Example sentences of "that would [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yon Balberith is reet big orrid ruffy beast wi gurt black beard full o rats and green teeth gnashing and a grinding and flames coming out o bum that 'd take wallpaper off front parlor . |
| 2 | It remains a Soviet priority to dissuade the ASEAN states from taking the final step that would transform ASEAN into a Western-sponsored security system . |
| 3 | Moreover , in the light of the Americans ' deep-seated anti-colonialism , neutrality was the most that could be hoped for in the problems that would face Britain in converting her Empire into the Commonwealth at a prudent and realistic pace . |
| 4 | In his letter to Congressmen , Admiral Trost added that if the budget cuts were sustained ‘ there will be a catastrophic impact on the Trident programme ’ that would involve losses of nuclear deterrent capability ‘ for many years ’ . |
| 5 | In some areas , most notably the liturgical and the ecumenical , Rome did get off to a good start in providing directives of a sort that would carry confidence at least temporarily ; even here , however , there was the inherent problem that a body of directives implied the establishment of a stable state ( e.g. in ecumenical relations ) , while the reality was in fact necessarily more fluid . |
| 6 | I note that the hon. Gentleman wishes to introduce measures that would cost jobs in Britain . |
| 7 | I did not think £9 too much for a fine steak , or £150 too much for the sort of weekend that would cost £200 in Edinburgh or London . |
| 8 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 9 | It was that sort of attitude that would prevent Craig from coming to her directly for help . |
| 10 | The Rebbe has told Israeli followers to vote against left-wing parties that would cede land to the Palestinians — an action he maintains would be militarily disastrous . |
| 11 | It could simply be a requirement for a bond or an insurance policy that would ensure repayment for depositors in the event of a collapse . |
| 12 | They talk of significant investment in a company that would start life with over 500 employees . |
| 13 | Among them is one that would lift restrictions on the voting rights of shares . |
| 14 | A bargaining position was established that would draw attention to the needs of the lowest paid workers , and , hopefully , lead to a reasonable wage settlement . |
| 15 | It had to be a safe name , innocuous , nothing that would draw attention to the past . |
| 16 | For this purpose , ‘ contingent liabilities ’ includes all transactions guaranteeing , underwriting , or pledging assets as collateral security for , obligations of a third party and ‘ commitments ’ includes every irrevocable commitment that would give rise to a credit risk . |
| 17 | Folly did n't want to encourage the sort of speculation that would give rise to — especially when she was so near to taking over as boss . |
| 18 | It is ushering a bill through the Diet ( parliament ) that would give shareholders with 3% or more of a company the right to inspect its management accounts ; at the moment they need 10% . |
| 19 | Marking his way carefully to the door that would give entry to the parcels office , he shone his torch around him . |
| 20 | Following an appeal by UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar for a cease-fire over civilian-populated areas , this was accepted by both sides and the secretary-general now sought to widen it into something that would give effect to the Security Council resolutions , call for an end to the fighting altogether . |
| 21 | He persuaded the Board in 1970 to recognise that a new kind of qualification was now required , one that would give status to the more ‘ creative ’ approach to drama in schools . |
| 22 | No matter what reservations Churchill might have entertained about the Atlantic Charter and whether or not freedom was meant to apply to colonial territories , the unworthiness of France to return to Indochina was soon to become one of Roosevelt 's fixed ideas on colonialism and an issue that would bedevil relations between all the Allied powers in Southeast Asia with the possible and ironic exception of the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 24 | The aim was to use the wealth from one natural resource , to fund a system that would return Mexico to self-sufficiency in basic foods . |
| 25 | When Harold Smith , the brother of F.E. , was asked for advice in organization by Huddersfield Unionists , he delivered them a lecture on Liverpool methods , and in the following year they elected F.E. Smith as their President to carry through reforms that would make Huddersfield like Liverpool . |
| 26 | When he came in the evening — it was by this time unthinkable that there should be an evening when he did not come — he might let slip something that would make sense of this new move . |
| 27 | ‘ I really just wanted to see somebody who had done some heinous crimes and find out if there was anything different about him that would throw light on demon possession , that type of thing , ’ he says . |
| 28 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 29 | ‘ Are you suggesting that Barney made up his mind to kill Angy and cold-bloodedly chose a method that would throw suspicion on someone else ? |
| 30 | The dispute , which has been simmering for years , came to the boil in April when Michael Harcourt , the province 's premier , revealed a scheme that would protect 33% of the region , permit limited logging in 17% , and open the rest to extensive ( although , at least in theory , well-managed ) timber harvesting . |