Example sentences of "[vb pp] would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But all the men I 've met who I 've felt would make good fathers have invariably turned out to be men I could n't love … ’ |
| 2 | It was clear to the LSG that their success in getting Reagan 's radical programme adopted would require careful coalition building . |
| 3 | The Court held that compliance with the Extradition Treaty ( which specifically included murder as an extradictable offence ) by the United Kingdom in circumstances where the death sentence might be imposed would put that country in breach of the European Convention . |
| 4 | However , the courts have frequently recognised that businessmen do not share the lawyer 's desire for certainty , and that insistence that all terms be precisely agreed would prevent many business agreements being regarded as contracts at all . |
| 5 | But they say the repairs needed would cost three times that amount . |
| 6 | The beneficial effects of tax-haven status would undoubtedly attract more industry and jobs , while the wealth produced would help foreign exchange and increase VAT income on subsequent spendings . |
| 7 | Indeed a recent assessment of 137 at risk subjects using sigmoidoscopy predicted that all those affected would develop rectal polyps by 34 years of age . |
| 8 | This may sound obvious , but it is important to note that certain deferred debits and credits currently recognised would fail this test . |
| 9 | What is proposed would cause further damage . |
| 10 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |
| 11 | The plaintiff argued that the prior disclosure was irrelevant as the share sale agreement contained clauses stating that the warranties were given subject to the matters set out in the disclosure letter but that no other information whether actual , constructive or imputed would affect any claim made by the plaintiff or reduce any amount recoverable . |
| 12 | As the Law Commission recommended in 1976 , the test should be whether the granting of relief to an applicant who has delayed would cause substantial prejudice or hardship to any person or would be detrimental to good administration . |
| 13 | Ten weeks of fighting had achieved what Haig had calculated would take two days . |
| 14 | Would those 0.5 m. voters be able to cope sensibly with a list which if West German custom were followed would include twenty names ? — or for that matter with a list of 15 names or ten ? |
| 15 | Membership of a system of exchange rate parities which are fixed would involve considerable intervention in the underlying economy to maintain that fixity . |
| 16 | Indeed , the growing rift between the Soviet Union and China , which became public and final in 1963 , heralded the end of world bipolarity , something which it was hoped would give Western Europe more room to consider its own development . |
| 17 | The Ministry of the Interior , too anxious about the security implications of labour unrest to leave matters alone , experimented from 1901–03 with police-run labour organizations which it was hoped would divert working-class energy from political towards economic and cultural aims . |
| 18 | One of the Penge termini was to be at the top of Anerley Hill , by the Crystal Palace , then in use as a large exhibition centre , which it was hoped would attract much traffic to the trams . |
| 19 | Specifically the committees have the following functions : ( a ) To examine the estimates put forward by the department in question , to examine the policy objectives underlying these and consider whether the expenditure incurred would achieve these objectives in an economical manner . |
| 20 | One idea being canvassed would centralise all research under the science and technology ministry and its powerful minister , Heinz Risenhuber . |
| 21 | These are big differences , and if confirmed would indicate that bone breakage could be a powerful tool in distinguishing between predator assemblages . |
| 22 | The price paid would include any consideration the employer receives from a third party . |
| 23 | Studies by government , public relations consultants and opinion polls could established whether constructions of the nature suggested would attract firm enquiries sufficient to justify the initial funding . |
| 24 | Say how the alternative system you have described would promote individualised care in your work area . |