Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lump-sum specific grant would change the budget line to 145 . |
| 2 | But games companies seem convinced that only the odd tomboy would enjoy the shoot outs and punch-ups of the average game . |
| 3 | And inside , the rat finds things out — though Christ knows how , no-one in their right mind would pass the time of day with him — and reports back to The Man . ’ |
| 4 | No one in his right mind would call the Delinquents a memorable piece of work . |
| 5 | In 1956 two American physicists , Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang , suggested that the weak force does not in fact obey the symmetry P. In other words , the weak force would make the universe develop in a different way from the way in which the mirror image of the universe would develop . |
| 6 | Of the seats where the Liberal Democrats are second , there are 16 where Labour is a poor third and a switchover by the bulk of the Labour vote would give the Lib Dems victory . |
| 7 | At later hearings he defended this decision quite vigorously , saying that the narrow boat would remain the basic unit on an improved canal as being the most convenient for loading the collecting areas , all served by narrow canals . |
| 8 | The Bill provides that a Scottish Parliament would have the right to vary upwards or downwards from the United Kingdom 's established level of personal income tax . |
| 9 | If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back . |
| 10 | I ask my hon. Friend to think of any reason why detailing the savage discrimination of the MacSharry proposals and their impact on Scottish agriculture would weaken the Minister 's hand when negotiating . |
| 11 | Virgin Group is expected to abandon its plan to run a train service in competition with British Rail ; the charges that would be imposed by British Rail would prevent the scheme from being commercially viable . |
| 12 | Mr Knapp said he hoped British Rail would recognise the anger among its 130,000 workers , but added : ‘ The board is in danger of making the same mistake as in 1989 of underestimating the mood of its workforce . ’ |
| 13 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 14 | In a letter to Mr Major last night , Mr Smith accused the Prime Minister of giving no good reason why the legal opinion on the Maastricht legislation should not be published or why it overturned the view from the Foreign Office during the last 10 months that a vote in favour of the social chapter would wreck the treaty . |
| 15 | Similarly , the announcement on 8 March 1962 of the composition of the National Directorate of the ORI , which revealed that the Communist old guard would have the upper hand , was countered three weeks later by the denunciation of Anibal Escalante for ’ sectarianism' , a measure which forced the Soviet Union to take a stand . |
| 16 | The NGC spokesman said the council 's decision meant the public inquiry would consider the siting of the substation , a matter originally not on the agenda . |
| 17 | People who were incredibly enthusiastic at first dropped out because they thought the language barrier would be a major problem , even though they were assured that an English-speaking teacher would accompany the children . |
| 18 | Although the government would admit that in the short term a rise in aggregate demand stimulated by government fiscal policy would raise employment and output ( quantity ) , in the longer term such fiscal relaxation would raise the rate of inflation ( price ) and not quantity ; money GDP ( price × quantity ) would be rising but not output . |
| 19 | One or two applications of French polish would do the trick . |
| 20 | Dr Runcie denied his vision of a universal primacy would affect the Queen 's position under the British constitution , which lays down that the monarch must be a Protestant . |
| 21 | If the Court of Session could make an order of the same nature , it was better to resort to its jurisdiction ; if it would not make such an order , the English court would hesitate the more before seeking to make an order to be effective in Scotland . |
| 22 | Perhaps that was the only case that fell through the net , and I hope that it was an isolated case , but I should be grateful if my right hon. Friend would examine the matter and if necessary ensure that such a thing is not allowed to happen again . |
| 23 | However , another group of people have equally strongly held views , and for that reason it is not as easy as my hon. Friend would have the House believe to introduce legislation that would command total respect in the House . |
| 24 | If there were such a mechanism , if a cloud resembling a weasel or a camel could give rise to a lineage of other clouds of roughly the same shape , cumulative selection would have the opportunity to get going . |
| 25 | As Anita Mason shows , Simon Peter must at first have been thoroughly convinced that the world would literally end with Jesus 's death — that an apocalyptic holocaust would consume the whole of creation , that upheavals such as those recounted by Old Testament prophets would sweep the earth , that God would descend to pronounce stern judgement . |
| 26 | It is hoped that study of supply side aspects of macro-economic behaviour would increase the relevance of the model to the researchers ' studies of problems which are at the moment ill-fitted to discuss . |
| 27 | I might have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would draw the attention of the House to his views on the two new clauses , but I do not recall him even mentioning them . |
| 28 | The right conditions for economic growth are low taxes , the right hon. Gentleman wants high taxes ; low inflation , the right hon. Gentleman would engender high inflation ; and good labour relations , the right hon. Gentleman would reintroduce the old , bad trade union practices . |
| 29 | I should have hoped that the hon. Gentleman would respect the principle of academic autonomy . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman would address the problem more accurately were he to acknowledge that fact . |