Example sentences of "[noun sg] it would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 But under section 83(1) the building society , if rectification were ordered , would have what seems to me to be an unimpeachable statutory right to an indemnity against the loss it would thereby suffer .
2 Thus , by the very beginning of 1947 , and well before ‘ containment ’ , the Marshall plan and the Zhdanov doctrine drew the battle lines between Russia and the US in Europe and in general it may be seen that a framework of impressions , intentions , hopes and misunderstandings was being thrown up which would support US policy towards Vietnam for the next 20 years and under whose weight it would ultimately collapse .
3 If the Beast were a car it would probably have to complete with the Land Rover .
4 If this stuff was a car it would now require an MOT .
5 Botswana is just one country whose only daily paper is owned and run by the government , without whose assistance it would probably have no national paper at all .
6 Erm so perhaps with a degree it would only take maybe three years
7 If the terms of redemption merely provided for their redemption at par , their holders would be highly vulnerable ; for if interest rates fell since the date of issue it would clearly pay the company to redeem them and to borrow money at a lower rate of interest than the fixed dividend .
8 Well if there was a meeting of the town council it would perhaps start at eight o'clock .
9 He 'd show her , and even if she did n't appreciate the work it would perhaps give him a moment to think , to recover his poise .
10 After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that .
11 Collie Curran is n't one for taking solace in moral victories , but he said : ‘ Had we had a full team it would certainly have been much closer .
12 None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot .
13 When Bobby Jones and Alistair Mackenzie designed the course , they could have scarcely envisaged what a shrine it would eventually become .
14 At this point it would automatically have been sensitive enough to pick up airborne vibrations of sufficient loudness and/or sufficient nearness of origin .
15 If it had been the house and the body it would surely have referred not to digging a woodland grave but to digging in an animal cemetery .
16 If a newspaper commissioned a political poll based on the opinion of a single person it would immediately become a laughing-stock .
17 In the case of a two-dimensional spherical surface it would simply reproduce the sphere .
18 Peking said it would not persecute Mr Yang if he was returned to the mainland , a clear sign it would strongly disapprove of Hong Kong not returning him .
19 If things go wrong the centre can not , rescue or support the falling unit — like a dead apple it would simply drop off the tree .
20 At one time the local authority would have provided only one library service — the public library — and if a school did have its own library it would probably have been administered by the public library .
21 Afterwards , it can be tidied around with heavier and more direct pastel to give it the definition it would otherwise lack .
22 Surely that 'll bring people back into the theatre it would obviously pay the artist it would also bring money into the theatre if the theatre could actually charged for them to do them .
23 Surely that 'll bring people back into the theatre it would obviously pay the artist it would also bring money into the theatre if the theatre could actually charged for them to do them .
24 There is an obvious danger that such a body might well adopt an excessively narrow focus by concentrating on such issues as effectiveness and consistency in sentencing , in which case it would simply perpetuate the present disjuncture between sentencing and penal policy .
25 In any case it would soon become common knowledge .
26 if the Convention were deemed to supplant the Federal Rules as the governing law on discovery from a litigant , in this case it would entirely deprive plaintiffs of a major tool of discovery against [ the defendant ] .
27 And as long as you did n't choose something that had a very bad dye , in which case it would all run , but mostly it was very light , it was easy to wear , even easy to clean , so it was an immensely popular fabric .
28 ‘ It 'll get better in time , ’ she said , although even as she spoke , she knew that in ha own case it would never get better .
29 By spreading power across a wider spectrum it would also make it less likely that any one region , such as Scotland , would find itself being governed by a party that it had rejected by huge margins at the polls .
30 On the contrary it would merely increase their anxiety level , even if there was nothing to worry about .
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