Example sentences of "[vb base] it would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 2 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 3 | After the many modifications subsequently made to his scheme , the STV as we know it would ensure the subservience of all of them . |
| 4 | Behind Psychic TV exists an occult , disparate breed of hipsters heavily into Gary Glitter , early Sabbath , Arthur Brown , Grateful Dead just because they know it would scandalize the prevailing arbiters of taste . |
| 5 | I believe it would meet the need which Mr has quite properly identified . |
| 6 | Her supporters believe it would force the government to reexamine their deportation procedures . |
| 7 | Opponents of the MTO claim it would institutionalise the primacy of free trade over environmental protection and make it easier to challenge high national standards on environmental protection as unfair barriers to trade . |
| 8 | Proponents argue it would stabilise the pound and save Mr Lawson from resorting to the conventional answer to a currency crisis : a big emergency increase in interest rates . |
| 9 | Explain why you chose each type of window , and why you think it would show the goods to best advantage . |
| 10 | Sir I would just , I think it would help the panel if you will refer to table seventeen of erm N Y six which actually sets out these sites . |
| 11 | The families we who 've used our arts centres in other parts of the country have been influenced erm not just by the quality of art work on display , but also by the fact they can get decent beer and erm good , cheap food erm and the children and the other parts of the family have got plenty of other activities to take an interest in and I think it would need the university to think seriously about developing the social side of the Gardener Centre in those terms , and that 's why it was deeply disappointing to find the university pulling back on their subsidy for the Gardener Centre as that really ca n't help anybody find the most appropriate role for the building . |
| 12 | I know authors say they prefer to let their work speak for them , but I hardly think it would harm the integrity of the book to know a little something about the man , such as that he is forty-two , married to American academic Antonia Phillips , with two children , Louis and Jacob , and that he has what he calls a ‘ middle-aged obsession ’ with competitive games , particularly tennis . |