feeling anxious and therefore waking , would n't it ? |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) recently said to the House , rather chillingly , that if Labour were re-elected it would treat the national health service as it did last time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After the many modifications subsequently made to his scheme , the STV as we know it would ensure the subservience of all of them . |
| 12 | Behind Psychic TV exists an occult , disparate breed of hipsters heavily into Gary Glitter , early Sabbath , Arthur Brown , Grateful Dead just because they know it would scandalize the prevailing arbiters of taste . |
| 13 | There 's always a risk it may be hijacked but even a minimal military force accompanying it would warn the Serbs that the West meant business . |
| 14 | A council has banned them from putting metal shutters on their windows , saying it would spoil the look of the town centre . |
| 15 | The Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , has rejected Lady Thatcher 's idea of lifting the United Nations arms embargo on Bosnia saying it would prolong the conflict . |
| 16 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 17 | I believe it would meet the need which Mr has quite properly identified . |
| 18 | Her supporters believe it would force the government to reexamine their deportation procedures . |
| 19 | I told Mike Teague beforehand that if we lost it would mean the end of the road for a few of us . ’ |
| 20 | On a proportional grid , we would have to draw this as an egg-shaped , so that when knitted it would appear the correct shape . |
| 21 | Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale . |
| 22 | Opponents of the MTO claim it would institutionalise the primacy of free trade over environmental protection and make it easier to challenge high national standards on environmental protection as unfair barriers to trade . |
| 23 | In so far as literature would inevitably play a substantial part in any such course , the students reading it would learn the appropriate cultural codes rather than being expected to know them already . |
| 24 | Dora traced an abstract pattern with her finger on the table-cloth , as if she felt it would help the process of recall . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure it is , but I do n't suppose it would contain the sort of history I 'm interested in . ’ |
| 26 | Nigel remarked gloomily that he did n't suppose it would make the programmes any better , but in a way it did . |
| 27 | Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work . |
| 28 | If the winning shot ever comes from a longbow again , quite a few people thought it would mean the end of that meeting and adjournment to the pub to spend the rest of the day celebrating ! |
| 29 | There was a silence so heavy that Claudia thought it would shatter the phone , and when he spoke his voice was cold and remote . |
| 30 | Is it because both teacher and students secretly thought it would make the learning painless , automatic and work-free ? |