Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 2 | If it was straightforward to assess the efficient quantity of the externality and hence the correct tax or subsidy , and straightforward to monitor the quantities produced and consumed , such taxes or subsidies would allow the market to achieve an efficient resource allocation . |
| 3 | Terminals to access the central index would be located in all branches , and staff changing the status of any document or files would up-date the index accordingly . |
| 4 | A person who stood at his window shouting threats , abuse or insults would commit the offence so long as the victim was in the garden or elsewhere outside the structure of the dwelling . |
| 5 | The commission , in its first rule , hoped that authors would mention the official name in parenthesis next to the name chosen by them . |
| 6 | In contrast , the Munn Report assumed that headteachers would take the broad decisions after consultation . |
| 7 | Opposition came mainly from lawyers and magistrates , protesting that prosecutions would increase the number of offences on account of the publicity . |
| 8 | The students seemed satisfied with assurances that reforms would follow the policy meeting scheduled for the summer , and called off their sit-in . |
| 9 | What they meant by that was that managers would do the kind of thing I 've just described like y'know transmit an ambiguous message orally rather than in a memo and visa versa . |
| 10 | MGM 's Dynamite directed by Cecil B. de Mille was for Daugherty nothing more than a torrid melodrama of conventional silliness but he knew that audiences would love the tremendous cave-in of the coal-mine . |
| 11 | We always anticipated that centres would take the opportunity offered by ACDP to develop new courses — either courses in completely new areas , courses which combined related disciplines or new approaches to traditional courses . |
| 12 | The initial necessity for building railway stations on the out-skirts of towns caused other companies to adopt the country-house model , with the idea that passengers would spend the night there before beginning their journey or after arriving . |
| 13 | The union pointed out that under the Merchant Shipping Act , the loss of a ship terminated a seaman 's contract and that newcomers would expect the wages which they had previously enjoyed ; since these varied from port to port and ship to ship , domestic peace on board would be unlikely . |
| 14 | Lord Donaldson asked if he was seriously suggesting that juries would multiply the award by 10 times . |
| 15 | In brief we requested that legislation be enacted to preserve the total assets of Pension Funds for the sole benefit of members , that there be equal number of members and employers as Trustees and that members would have the right to oppose Hostile Trustees . |
| 16 | There was also a danger that particles would enter the food chain or water . |
| 17 | Sustained efforts made to limit educational opportunities for commoners were inspired in part by the hope that this would ensure that noblemen would provide the increasingly specialized and trained personnel required . |
| 18 | A significant amendment to the government 's original proposal was the 100-day time limit , included as a concession to radical nationalists , although Prunskiene expressed confidence that negotiations would resolve the key questions within that time . |
| 19 | They say that could mean that tests would show the presence of Digoxin where none was administered . |
| 20 | The couple felt they should make their plight known so that others would realise the danger of accepting a surveyor 's report . |
| 21 | But , fearing that others would claim the credit for the discovery , they went into print . |
| 22 | Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle . |
| 23 | I needed to get my papers round before the weekend so that colleagues would have the opportunity to read them — the usual rule is that papers should be circulated to ministers seven days before a meeting . |
| 24 | He tried to clear the rubbish himself and stayed up all night in the hope that workmen would tackle the job . |
| 25 | But the company 's chief executive , John Roberts , told the Daily Post that consumers would bear the cost of an 8pc VAT charge on electricity , to be imposed next year . |
| 26 | Poets and artists would see the world in a visionary light : thus Thomas Treherne ( 1637–74 ) , William Blake ( 1757–1827 ) and William Wordsworth ( 1770–1850 ) were all visionaries in this sense , seeing the world as informed by a presence , piercing the veils of the commonplace to glimpse another order of being . |
| 27 | If the luminosity increases beyond 10 38 ergs -1 , 1,000 times the present luminosity , the combination of small scale size and energetics would make the black hole model much more compelling . |
| 28 | A few minor inconsistencies and divergences would give the appearance of verisimilitude . |
| 29 | Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them . |
| 30 | It certainly looked more suited to planting telephone poles than megaliths — despite the fact that the closest phone was in Makassar — and throughout the ensuing month its groans and screams would punctuate the festivities . |