Example sentences of "[det] would [vb infin] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This would matter less if the rest of the year looked easy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This would put less than 10p on the production cost of a musicassette selling for more than £5 in the shops . |
| 6 | And this would increase exponentially if a further maximum set followed . |
| 7 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She claimed the decision not to use secondary teachers was because that would take longer than the Scottish Office was prepared to wait . |
| 10 | 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 . |