Example sentences of "it would [verb] [to-vb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of other , countervailing forces , this externalization of Oedipal conflict would seriously threaten the whole psychological basis of culture ; it would threaten to undo all that millennia of civilization had achieved and would plunge humanity back into the savagery from which it had originally so painfully emerged . |
| 2 | Faulty plugs on electrical appliances can be killers — yet most manufacturers , it seems , would rather put their customers at risk from electrocution and fire hazards than pay out less than the pound a time it would cost to supply all their electrical goods with ready-fitted plugs . |
| 3 | To fall , in , towards the nucleus it would have to lose all its energy , and this it can not do as it is continually absorbing energy from the ether which balances with the amount it naturally radiates . |
| 4 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 5 | They have gone no further than to promise a ‘ modest ’ central contribution if it would help to settle all disputes . |