Example sentences of "[adj] would [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Kuwait , invaded by Iraq in August 1990 , this would refer not only to the Iraqis setting alight the oil wells but to the deliberate pumping of six million barrels of oil from refineries into the Persian Gulf waters . |
| 2 | This would lay down specifically when they can and can not play or rehearse . |
| 3 | This would show how well the catapult worked and if they had to make any adjustments in their aim . |
| 4 | But this would rule out so many of our statements as insignificant that it would be self-defeating . |
| 5 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 6 | English court procedure at present gives no rights of intervention to third parties ; and it might be argued that if they were significantly extended , this would increase even further the role of the courts in resolving disputes which ought to be settled by political , not legal , means . |
| 7 | ‘ We hope it goes big , ’ said Photoplay of Street Scene , for ‘ big money on this would encourage more really excellent pictures ’ . |
| 8 | I sit scratching my head wondering what 's happened , and he puffs on one of those stinking cigars , telling me it was , obvious this would happen right back when I moved that pawn . |
| 9 | Once state pension ages have been equalised for men and women , this would become administratively more feasible , so there may well be a move in 1996 . |
| 10 | This would occur as more efficient companies in the rest of the EC displaced domestic companies in these countries . |
| 11 | Contamination was calculated from the concentrations in the aspirated water ( Table IV ) ; this would have only minimally increased ( 0.2–7.4% ) these values , except for iron , for which the concentrations could therefore only be estimated ( 3.5 µM in normal gastric juice ) , assuming that about one third of the recorded values ( that is ca 1.7 µM ; Table III ) was a result of unavoidable contamination of samples . |
| 12 | This would include not only Owen but the education officer responsible for the administration of the units . |
| 13 | This would come out better than $150 a day . |
| 14 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |
| 15 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 16 | This is as true of scientists as of any other group of humans , some would say more so . |
| 17 | Eight out of twelve Members , however , welcomed the extensive coverage being given to select committees , and some would like even more . |
| 18 | However , the significance of the slave trade , and subsequently the establishment of British colonies in the Caribbean and the imperial domination of India , lay not merely in their ideological impact on the growth of racism at home , but also , and some would argue more importantly , in their economic impact on Africa , the Caribbean , India and Britain . |
| 19 | Surely , if there really were a knowable pre-life creator , such would have long since become truly known to humanity , and would not have remained a subject of speculation after many thousands of years . |
| 20 | The ‘ other professional officers ’ whose comments might be incorporated if appropriate would include not only the officers and advisers of the authority and centrally employed caring and counselling staff but also teaching and ancillary colleagues within the school . |
| 21 | and that 'd go along both with |
| 22 | " We might call him an old shellback , if you think that 'd go down better , instead of an Ancient Mariner . " |
| 23 | That would I mean that 'd splash down there . |
| 24 | ‘ Either would do very nicely , sir . ’ |
| 25 | First , we would expect over time that , for example , certain words would fall out of use and items related to these would appear relatively more difficult than those which use words still current . |
| 26 | These would fit in well temperamentally and size-wise . |
| 27 | The government had begun to introduce from March 20 monthly compensation payments on top of wages , pensions , student grants and child benefit , albeit conceding that these would cover only around 85 per cent of the cost of the price rises . |
| 28 | As wages declined , less money was available for purchasing inessential goods , so the prices of these would rise less steeply . |
| 29 | I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end , serving some plan — that all would come out well in the end , because there was some great plan over all . |
| 30 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |