Example sentences of "[conj] it would [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 2 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 3 | Thomas did n't look immediately cheered , but might relay some of that , Nicholas thought , where it would help matters . |
| 4 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 5 | With a few possible exceptions , it is not worthwhile stocking up with other components in large numbers because it would either be too costly , or it would take years to use them all up . |
| 6 | She 'd have to give this … person … something or it would spoil Sam 's holiday — which was like saying it would spoil his entire year . |
| 7 | Not so that it would stop cars getting across into the car park , but it would nevertheless give the impression . |
| 8 | Someone pointed out that it would stop passers-by popping in to buy something . |
| 9 | GEC , Ferranti 's main British rival in radar , is also keen to mount a takeover bid but would encounter fierce Ministry of Defence opposition on the grounds that it would damage competition in electronics procurement . |
| 10 | The Taiwan stock market fell 3.3 per cent following the decision , which was not officially announced , while the Foreign Ministry criticized the bank 's intervention , saying that it would damage Taiwan 's year-old financial liberalization programme . |
| 11 | ‘ It must have occurred to you before you dropped your bombshell that it would distract Simon , ’ Vitor said , starting to pace up and down the confined space like an enraged tiger trapped in a too small cage . |
| 12 | Moreover , on July 28 Turkey announced that it would refuse permission for the use of Turkish bases to launch allied attacks against Iraq . |
| 13 | Moreover , Bismarck sold the idea of the Empire to the other states by saying that it would contain Prussia . |
| 14 | Struggling for a frame of reference , I calculate that it would contain Empire State Buildings . |
| 15 | What she did mind — minded quite horribly — was that it would upset Auntie Lou . |
| 16 | I had no idea what having a baby would mean , only that it would make escape from Roundhay impossible . |
| 17 | That it would make life a lot happier for Manningham if he closed the deal at the price offered . |
| 18 | It was just that it would make life a little easier . |
| 19 | If the public had been sickened by the carnage at the Olympic Stadium , the next spectacle to fill their television screens would be in such spectacular technicolor and DestructaVision that it would make Rambo look like a Disney movie . |
| 20 | It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track . |
| 21 | It would need to be flying with 70 per cent capacity to break even ; for every percent above that it would make $250,000 . |
| 22 | I mean , I do n't think anyone took any risks , and we were all wearing gloves anyway because of the state he was in — I would be worried that it would make people panic unnecessarily . |
| 23 | The Ramblers Association opposes privatisation on the grounds that it would threaten people 's " freedom to roam " . |
| 24 | The Mexican federal government announced on July 15 , 1989 , that it would commit $13,750,000 to " regenerate " Mexico 's rainforest over the following 10 years . |
| 25 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |
| 26 | The visit , formally approved by the Japanese Cabinet on Aug. 25 , was fiercely opposed by right-wing nationalists who feared that it would involve pressure upon the Emperor to apologise to the Chinese people for Japan 's brutal military intervention in the country between 1931 and 1945 . |
| 27 | Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts . |
| 28 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 29 | THE United Nations relief agency UNHCR said yesterday that it would send aid convoys to challenge a Serb blockade of thousands of starving Muslims trapped in eastern Bosnia . |
| 30 | The new party 's leader , journalist Mazhar Arif , said that it would ensure Iraq 's compliance with the 1972 Stockholm Declaration on environment and with " all principles for protecting the environment on both Arab and international levels " . |