Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisive action would exacerbate existing evils and undermine Britain 's strength . |
| 2 | Bullock , following suggestions in S. G. Raybould 's recent book , The English Universities and Adult Education , argued that the universities should stick to Tutorial and preparatory-Tutorial Classes , leaving the WEA as the country 's main provider of less advanced courses in liberal studies ; for this expanded role , the Association would require increased government aid to finance additional full-time posts and would also need to ‘ get rid of those characteristics to which its critics have often pointed … conservatism , parochialism and class-consciousness ’ . |
| 3 | Each side would like mutual disarmament , but will be deterred from making any move in that direction by the belief that the other side would cheat , and thereby gain an arms advantage . |
| 4 | Then , the theory runs , the Meyer stalking horse would bring serious challengers like Mr Michael Heseltine into the race . |
| 5 | Labour would face strong pressure from the Unionists to give Northern Ireland what it is giving to Scotland , where there is also a separatist minority . |
| 6 | On the whole , women trade unionists agreed that the withdrawal of female labour would benefit male wages with the additional advantage that working class homes would be better ordered and managed . |
| 7 | Labour would disrupt industrial peace by weakening the power of management and the courts . |
| 8 | Reports that Labour would enjoy increased support under my leadership have no bearing on this support . |
| 9 | Bray said the Government had starved British science of resources and pledged that Labour would increase civil research and development ‘ as quickly as possible ’ from 1.8 per cent of GDP to 2.5 per cent . |
| 10 | Further , it is unlikely that simply asking people whether they have an equal division of domestic labour would produce accurate results , given the obvious temptation to exaggerate one 's own contribution to the household . |
| 11 | Labour would implement environmentally-progressive policies and press for reductions and possibly cancellations in third world debt . |
| 12 | Labour would introduce green measures . |
| 13 | If he had said Labour would put social justice before affluence , then we would have known where we were . |
| 14 | He and his girlfriend would organise meetings in the local Baptist hall and his girlfriend would play classical music on the piano . |
| 15 | For example , it is unlikely that a Banking dictionary would have sufficient coverage to aid the recognition of medical texts , regardless of how suitable the collocations were . |
| 16 | In Mainz an ordinance of 1788 announced that the elector would give general audiences every Monday at precisely 4 o'clock in the afternoon : at these every inhabitant of the electorate was entitled to attend and present in person any grievance he might have . |
| 17 | In any case , others have doubted that this type of thinking would make worthwhile savings and have countered that ‘ … we should allocate resources according to the probability that a patient will benefit rather than his or her age ’ , and that ‘ physiology not age should determine care ’ . |
| 18 | Officials at Ford allegedly predicted the number of severe burn injuries and deaths that would result from the defect , and estimated that the cost of repairing the car would exceed anticipated court settlements . ’ |
| 19 | It follows that if a contractor can demonstrate that the resources available and those intended for use on site would enable the works to be finished early , the contractor would have good grounds for claiming reimbursement of additional costs if he or she was thwarted by the client 's delay . |
| 20 | The curiosity is that the programme would give western hands much power over the reshaping of the Soviet economy . |
| 21 | Mr Gallie , who is sponsoring the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill , to outlaw carrying knives in public , has asked Lord James Douglas Hamilton , the Scottish home affairs minister , for his comments and to inquire if such a television programme would contravene European law . |
| 22 | Izvestiya warned that the Civic Union 's programme would cause spiralling inflation which could only be broken by " strict , consistent monetary-credit and financial policy , the policy from which the government is retreating under pressure " . |
| 23 | The Quarter Sessions recorder found that the volume was obscene because its indiscriminate circulation would injure public morals , but he considered that the defendant 's actions were redeemed by his innocent motive . |
| 24 | The National Union of Mineworkers says closure would devastate local communities . |
| 25 | In their quest to reduce costs , however , the Railfreight managers were keen to explore every way of streamlining their operations , and in the case of Severn Tunnel Junction it was found that total closure would bring substantial savings for relatively little inconvenience . |
| 26 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 27 | An increase in regional aid would benefit other countries far more than us and would drive up our net contribution to the budget . |
| 28 | The Government 's own inquiries have repeatedly found that cutting the free limit for legal aid would do serious damage to the whole legal aid scheme . |
| 29 | The Forestry Commission expressed the hope that the study would generate wide debate but stressed that it had no competence to formulate overall forestry policy , which was a matter for the government . |
| 30 | The manager of the branch concerned could not possibly pay the cheque , but , since the Ingard group has many small investors and its collapse would have wide repercussions , he at once referred it to the board . |