Example sentences of "[conj] it would [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It had to keep accelerating or it would drop out of the sky .
2 He drew the conclusion that this cult was popular in Britain , although it would seem more likely that it was restricted to the Army .
3 It is typical of the Labour party 's attitude that it would fritter away additional resources by spending more money not on increasing the number of training places but on paying more to those already in training places .
4 Such an alliance was unacceptable to a number of DYP deputies and to the SHP ; the RP had said that it would co-operate only if an Islamic leader was first agreed on to replace Özal .
5 The move was welcomed by the ANC which said that it would co-operate fully with them .
6 These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly .
7 A new study by two British economists shows that it would do just the opposite * .
8 It is , therefore , worth pointing out , before we come to the consideration of legal sovereignty specifically , that even if Parliament could pass certain laws , it is improbable , in greater or lesser degree , that it would do so .
9 And on April 29th France suddenly decided not to lift its border controls , despite promises that it would do so on July 1st under the Schengen agreement that aims to abolish passport controls for citizens of nine of the 12 members states .
10 The constitutional implications of the crisis were underlined by the Supreme Court which on Dec. 6 drew attention to the unprecedented failure of an elected state government to uphold court orders despite a formal assurance that it would do so [ see pp. 39193-94 . ]
11 The neo-classical economists argued that it would do so and , therefore , that all Keynes had done in effect was to add a single assumption to the neo-classical system : the assumption that wages and prices were inflexible downwards because of the existence of trade unions and other restrictive practices ( which , of course , was well known anyway ) .
12 One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe :
13 There was no official reaction to the decisions of the conference from President Mobutu Sese Seko , although on April 27 the President , in unusually conciliatory terms , said that he was confident that it would bring about peaceful democratic change .
14 He said that the woman in the house had only a table and television , and had spent the night before polishing the table so that it would bring in a wee bit extra to clear her debt .
15 It 's impossible to judge exactly how many people will come in as a result of that and er , how much expenditure will be incurred because as you know we 're in a recessionary period and as you 've already heard there is concern about current trading , but I would hope that it would bring in er , something like a hundred and fifty thousand extra people , certainly in a good year I 'd expect more than that but really that 's about as much as I 'm prepared to say with some additional spending which will be incurred at Alton Towers .
16 I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem .
17 Many teachers were unsure that they would get much out of the appraisal and felt that it would change little , especially in the light of probable cuts in spending in education .
18 Elections to the reconstituted 50-seat National Assembly took place on Oct. 5 , the government having affirmed in a statement on Sept. 6 that it would remain strictly impartial during the electoral process .
19 Even if such an institution were established , it is unlikely that it would remain truly anarchic for long .
20 His absence had n't prevented her thinking about him , but perhaps she had allowed herself to believe that it would continue indefinitely , hence her shock at seeing him now and the panicky sensation of a shadow falling over her once more , its darkness an almost tangible threat .
21 and then if you did that it would tighten on to your walls
22 The NPA declared that it would step up its insurgency and launch attacks " without prejudice to all relief and rehabilitation efforts " .
23 Following the collapse of the talks , the federal government suggested that it would draw up a package of constitutional reforms to be presented to Quebec and the other provinces .
24 Fearing that he might end up excluded , whatever steps were taken next , Edward managed next morning to get a memo through to ‘ C' 's personal assistant , with a promise that it would end up on his desk .
25 Sponsors of the bill estimated that it would create more than 1,000,000 new jobs and would preserve some 1,000,000 existing jobs .
26 We did n't realize , as we sat around my flat being filmed by the Newsnight team , that it would consume so much of our time , and of our lives .
27 A possible limitation to this is the suggestion that it would cover only those matters which had been before the House , or at least those coming before the House in the current Parliamentary session .
28 UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost .
29 Sarah refused saying that it would cost too much in petrol to have an extra person in the car .
30 It 's estimated that it would cost around 3 1/2 million pounds , and South Oxfordshire District councillors will need to discuss the possibility tomorrow .
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