Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has warned any offensive ground action would involve more than 100,000 men and lead to heavy casualties . |
| 2 | ‘ Our horse would get there before they do . ’ |
| 3 | But the danger was that the pound would fall further than planned , said Mr Payne . |
| 4 | Such a programme would involve more than one local authority department ; in this case the social services department and the housing department . |
| 5 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 6 | Bush dismissed the move as an attempt by the Iraqi leader to regroup his overwhelmed forces , and stated that the allies would continue to press the ground war " with undiminished intensity " , emphasising that the fighting would stop only if Iraqi forces " lay down their arms " . |
| 7 | The second effect would appear earlier than the first and would be manifest by a reduction of survival time — the interval between diagnosis of cancer ( incidence date ) and death . |
| 8 | The report added that the study had only considered 35-64 year-olds , and that " the estimated effect would increase dramatically if older age groups were included in the analysis " . |
| 9 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 10 | Lucille thought the girl and the cavalry officer made a very fine couple , but she wished the girl would smile rather than hold her face in such a cold and supercilious expression . |
| 11 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 12 | In one moment of combined panic and acceptance she knew that the telephone would stay exactly where it was . |
| 13 | A fourth round of Premiers ' talks was due to be held in Pyongyang , the North Korean capital on Feb. 25-28 , 1991 , although the South 's refusal to cancel the next Team Spirit exercise ( due to begin in January ) made it unclear whether this meeting would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 14 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 15 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 16 | That is , whether spaced out advertising — the " drip " — over a long period would work better than heavy advertising , the " burst " , concentrated into a short space of time . |
| 17 | Many fewer lawsuits would be started because a plaintiff would sue only if he had a clear right to win , in which case the prospective defendant would never defend but would pay instead . |
| 18 | In the early stages it became apparent that the conference would go further than Kerekou had anticipated in discussion of future political reforms . |
| 19 | If she had n't known her twin better , Dana 's mask of sophistication could have wounded her deeply , particularly when she persisted in being so sure that Roman would do exactly as she wished . |
| 20 | Mahathir said that the formation of such a group would benefit rather than stifle world trade . |
| 21 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 22 | The hard look doctrine therefore represents a shift from a previously more minimal standard of review , where judicial intervention would occur only if there was irrationality , to one where the courts will interfere where the broader list of defects set out above are present . |
| 23 | Lauren , 29 , says : ‘ More business would come here if we had a proper exhibition and conference centre and the right facilities out at the airport . ’ |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman would do better if he chose his targets with more precision . |
| 25 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 26 | And the overshadowing would matter less if the roof were made of glass . ’ |
| 27 | She almost ran from the room , as if afraid that her newly found resolve would melt away if she did not immediately put it into practice . |
| 28 | A former Labour Prime Minister got that far in his thinking in the 1970s when he pointed out that one could not have high inflation and lots of employment and that high inflation would reduce rather than increase the number of jobs . |
| 29 | However , once a hunting group acquired females and retained its cooperative , more egalitarian social structure , immense benefits in terms of natural selection would follow mainly because survival — and therefore evolutionary fitness — would be greatly enhanced for all , in contrast to the previous foraging way of life with its great limitations on mutual support , its dietary individualism , lack of home-bases , poor nutrition and so on . |
| 30 | Filippo would know better than me if either of them have been here . ’ |