Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [vb infin] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British nuclear industry 's best hope of capturing any slice of the export action would depend on the UK getting experience in building several PWR 's . |
| 2 | The debate on these options in Whitehall was one-sided , because the RAF wanted to maintain its hold on the deterrent and the Navy was still uncertain about what effect a take-over bid would have on the future size and shape of the Fleet . |
| 3 | The United States had earlier stated that US aid would depend on the elimination of anti-Semitism from the Romanian media . |
| 4 | However , the extent of the IDB 's investment would depend on the size of the company 's own investment , since the board simply ‘ tops up ’ the amount which a client firm invests . |
| 5 | But Labour 's deputy leader of the council , Alan Dean , said it was impossible to know what effect the level of government finance , pay settlements and competitive tendering would have on the council 's ability to guarantee jobs . |
| 6 | Each chapter would draw on the recent ‘ UK Environment ’ statistical report and add it where possible and appropriate . |
| 7 | A great deal would depend on the reforming zeal and liberal spirit of the man who became Home Secretary . |
| 8 | The insignificant proportion of men in the £3 — £9 range would appear on the face of things to betoken no handicraft beyond what would suffice to satisfy demand in a small hundred , while the many nils , amounting to very nearly one-third of the total , strongly suggests that many of the inhabitants of Walsingham were mendicants subsisting on the alms of the faithful . |
| 9 | Under the terms of the bill , a six-member committee would decide on the value of the land and there would be no right to appeal if the price was considered unfair . |
| 10 | Czechoslovak Prime Minister Marian Calfa declared on Feb. 5 that work would recommence on the basis of the so-called " C " scheme , which envisaged the diversion of Danube waters . |
| 11 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 12 | One might guess that a substantive discussion of this issue would centre on the question of linguistic performance : Danto ( 1960 ) suggested that we will do violence to the English language if machines achieve certain linguistic performances but we still refuse to deem them conscious . |
| 13 | Darlington Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg : His party 's campaign would focus on the health service , the economy and the need for Parliamentary reform . |
| 14 | Moreover , even the types of particles that exist in the universe would depend on the temperature . |
| 15 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 16 | She entered a cocoon from which a butterfly would emerge on the wedding night . |
| 17 | Every now and again a thrush would land on the ground exhausted , to be netted and put in with others in a cardboard box . |
| 18 | Tearing each other 's hair but of course the forewoman would come on the scene and she would settle it . |
| 19 | In earlier times the judge would rule on the sufficiency of the provocation , and the result of this was rather narrow and legalistic categories of sufficiency ( e.g. violence or finding a spouse in adultery were enough , but words or a confession of adultery were not ) . |
| 20 | So it looks as though the Government has given the council a cautious go-ahead to draw up a scheme if not to beat the Tay , then to lessen the disastrous effects another flood would have on the long suffering Perthshire population . |
| 21 | ‘ I know suspicion would fall on the Prince , Lord Gaveston , the French , or even the King . |
| 22 | At all three chosen sites — near the villages of Gwithian and Luxulyan and on military land at Nancekuke once used to store chemical weapons — there was immediate concern , particularly at the effect any sort of accident would have on the vital West Country tourist industry . |
| 23 | Success in war would depend on the ability of the generals , the courage of the troops , the nature of the battlefield , the numbers of the enemy and many other transient factors . |
| 24 | VP leaves it still as an open possibility that some sentences have more to their meaning than just the effect their truth would have on the evidence of our senses . |
| 25 | Erm so it 's a question of how one can best do it , but initially it would be er the onus would go on the individual to use the the spaces not designated as short stay . |
| 26 | A pool of molten fuel would form on the floor of the reactor during a meltdown . |
| 27 | The reason why I consulted my brief was because I am to visit the Young Vic shortly and I was not certain whether the hon. Gentleman would appear on the stage or in the audience on that occasion . |
| 28 | The Christmas Tree would arrive on the 6th December . |
| 29 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 30 | It is not certain , therefore , whether the rule in Quenerduaine v. Cole would apply , though on the whole I think it would , because I do not think that a court would speculate on the reasons that moved B to telegraph rather than write . |