Example sentences of "that any [noun] would [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of Krushchev 's confrontation tactics ( on 11 November 1959 he threatened to negotiate a separate peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic if the Western powers did not withdraw their troops within six months ) had forced him to moderate his stance , and it was apparent that the Soviet Union would minimise the chances of an agreement on Berlin if it simultaneously pressed hard everywhere else , thereby exacerbating Washington 's fears that any concession would be interpreted by Khrushchev as a sign of weakness . |
| 2 | The issue of selecting an NSF candidate for the ( as yet unannounced ) presidential elections was not resolved when it emerged that any candidate would be required to endorse Roman 's programme . |
| 3 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 4 | The penis as sales tool , or how to get head in advertising : right , the creamiest milk chocolate advert in the world and , left , a lipstick that any man would be proud of |
| 5 | Not that any man would be interested in me with a handicap like Mum . |
| 6 | The branch was left in no doubt that any breakaway would be boycotted by the trade union movement . |
| 7 | In terms of the revenue output it 's a hundred and forty three thousand below the estimates and it was agreed that any variations would be carried over into next year . |
| 8 | The intention is that any change would be revenue-neutral , but the level at which any scale charge is set will remain a matter for the Chancellor 's judgment and will be announced annually in each Budget . |
| 9 | It should appear so perfect that it could not be otherwise , that any change would be unthinkable . |
| 10 | I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment ! |
| 11 | The only practicable alternative , of allowing the directors themselves to decide when a departure from the profit goal is justified , would involve a substantial abandonment of the duty-based control mechanism and would offer no guarantee that any member would be satisfied with the particular balance of interests that the directors might choose to strike . |
| 12 | Even in cases where the employee is imprisoned after trial , the employer can not be advised that any dismissal would be fair . |
| 13 | No American believed that any action would be justified if more than half our population would be killed in retaliation . ’ |
| 14 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 15 | If the planes are to avoid the danger of anti-aircraft fire or missiles , they have to fly so high that any drop would be liable to miss its target , with the danger that the supplies would fall into the wrong hands , or even injure those whom it is intended to help . |
| 16 | He denied that any hardliners would be expelled , expressing the hope that ‘ they will decide to join a party which still clings to the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat ’ . |
| 17 | Current senior partner John Norton described it as ‘ a totally unwarranted action ’ , and added that any proceedings would be vigorously defended . |
| 18 | She understood now that any deal would be no more adequate than baby clothes thrown into the shade of a seagrape tree . |
| 19 | It seems impossible that any mother would be able to find her own babe from among such a throng . |
| 20 | This suggests that any bid would be pitched well above the suspension price . |
| 21 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 22 | The Garda apparently want the Attorney General in Dublin to give assurances that any information would be treated in confidence and that the informers would n't face trial . |
| 23 | Meeting Milan Kucan , the Slovenian President , on July 23 , Jovic issued a severe warning against precipitate action ; he added , however , that any republic would be entitled to request the right of secession from the SFRY provided its people had voted to that effect , and that the final decision would rest with the SFRY Assembly , which would consult the views of all other republics . |
| 24 | In the first place , the personality of the new king made it quite certain that any dispute would be conducted in a new way . |
| 25 | The exploration of dramatic configurations has revealed possibilities that are so many and varied that any list would be incomplete , if only for lack of tomorrow 's development . |