Example sentences of "[adj] would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore decided to run a third train on December 5 , but this would clash with the start of our intensive Santa Special operations and so we had no choice but to operate the train from the Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway Station . ’ |
| 2 | This would compensate for the extra costs and disadvantages of disability , and thereby help to reduce the disparity experienced by many older women between their needs and resources . |
| 3 | This would accord with the general understanding of the word objective , i.e. independent of the observer . |
| 4 | President Truman approved the extension of uninterrupted economic assistance to the ROK : this would continue under the aegis of the Department of the Army until the Administrator of Economic Cooperation was ready to assume responsibility . |
| 5 | This would cater for the variety of children that exist . |
| 6 | A prized trophy was its horn for , like the UNICORN 's , this would sweat in the presence of poison . |
| 7 | Clients who needed money would become upset at what they considered inappropriate questioning , but this would suggest to the workers that they had touched a sensitive point , confirming some personal theory that it was not really money that the clients required . |
| 8 | Convinced that the danger of the end of Christian society was at hand and that this would lead to the collapse of civilization , Eliot viewed London more in terms that contemporary Christians used to view Africa . |
| 9 | People could not persuade voters that some policies were better than others , for this would lead to the creation of parties , representative bodies whose purpose is to dominate those who are not members . |
| 10 | This would lead to the transfer of children 's day centres from social work to education and their possible future demise . |
| 11 | This would lead to the further weakening of claims for the existence of H. erectus in Europe in Europe ( Table 1 , a ) . |
| 12 | This would lead to the conclusion that the relevant ‘ discourse subjects ’ for a particular discourse fragment must be those to which reference is made in the text of the discourse . |
| 13 | This would lead to the formation of galaxies , stars , and eventually even insignificant creatures like ourselves . |
| 14 | The work for this would ferment in the house the right kind of feeling , atmosphere , to do away with the nastiness of the last day or so . |
| 15 | This would build on the very positive package of measures contained in the 1991 Planning an Compensation Act designed to bring Interim Development Order permissions up to modern environmental standards . |
| 16 | Carson , being a lawyer , felt this would result in the peace and tranquillity we all preferred . |
| 17 | This would result in the price increasing in Germany and falling in the UK . |
| 18 | Although he said he would be happy to see Brokerage break even by the end of the 1993 fiscal year , he did add that this would depend on the timing and amount of licence sales made . |
| 19 | It is not possible to say in the abstract what kind of decisions would be taken at these different levels , or at least not with any precision , since this would depend on the character of the economic relations between the general office of the enterprise and its operating units , and between the operating units themselves , quite apart from the particular forms of struggle at local and national level which would be required to implement any such scheme . |
| 20 | In part , however , this would depend on the government deciding to cut other taxes , particularly VAT , to offset the effect of levies on pollution , and on other nations adopting similar policies . |
| 21 | This would coincide with the centenary of Australia 's conversion from a group of colonies to a federation of states . |
| 22 | He told himself that it was pointless to speculate what difference , if any , this would make to the investigation . |
| 23 | This would concur with the conclusions of reviews of the much larger literature on support and health which does not specifically consider the effects of stress . |
| 24 | This would discriminate against the growth of small , new firms , which may rely on bank loans to finance their investment . |
| 25 | First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said . |
| 26 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 27 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 28 | One particular matter of concern would be the election of directors by particular constituencies ( shareholders on the one hand and employees on the other ) ; if it were intended that they should represent those constituencies , this would conflict with the general principle of company law that all directors should look to the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 29 | If dialogue is being taped in stereo , the signals from the individual speakers should not be given a pronounced left and right stereo bias as this would conflict with the performers ' relative positioning as seen in shot . |
| 30 | This would provide for the university to appoint a new lecturer to direct the course . |