Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
| 2 | After Alan Duff , very few teachers ' books would have stood a chance . ’ |
| 3 | Randi describes their methods in detail , except where some professional magicians ' secret would otherwise be exposed . |
| 4 | It was prompted by nationwide dismay at an announcement that 31 out of 50 pits still operating in the UK were to close and up to 30,000 miners ' jobs would be lost . |
| 5 | The civil servants ' reluctance would be resolved by a ministerial directive that the project must be supported — some action was always better than none , the project would have an impact in several regions , if it worked it would boost exports and create employment . |
| 6 | In the first place , there is the time factor : her first biography was begun over twenty years after the publication of BT and even honest sisters ' memories would be fallible at such a distance . |
| 7 | Lexandro had expected that the Imperial Fists ' home-base would be on a world . |
| 8 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 9 | In the 1970s , Jeremy Thorpe played the hung parliament question simply and cleanly , urging voters to embrace it , confident in the knowledge that Liberal MPs ' votes would be a force for moderation and common sense , curbing the excesses of whichever major party formed a minority government . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats ' total would fall from 22 ( including by-elections ) to 16 in the new Parliament . |
| 11 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |
| 12 | The three teams ' fixtures would be rescheduled for Sunday , May 9 , with the same kick-off time so there was no advantage to be gained . |
| 13 | MDC noted that a Younger Chemists ' reception would be held during the 1992 annual congress and that Ciba-Geigy had agreed to provide sponsorship . |
| 14 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
| 15 | This assertion was grounded on results of several studies , including one based upon the 25 WFS countries mentioned above and which reported that if all mothers had seven or more years of schooling , other things being equal ( that is , all mothers ' offspring would have the same conditions concerning survival as those observed for the educated mothers ' newborn babies ) , infant mortality would fall by 41 per cent and death rates of children aged 1–4 by 60 per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.21 ) . |
| 16 | I was fortunate in that I was married before the war and the Ipswich Council had decided that married men 's wages would be made up . |
| 17 | When the House of Lords reconsidered Lord Rawdon 's bill in March the next year they were told that , if they would assent to it , in a short time all debtors ' prisons would become the residence of swindlers only . |
| 18 | Mrs J. Ramsay MacDonald believed that while a prohibition on married women 's work would cause distress in the short term , in the long run it would ensure that men provided for their families . |
| 19 | Editor , — Ellis Field suggests that increasing the number of consultants to help reduce junior doctors ' hours would alter the nature of senior posts for the worse and advocates a substantial increase in junior staff . |
| 20 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 21 | My goal in five years ' time would be |
| 22 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
| 23 | Unless cash ratios were imposed on every single financial institution , the control of certain institutions ' lending would merely shift business to other uncontrolled institutions . |
| 24 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
| 25 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
| 26 | According to the Middle East Times of July 23-29 Garner " stressed that Western soldiers ' presence would not involve action against the PKK " . |
| 27 | If it was to be provided in addition to principal repayments in the revenue account , then local authorities ' capital would increase . |
| 28 | The local authorities ' functions would be in the planning , coordination , regulation and finance of community care , rather than its direct provision . |
| 29 | Thus arguments for controlling local authorities ' spending would appear to weigh even less powerfully within monetarist theory than in Keynesian arguments . |
| 30 | First on most reformers ' lists would come the financial situation , with specific benefits for prisoners ' wives . |