Example sentences of "[verb] that any [noun] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 2 | Tory councillors attempted a similar move 18 months ago , but gave it up after a panel reported that any reorganisation would cause 10 years of disruption . |
| 3 | The opposition argued that any delay would disrupt local government , claiming that this was the only part of the old democracy still functioning since April . |
| 4 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 5 | He added that any resistance would " be crushed " . |
| 6 | Current senior partner John Norton described it as ‘ a totally unwarranted action ’ , and added that any proceedings would be vigorously defended . |
| 7 | He almost invariably added that any expense would soon be made good by the increased value of the property . |
| 8 | Could my service assume that any minutes would only be distributed as ‘ Top Secret ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | Well then I ca n't believe that any garage would , would refuse to give you a ten piece for their own machine . |
| 10 | Colonies were very handy bargaining counters if a state wanted to concede something less important than territory in Europe , but it was hard to imagine that any country would want to take all of its rivals ' imperial possessions . |
| 11 | In terms of the revenue output it 's a hundred and forty three thousand below the estimates and it was agreed that any variations would be carried over into next year . |
| 12 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 13 | The exploration of dramatic configurations has revealed possibilities that are so many and varied that any list would be incomplete , if only for lack of tomorrow 's development . |
| 14 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 15 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 16 | Then , the average first-time buyer was borrowing 90 per cent of the price of his house , which meant that any fall would leave him underwater . |
| 17 | Duelling had been forbidden to serving officers , which meant that any duel would have to be fought in secret . |
| 18 | Perhaps he feared that any doubt would mean the postponement of his own release . |
| 19 | Though he 'd never really believed that any woman would behave that coldly and that violently in response to an attack . |
| 20 | And in the recent article he had read on the subject , even the sergeant in charge of the course had not believed that any woman would take his one piece of infallible advice . |
| 21 | The issue of selecting an NSF candidate for the ( as yet unannounced ) presidential elections was not resolved when it emerged that any candidate would be required to endorse Roman 's programme . |
| 22 | This means that any development would have to create little traffic . |
| 23 | ‘ I think that any down-side would more than be offset by the increased simplicity which single pricing would bring the client , allowing him or her to see exactly what they are getting . ’ |
| 24 | What makes the arrogant Mr Geldof think that any female would fancy a scruffy git like him , even on a desert island ? |
| 25 | Other African countries were vocally hostile , arguing that any trade would provoke an upsurge in poaching . |
| 26 | Others , including Hobson and Brailsford , went further , arguing that any League would have to concern itself with economic and social , as well as purely diplomatic , matters if the deeper causes of war were to be addressed . |
| 27 | He denied that any hardliners would be expelled , expressing the hope that ‘ they will decide to join a party which still clings to the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat ’ . |
| 28 | We might wish to say that any accountant would produce the same set of accounts from the same data . |
| 29 | However , Hannon maintains that any stiffness would have had no connection with the broken leg which led to Mr Brooks ' death . |
| 30 | Mr Smith 's survival techniques are sound and I can not imagine that any accountant would gainsay them . |