Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think the speakers would give a better quality of sound if I moved them further apart ? ’ |
| 2 | It follows from this that stronger approaching gravitational waves would produce a shorter proper time between the collision and the subsequent horizon . |
| 3 | Development of this method to cope with other types of phrases would require a larger training set that included these phrase types . |
| 4 | The levels detected upstream in the Friends of the Earth study are broadly comparable to those measured by the ministry in samples nearer the coast - where official models would predict a higher amount of radioactivity . |
| 5 | A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 . |
| 6 | But ministers and party officials would prefer a later poll . |
| 7 | It was therefore hypothesised by Morgan , McDonald and MacDonald ( 1971 ) that subjects showing a predominance of left lateral eye movements in response to verbal and spatial questions would show a greater susceptibility to hypnosis than those with predominantly right lateral eye movements . |
| 8 | If suitable genes for gluten production could be added to British varieties , or if the genes in British wheat were made to produce more or better gluten , imports would be saved and farmers would get a higher price for a better quality wheat . |
| 9 | One of the least known owls in the world , very rarely reliably observed in the field ; upperparts buff with greyer wings and distinct golden collar ; Tawny Owl can be so pale that unfeathered toes of Hume 's are only really good distinction ; perhaps black-tipped crown feathers would show a darker crown in the field . |
| 10 | Furthermore , committees would have a better chance of identifying inefficient budget-output proposals . |
| 11 | Perhaps a herd of all-grey zebras would fare no better or worse where killers are concerned . |
| 12 | Local authorities would get a lower rate of grant the more they let spending rise above these levels . |
| 13 | At the same time it is no less obvious that the very purpose of criticism levelled at those who have the conduct of public affairs by their political opponents is to undermine public confidence in their stewardship and to persuade the electorate that the opponents would make a better job of it than those presently holding office . |
| 14 | It is possible , though very unlikely , that the courts would grant a further exception to the rule in Foss v. |
| 15 | As the first land-based creatures would need a tougher , armoured skin to protect them from their new environment , it is likely that these were the first amphibians . |
| 16 | According to the estate this is running at around £30,000 per annum and in addition to this , a survey that would take into account climbing as well as safety interests would cost a further £10,500 . |
| 17 | Many of these routes would get a lower E grade if Friends , nuts and chalk were used . |
| 18 | Increased telephone charges would raise a further DM2,000 million . |
| 19 | We both detested Katherine Mansfield and her whining , coarse letters , and we were aware that our private jokes and Ivyisms would look no better to outsiders than her Dickensianisms and her ‘ my strikes ! ’ . |
| 20 | The planners ' survey of the 24 incoming firms established in the New Town by 1973 indicated that these had expansion plans which would lead to the creation of a further 7000 jobs by 1991 and it was anticipated that additional in comers would provide a further 3000 jobs . |
| 21 | On 28 February UNTCOK stated that elections would proceed no later than 10 May 1948 . |
| 22 | It they had been right , matrilineal society would tend to have a lower level of technological development while patrilineal societies would have a higher level . |
| 23 | Thomas Fuller , writing in 1655 , had the answer : ‘ Grant them drained , and so continuing ; as now the great fishes therein prey on the less , so the wealthy men would devour the poorer sort of people … and rich men , to make room for themselves , would jostle the poor people out of their commons . ’ |
| 24 | The faster growth of money wages would mean a faster growth of product wages . |
| 25 | If the argument about opting out or not opting out was about whether our children would get a better education one way or another , then that 's a proper argument at it 's quite reasonable for there to be a democratic decision about it , but quite honestly that was n't what it was all about . |
| 26 | Changes in the parole system were promised so that serious offenders would serve a longer proportion of their time in jail . |
| 27 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 28 | On the contrary , a wide range of dispersal agents would allow a larger number of individuals to strip the tree of fruit at its prime and it would then be distributed to a wider range of habitats and be buffered against any disaster that might overcome the dispersal agent of a species relying on just one such agent . |
| 29 | If there have been changes in the journal coverage of the Science Citation Index over the period , such that some members of this limited set were not scanned prior to 1970 , say , then such earlier theses would show a lower frequency of citations in general , and the first citations of an author 's thesis could be missed , thus artificially increasing the average latency period . |