Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |
| 2 | The lower scores women might get because of such characteristics would not amount to an absolute condition or requirement which the women failed to meet [ for that , refusal would have to be automatic if , say , someone did not have a bank account ] . |
| 3 | Nu said openly that , ‘ although the London agreement looked very well on paper he strongly suspected that HMG had first of all made sure that the frontier peoples would not agree to any form of union with Burma ’ . |
| 4 | The apparently extreme view expressed by Masterman ( 1987 ) may perhaps be the public perception of local-authority services as a whole , but equally many people working in schools would also subscribe to this view when discussing the local education authority 's administration of the education service . |
| 5 | Such units would still require to be served from a more fully equipped hospital or other establishment to ensure the availability of the appropriate service departments , catering , supplies , laundry ( including personal clothes laundry etc ) and especially the rehabilitation department with assessment and rehabilitation facilities . |
| 6 | Marx believed that these and other contradictions would eventually lead to the downfall of the capitalist system . |
| 7 | I know who the lads would rather listen to . ’ |
| 8 | Whether upper and lower date limits ( terminus results ) such as these provide the archaeologist with a sufficiently detailed chronological picture will depend on a number of factors — the nature of the site and sequence to be interpreted , the archaeological questions being posed , and the samples available for dating — and the relevant dating methods would then need to be assessed . |
| 9 | A Bulgaria which was a client of the Habsburg monarchy was a convincing refutation of the old view that independent Balkan nations would automatically look to Russia . |
| 10 | For this , those feminists , such as Finch and Groves ( 1983 ) , who espoused the cause of their older sisters , can take some credit , particularly in the challenge they threw down to those who assumed without question that such roles would naturally fall to women on their own . |
| 11 | The magazine 's line on such matters would also appear to be remote from , and distinctly harder than , that taken in its dying days by the Reagan Administration . |
| 12 | Many more sophisticated inductivists would not wish to be associated with some of the characteristics of my naive inductivism . |
| 13 | Sites would also need to be chosen so that , if wastes did escape , currents would not carry radioactive material too swiftly into zones of human activity . |
| 14 | The trap is easily avoided by selecting the problem the parents would most like to be rid of . |
| 15 | This so-called " realist " position was contrasted with the " maximalist " view that the development of political co-operation within the European Communities would eventually extend to all defence-related matters and render the WEU superfluous . |
| 16 | Wages rose about 9 per cent , although inflationary pressure meant that average settlements would probably rise to 12 per cent in 1991 . |
| 17 | Others insisted that the so-called toleration of new moralists would merely lead to licentiousness and hinder women 's real sexual freedom . |
| 18 | Calling the election a " success " , the United Kindgom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd , said on Sept. 16 that the UK would work for a progressive extension of democracy in Hong Kong , signalling that the UK might press China to revise the Basic Law under which the proportion of directly elected seats would gradually rise to half by 2007 . |
| 19 | Accepting such ideas would not lead to absurd consequences . |
| 20 | The existing users of the buildings would also have to be rehoused , although some of the taxmen are already set to move to Nottingham under the Civil Service 's dispersal programme . |
| 21 | This was a problem as some of the hospital buildings would readily convert to offices , but not so to flats . |
| 22 | The middle classes would not take to the streets with their own version of Class War . |
| 23 | Buyers would also have to be satisfied that their documents were in order . |
| 24 | A return for loss of use of the money is still required and if no return were made then buyers would not lend to the government and would lend elsewhere , for example . |
| 25 | The workers would rather stick to the status quo but know that an industrial tribunal would rule that the employer was forced to make the changes for supposedly sound economic reasons , and moreover had sought to agree financial compensation . |
| 26 | It would , it is true , convey the necessary information from the eye to the brain , but all the necessary computations would still remain to be done . |
| 27 | From it , the look-out man would send a smoke signal up through the chimney whenever a whale was offshore , and the fishermen would then take to their horrifyingly flimsy boats . |
| 28 | But , other things being equal , such financial transfers would ultimately lead to a real transfer of resources to the recipients of expenditure . |
| 29 | Some went to town on Bolivia 's planetary responsibility , warning that such barbarian customs would eventually lead to the flooding of New York and Miami and the extinction of the human race . |
| 30 | The USA would boost its presence with F-111 fighter aircraft at the US/NATO Incirlik airbase , where UK and French fighter planes would also continue to be based . |