Example sentences of "the [noun pl] would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument was that crustal shortening within the continents would produce the same displacement of underlying layers , but the seas would be spread wider and therefore lower . |
| 2 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 3 | If these conditions prevailed in a public company , the shareholders would sack the board of directors out of hand , while in a private company , bankruptcy would soon occur . |
| 4 | In our example the courts would classify the condition of the house , " furnished , " as a jurisdictional fact . |
| 5 | The traditional position was that the courts would control the existence and extent of prerogative power , but not the manner of exercise thereof . |
| 6 | Their doubts arose from the inability to predict or control how the courts would use the power . |
| 7 | It is not clear whether the courts would take the same attitude in relation to a general disclosure in a discretionary customer agreement of the fact that the firm might sometimes act as principal . |
| 8 | The beauty of this strategy lay in the fact that , if the opening manoeuvre were successful , the Germans would take the French centre and right wing armies in rear , with the added bonus that these troops would then have to fight with their backs to their own line of fortifications along the German border . |
| 9 | He said his officers were confident the plans would meet the criteria . |
| 10 | The plans would become the absolute copyright of the Government , to choose from the several plans the whole or such parts as might be found desirable ; but the architects would not have the slightest claim to be employed in the execution of the works . |
| 11 | A letterpress accompanying the illustrations would give the work a scientific legitimacy that Audubon 's work as well as Lear 's had lacked . |
| 12 | The proposals would give the Office of Fair Trading extensive powers to investigate market conduct , along the lines of the powers exercised by DGIV , and to reach conclusions about fines or remedies . |
| 13 | Government officials committed themselves to ensuring that there would be no net loss of US wetlands and expressed the hope that the proposals would end the stalemate between environmentalist and business groups on the wetlands issue . |
| 14 | The Polytechnic 's case for retaining teacher education was based on four main arguments : that it was the only public sector institution of higher education in the Principality which provided the full integration of teacher education with the remainder of the higher education system ; that the proposals would leave the largest education authority in Wales employing the largest number of teachers , without involvement in teacher education ; that the Polytechnic had already stopped recruiting for the Certificate of Education course , in line with the DES policy of seeking an all-graduate profession , and in September 1976 had attracted the largest number of teacher-training students with a minimum of two GCE A levels in the Principality ; and that the Polytechnic was being called upon to make a disproportionate sacrifice because it would have to drop its Dip.HE/BEd. programme which was a basic component of a newly developed integrated system of degree courses . |
| 15 | The proposals would take the bypass to the south of the town , which would involve a major new road and two river crossings of the River Usk . |
| 16 | The proposals would undermine the principal effect of removing the ‘ subject to ’ opinion , which is to encourage better reporting of uncertainties in the financial statements themselves . |
| 17 | He lounged over on the studio lot to deliver the not very perspicacious remark that he was glad to have heard Khrushchev promise the Russians would surpass the Americans because competition was a capitalist idea . |
| 18 | The visitor from beyond the planets would obtain the impression that the Earth is a very peaceable place , when in fact three-quarters of all satellites launched have been controlled by military planners and virtually every country 's space programme was originated by the desire of war chiefs to develop rockets that would carry high explosives or nuclear bombs . |
| 19 | As long as there was a substantial number of people in each group , the groups would start the experiment having the same political preferences on average , since the groups were formed at random . |
| 20 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 21 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 22 | ‘ Maurice must have hoped the kidnappers would think the sequence had ended one earlier . |
| 23 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 24 | However the reference has been made to the characteristics of that boundary , and although the authorities would prefer the characteristics of the one which they now propose , they do not say that the characteristics of the tight boundary are ones which are unacceptable . |
| 25 | The bailiffs would seize the wagons , the stores , Thorpe Manor … their very furniture . |
| 26 | Before supper was served the Highlanders would offer the guests a display of their dancing . |
| 27 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 28 | By sticking to a glass of juice a day , removing skin from the chicken , and having three pieces of fruit in the evening instead of all the snacks would bring the calories down to 2,300 . |
| 29 | He fervently believed that if there was enough consultation the lists would solve the problems of children 's reading at a stroke . |
| 30 | The smuggling would continue and the evildoers would get the Huge Reward . |