Example sentences of "it would [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It would prevent more tragedies like Michael Watson 's and bring back the skill to the game .
2 If there were an art fair in Gambia it would bring more business than London . ’
3 Council leader John Williams said he fully supported the scheme and hoped it would attract more tourists to the area .
4 Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency .
5 If so , it would make more sense and cost less in subsidy to build that new winner within Airbus .
6 In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike .
7 Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired .
8 It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry .
9 It would make more sense economically to bring them home , and would not create any military threat .
10 In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life .
11 After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky .
12 Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ?
13 It would make more sense to put some of the money to improving the surfaces of the existing roads , which again compare very unfavourably with our European neighbours .
14 It would make more sense if it said Tim ran home .
15 ‘ I think the fans would welcome that because it would mean more weekend games .
16 It would mean more facilities for the disabled at polling stations .
17 But why do n't you allow them to run a similar course there because it would mean more student members
18 It would mean more job losses , dearer mortgages and more firms going bust .
19 While some local authorities welcomed part of the proposals , critics said it would create more losers than winners .
20 They said it would create more traffic and be dangerous for children and old people .
21 That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives .
22 A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do
23 She did n't mind but it would put more pressure on her schedule .
24 The board also said that in future it would receive more information on ‘ public interest issues ’ affecting the BBC .
25 It would have more affect in the south
26 I think it would have more impact , do n't you ?
27 Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me .
28 Can we oppose the checkerboard strategy on the ground that it would produce more instances of injustice than it would prevent ?
29 France made it clear to New Zealand that it would allow more imports of lamb and dairy products into France if New Zealand reduced the charge against the couple to manslaughter and then deported them .
30 It would force more people onto the roads .
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