Example sentences of "that would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are spectacular , well-scripted pictures , but neither has the sort of commercial edge that would justify the high financial expectations their investors had of them . |
| 2 | Senior also differed from his colleagues with respect to the larger and smaller councils that would complement the local authorities providing the main services . |
| 3 | ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’ |
| 4 | Dickson himself admits to having early doubts about some of the ecological subtleties — including the supposed , and biologically unusual , ability of the common reeds that would comprise the visible part of the constructed wetland , to transfer oxygen from leaf-surface to below water , thereby allowing aerobic bacteria to metabolise concentrated sewage . |
| 5 | Then she gave him a fine-toothed comb that would drag the dead lice and their eggs from his hair after the liquid had done its work . |
| 6 | Erm the unstable bladder was present more often amongst our obstructed group although erm this was not something that would distinguish the obstructed patients from the non-obstructed . |
| 7 | Nusrat Bhutto , Pakistan 's deputy prime minister who is leading its delegation to the UN General Assembly , said in New York that Moscow had agreed to talk to the mujahedin on the establishment of an interim government in Kabul that would involve the present Soviet-backed administration . |
| 8 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 9 | The absence of a rebound internal anal sphincter response after deflation of the rectal balloon in all patients with a spinal transection at a level that would involve the sympathetic outflow would support interruption of sympathetic reflexes conveyed through the spinal cord . |
| 10 | Asked whether a Bolshevik-style revolution in Africa by violent means that would miss the capitalist stage of development was possible , he said : ‘ I do n't think that revolution in this sense is possible . ’ |
| 11 | To the Germans , however , it presented the key to Côte 304 , which was the key to Mort Homme , which in turn was the key that would unlock the Right Bank , und so weiter . |
| 12 | Edward Forbes and Darwin were inspired by Lyell to look for geological changes that would explain the present distribution of species in Europe . |
| 13 | It was a long time before she saw anything that would explain the curious horse call ; then she saw a notice-board standing up , gaunt and solitary , ahead of her , and she hurried towards it . |
| 14 | He was also inspired by Humboldt 's vision of an all-embracing theory that would explain the geographical diversity of life on earth . |
| 15 | I made a guesswork assessment that it would be able to provide a motor car that would cost the disabled person at least 25 per cent less than if he made his own arrangements . |
| 16 | His partner on the fairways , caddie Pete Bender , was determined it would not be lack of inspiration or experience from him that would cost the big Australian this major . |
| 17 | It is the roof plan that would form the conventional orthographic projection onto the top of the transparent cube . |
| 18 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 19 | Both the major parties were agreed as to the need for a welfare state and a mixed , but managed , economy that would soften the rough edges of capitalism as they cut into the needy . |
| 20 | A poll that would satisfy the aesthetic sense of a professional statistician would , for example , always ask any Do n't Know how he voted last time , and collate this information into the poll . |
| 21 | leyasu sought to establish a system of rule that would ensure the continued dominance of his heirs . |
| 22 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
| 23 | It had to be something that would give the prospective punter some idea of the staggering depth and scope and thoroughness of Henry 's work . |
| 24 | New feminism stressed the importance of women 's role in the home , not to argue the case of female uniqueness and social maternalism , but rather in order to demand reforms that would give the individual mother control over her ‘ conditions of work ’ and ‘ her product ’ . |
| 25 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |
| 26 | The percentage of drivers that would prefer the old 50 km/h limit has fallen from 46 per cent before , to six per cent after , the experimental period . |
| 27 | Despite grave shortages of capital and an infrastructure devastated by US bombing MITI saw the route to sustained economic expansion in sectors that would offer the maximum possible productivity growth . |
| 28 | If we 're only offering £10,500 a year to join the police force , for people to put their lives on the line , it not the sort of money that would attract the right people . |
| 29 | Learning and memorising five different patterns or shapes that would cover the complete fretboard in any key . |
| 30 | A glove that would cover the whole body up to the neck . |