Example sentences of "[noun pl] would have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 The parties would have a secondary opportunity to ask questions of any witnesses and to make submissions on the law .
4 Any animal that could detect these waves would have a reliable indicator of weather changes ahead .
5 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 .
6 More often it is not , for administrators would have a manoeuvrable teacher , and any form of specialisation decreases manoeuvrability .
7 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 .
8 And pure substances tailored to neurotransmitter sites would have a good chance of being free of unpleasant side effects elsewhere in the body .
9 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 .
10 Owners of companies nationalized in 1946-62 which had become part of larger companies would have a prior right to subscribe for shares .
11 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 .
12 Any different thickness of blockwork or hollow blocks would have a different rate .
13 The Chomskian might advance the speculative thesis that any mutation causing children to search immediately in the right class of grammars would have a great selective advantage , and that such evolutionary change might well have taken place , producing human beings who are now pre-programmed to process linguistic data in a specific way .
14 Patients and their carers would have a realistic choice freed from fears of favouritism and unfair influence .
15 From the start of welfare provision for the disabled it was recognized that social workers would have a key role to play in putting the handicapped in touch with the provision available .
16 Despite being an ignoramus , the dealer who lasted even a matter of weeks would have a certain animal intelligence , as well as the true smooth operator 's knack of twisting information to support the argument his firm insisted he presented .
17 The Law Commission , which first suggested the introduction of the AJR , contemplated that applicants would have a free choice between the two procedural paths in cases where both were available on the facts of the case .
18 Many of the genes in a family might have to be converted to a new variant before any significant change in the phenotype occurs-but by that time all individuals would have a similar proportion of the new variant and so would be physically very similar .
19 In particular , the art trade fears that the exclusion of precious metals would have a devastating effect on the silver market .
20 The changes would have a detrimental effect on bus passengers .
21 They hereby accepted the three main demands of the SDLP — minority rights would be guaranteed , nationalists would have a meaningful role in the administration and ‘ there would be a recognition of the desire by the nationalist community to forge closer and more visible links with the Irish Republic ’ .
22 Owner occupiers account for 23pc of households and the inclusion of work to their properties would have a beneficial effect on the overall scheme , members heard .
23 We will outside the erm the supporting it if it was n't for the fact that we understand that the officers would have a great deal of difficulty spending that money .
24 With both in the Peninsula , however , the insurgents would have a major advantage .
25 There would be two effects : the dependent financial relationships between husbands and wives would be considerably loosened , and unmarried women with dependants would have a substantial non-means-tested income as of right .
26 According to a pre-Budget survey of Scotland 's top 300 companies , carried out by System 3 for the accountancy firm , Ernst & Young , 72 per cent of respondents think that a further cut in business rates would have a favourable effect on their company , though , surprisingly , 4 per cent believe it would have an adverse impact .
27 Furthermore a student who had a fragile grasp of particular concepts and skills would have a reduced chance of getting much further in a graduated test scheme .
28 Diana , revealing her iron will , decreed her sons would have a love-filled childhood .
29 If the island fell the Germans would have a free hand throughout the area .
30 It was assumed that shareholders would have a long-term commitment to their company and that if there was a problem , it would be the directors rather than the shareholders who would change .
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