Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The Ramblers ' Association would get more progress if they worked with us all the time . |
| 3 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ Labour would reverse this independence and are committed to taking both colleges back into county council control , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Labour would disrupt industrial peace by weakening the power of management and the courts . |
| 8 | Implicit in this analysis is the view that Labour would have little scope for raising additional revenue by further increases in income tax directed at the better-off . |
| 9 | Reports that Labour would enjoy increased support under my leadership have no bearing on this support . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If he had said Labour would put social justice before affluence , then we would have known where we were . |
| 12 | He and his girlfriend would organise meetings in the local Baptist hall and his girlfriend would play classical music on the piano . |
| 13 | ‘ Dëkuji , ’ she tried out a Czech thank-you to the man on Reception who sold her a stamp for three crowns and assured her her card would catch that day 's post . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His grand plans for a hero 's welcome disintegrated into a mass of fears over how the High Command would view this night . |
| 16 | Report after report issued under the aegis of British governments and parliaments of all flavours , as well as weighty learned institutions , have stressed that the balanced education of the future would put more emphasis on the numerate skills . |
| 17 | The Guardian did publish an article about Insurance Assessors who thought that AIDS would have little effect on the heterosexual population . |
| 18 | The number was extremely complicated so realising that completion would take some time , he took out advertisements a year before of the first performance and announced that bookings would be accepted for the unseen act . |
| 19 | Every elector would have one vote . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | My hon. Friend is right to say that we live in an increasingly competitive environment and that much in the social action programme would damage that competitiveness within the European Community — to the interests of the Japanese , the United States and our other competitors . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 25 | No one in his right mind would leave this city unless forced . ’ |
| 26 | Of course , you get what you pay for , and no-one in his right mind would expect this garment to wear or wash as long , or as well as , a fleece jacket of double the price . |
| 27 | In this case the Ring would use that person for its own ends and foul purposes . |
| 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 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |