Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point in the tale most readers would expect a tragi- heroic ending , and indeed in the hands of Rider Haggard or Masefield this would almost certainly have been the case . |
| 2 | Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement . |
| 3 | ‘ If we were talking about tuition fees , not maintenance , then talking about serious disincentives would carry a great deal of weight , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Sometimes an expedition under orders from the Sibirskii prikaz ( Siberian Department ) in Moscow would be the first to penetrate into a region ; at other times hunters and traders would investigate a new river system on their own , later reporting their success to the local military governor ( voevoda ) , who would then penetrate the region asserting government control over the inhabitants . |
| 5 | If the islands where they lived did contain strong jawed predators , such as hyaenas , their heads would make a crunchy snack . |
| 6 | Smith conceded that higher taxes on big cars would have a harmful effect on the UK 's motor industry , hurting Jaguar in particular , which is already suffering a severe fall in demand . |
| 7 | The plans for devolution put forward by the other parties would have a grave impact not just on Scotland and Wales , but also on England . |
| 8 | The parties would have a secondary opportunity to ask questions of any witnesses and to make submissions on the law . |
| 9 | Any would-be drivers would need a full driving licence , a full passport and three weeks to spare . |
| 10 | Any animal that could detect these waves would have a reliable indicator of weather changes ahead . |
| 11 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 12 | The researchers conclude that this may in time result in a depleted population of effectively " domesticated " rhinos , and warn that losing the genetic input of the wilder rhinos would have a dangerous impact on the gene pool . |
| 13 | Under this ‘ simulated market ’ , districts would receive a population-based allocation and would pass this allocation ‘ down to GPs in the form of notional budgets for hospital and community health services ; GPs would exercise choice , as in the model of Maynard et al ; but that choice would be made against the notional budget , where GPs stand neither to lose nor to gain financially from how their actual use of services compares with their budget ’ ( Bevan , 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Either of these two formulations would require a transcendental knowing subject and would constitute knowledge as a special phenomenon abstracted from the material level of human action . |
| 15 | More often it is not , for administrators would have a manoeuvrable teacher , and any form of specialisation decreases manoeuvrability . |
| 16 | The consequences of erecting barriers — even if we could do that — to produce and use fuel at a price that we could achieve only if we erected those barriers would have a direct effect on the cost of power . |
| 17 | More NMDA sites would mean a postsynaptic cell more responsive to glutamate and hence more likely to fire . |
| 18 | And pure substances tailored to neurotransmitter sites would have a good chance of being free of unpleasant side effects elsewhere in the body . |
| 19 | On Poland , an arrangement was made whereby the Communists would form a joint administration with elements of the London government-in-exile , but this did not prevent the country 's long-term domination by Moscow . |
| 20 | Some companies would prefer a disorganised and confused auditor . |
| 21 | Merrill Lynch found only a minority of companies would take a tough line — only one in seven firms would start to charge the current rate of interest and one in six would apply pressure on the employee to reduce the price of the old house in order to sell it . |
| 22 | Should it become easier to acquire companies in the Community by a decrease in barriers to takeovers , UK companies would have a comparative advantage , as UK companies enjoy a relatively accessible source of equity finance through the large amount of stockmarket capitalisation . |
| 23 | Owners of companies nationalized in 1946-62 which had become part of larger companies would have a prior right to subscribe for shares . |
| 24 | Truck companies would like a simple sixty mile an hour limit for all lorries . |
| 25 | During 1992 the Andean Pact countries would adopt a joint tariff policy for trade with the rest of the world , and subsequent measures of integration would include joint export promotion , equal commercial aviation rights and access to airport facilities , reforms of state administration and the encouragement of foreign investment . |
| 26 | Some regions and countries would have a comparative advantage , either because they were sparsely populated or because they cared less about the smell of a rubbish dump than their more pernickety neighbours did . |
| 27 | Although the Australians thought this was purely a morale-boosting ploy , in thick cover over difficult terrain or at night , the commandos would use a similar tactic with good reason — as no doubt the Japanese did — in distinguishing friend from foe . |
| 28 | Any different thickness of blockwork or hollow blocks would have a different rate . |
| 29 | Two small filters in the back corners would give a symmetrical look , as well as allowing you to clean them in rotation to minimise loss of bacteria . |
| 30 | Several different coloured moon cushions would make a gorgeous present and it is fun sometimes to knit something different . |