Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If piece-rates were lowered in an attempt to boost output then presumably workers would take other jobs , or would switch to another merchant . |
| 2 | I have no doubt that a brilliant article will appear but I am not at all fooled that someone of your peculiar talents would either be asked or would agree to such an easy exercise . |
| 3 | In a subsequent discussion on 23 March , MacArthur advocated an early peace conference despite the problems that would arise from Soviet obstruction . |
| 4 | What really annoyed Daugherty was that critics were applauding The Public Enemy , a movie which seemed to him to be just a very well-cut and scripted melodrama that would serve as good ‘ yokel bait ’ . |
| 5 | The suggestion was that West European foreign ministers should form a semi-permanent committee that would meet at regular intervals to discuss problems of common concern . |
| 6 | State intervention in rural manufacturing really dates only from the Second World War , after the report of the Scott Committee in 1942 assessed the advantages and disadvantages that would result from rural industrialization . |
| 7 | to the nature of the personal data and the harm that would result from such access , alteration , disclosure , loss or destruction as are mentioned in this principle ; and , |
| 8 | He will be aware that there is still a problem in my constituency and the south-west with the burden of the business rate , but is not the last thing that small businesses want the layers of bureaucracy that would result from 10 new regional assemblies , new sex and race discrimination legislation and the hundreds of new quangos that Labour would put into practice in its first year of office ? |
| 9 | The Government promised to consult the disabled persons transport advisory committee on the introduction of new regulations that would result in better standards of accessibility to buses for the handicapped and the disabled . |
| 10 | ‘ The goal was to develop a research process that would result in systematic , accurate collection of land ownership data while facilitating maximum participation and potential for follow-up action . ’ |
| 11 | According to the resolution the conference would have , among others , the following aims : to examine the state of the environment and changes which had occurred since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and since other meetings and agreements such as the 1987 Montreal protocol on the ozone layer [ see pp. 35678 ; 36412 ] ; to " examine strategies for national and international action … to promote a supportive international economic environment that would result in sustained and environmentally sound development in all countries , with a view to combating poverty and improving the quality of life " ; and to promote the " further development of international environmental law " . |
| 12 | As the House knows , Labour has no difficulty making pledges that would result in untold expenditure . |
| 13 | However , in instances whereby an originating office makes a request for assistance that would result in more than simply providing a favour' then a fee is appropriate and its level should be determined directly between the two offices concerned . |
| 14 | Following his ill-fated collaboration with Crystal Gayle on the soundtrack to Coppola 's One From the Heart , Waits released the brilliantly eclectic Swordfishtrombones , the first instalment of a trilogy that would continue through 1985 's Rain Dogs and conclude with 1987 's Franks Wild Years . |
| 15 | He felt he needed professional help , and entered into analysis that would continue for many years to come . |
| 16 | I did not become a Labour Member of Parliament or the Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment to work for policies that would lead to chronic mass unemployment . |
| 17 | One had tried to involve some of the staff but they apparently refused to get involved ; another head wanted more involvement and had a plan of action that would lead to this : another was sure that all staff were involved and departments were compelled to discuss finance at least once a month . |
| 18 | The rebels have vowed to keep up the pressure on Mr Cristiani until his government agrees to negotiation that would lead to full guarantees for human rights and civil liberties , as well as the dismissal of several high-ranking army officers . |
| 19 | And someone would be able to find them ; someone would be able to take Jay 's name as a starting point and make a journey that would lead to those other names . |
| 20 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 21 | This arrangement is typical of the forethought that would go into all the Company 's future operations , and was a major factor in their survival . |
| 22 | Governments would have to submit to the council of finance ministers rules or guidelines on budgetary policy that would go into national law . |
| 23 | The retention of every minor detail might prove impractical , but there will be some historical study that would benefit from all the data being extant . |
| 24 | A letter was sent out to every planning authority asking whether there were any empty listed buildings in its district that would benefit from some publicity . |
| 25 | How do you tell if you have an application that would benefit from this technology ? |
| 26 | There ought to be a prayer that would do for all men , all the murdered bodies all over the world . |
| 27 | Then she stepped away from him , fearful of her own weakness and afraid that if he kissed her she would dissolve into a quivering jelly that would melt from sheer ecstasy . |
| 28 | The vacuum created by the sudden termination of the Pacific War raised enormous questions on the combustible internal situation in the territories affected , on allied policies , and on the relationship that would exist between local representatives of the allied powers and their home governments . |
| 29 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |
| 30 | However , Councils are not allowed to support journeys that would compete with commercial services . |