Example sentences of "[det] would [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 2 | Within 20° of the centre ( 3kpc ) , plots for both HI and CO similar to Fig. 4 show a decline in the maximum velocities with decreasing longitude ; this would arise naturally if gas were largely excluded from the central 3kpc . |
| 3 | One might assume that this would mean necessarily that the C. and A.G. audited all the Health Authorities . |
| 4 | This would matter little if decision-making positions were occupied by women possessed of the requisite linguistic knowledge , but unfortunately for all of us , they are not . |
| 5 | This would matter less if the rest of the year looked easy . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the person who discovers a lump under their skin but is too frightened to go to the doctor lest he diagnose cancer will be perpetuating the threatening situation — and this would hold even if the lump was in fact benign . |
| 7 | This would put less than 10p on the production cost of a musicassette selling for more than £5 in the shops . |
| 8 | And this would increase exponentially if a further maximum set followed . |
| 9 | Increasing workload within the same length of working day : this would again produce poorer responses for lexicographers but in addition batch processes would be requested more frequently and this would require either that they run during normal working hours or that Computer Services staff would need to work more unsocial hours . |
| 10 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 11 | Some would go further and argue that the wide-ranging emphasis of records of achievement on recording a great variety of skills and personal qualities , as well as specific attainments , is a reenactment of the old elementary school concern with civic virtue and Godliness as well as basic competence in the ‘ three R's ’ ( Hargreaves , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , some would go further and criticize the liberal variant of normativism on the ground that that doctrine is based on what might be called ‘ the Rationalist Fallacy ’ in political thinking ; that human beings act on rational motives . |
| 13 | Some would argue even that she casts a heavy shadow over present negotiations on the political future of South Africa . |
| 14 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |
| 15 | But er yes that would go anywhere that would n't it ? |
| 16 | Mrs Banham and her husband Andy , a roof tiler , considered going private , but that would cost more than £1,250 , and since their other son , one-year-old Ross , needs the same operation they really can not afford it . |
| 17 | She claimed the decision not to use secondary teachers was because that would take longer than the Scottish Office was prepared to wait . |
| 18 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 19 | Most people , I think , would now agree that contempt for science did n't do Britain any good , and most would go further and admit that it is absurd to grow up ignorant of science in a world dominated by its theories and their application . |