Example sentences of "this would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This would maximise total revenue and result in a profit of £100,000 .
2 The former , however , may not be required to comply with all the requirements of local law where this would place unreasonable burdens on a company from another member state and where the public interest is adequately safeguarded in the member state of establishment .
3 The State Agricultural Society of New York hired an entomologist , Asa Fitch , in 1854 to study the life history of insects in the hope that this would suggest new methods of control .
4 This would bring financial pressure to bear on his friends and family , and besides it was profitable .
5 It said this would bring positive improvements like more keyhole surgery , reduced waiting lists , and a day surgery unit .
6 Labour Minister Carlos Torres y Torres acknowledged that this would leave minimum wages well below the necessary minimum for subsistence , estimated at 87,000,000 intis ( approximately US$270 ) , but stated that any further increase would raise inflation and bankrupt small businesses .
7 This would leave nuclear-armed bombers , cruise missiles and depth charges .
8 This would enable prospective studies to be performed to determine the importance of platelet function in the development of vascular disease .
9 This would enable positive action , guided by human judgement to be used to limit the spread of fire and provide a possibility of extinguishment in the case of failure by the purely automatic system to control the fire in its initial stages .
10 This would mean split powers , split registers of consents and split responsibilites for organising the schemes .
11 Are the answers at the back of the book or on the next page or are they in another book ( this would mean extra expense ) ? 16 Does the student learn inductively or solely deductively ? 17 Are the topics and stories interesting and appropriate or are they dull and irrelevant to your students ' needs ?
12 As you may well imagine this would mean huge heatsinks and power transformers .
13 For some birth parents this would mean periodic up-dating of information from themselves to the adoptive family and from the latter to the birth parents directly or through the placement agency .
14 A further improvement could be an approved panel of investment business auditors , although this would mean potential members of the panel would be excluded because of lack of experience , and they would not be provided with the chance of obtaining it .
15 In the language of computer software say , this would mean careful attention to the derivation of the algorithm before a line of code is written .
16 This would mean considerable cost savings for the smaller teams and help them survive during a difficult economic period .
17 This would mean local authorities working together with private and voluntary sectors to provide homes and hostels .
18 This would avoid civil actions , which are often defeated because individual victims , even when they decide to act co-operatively , are rarely a match for corporations who decide it is better to be prudent than just .
19 And even if a protectionist Power were to exclude British goods from some newly developing market , it was ‘ mercantilist superstition ’ to believe that this would do permanent damage :
20 This would enhance professional confidence in what schools are achieving and the methods used to do it .
21 These would be released by the acid formed by the CO , and this would achieve heavy crop yields on most soils without additional fertiliser application .
22 It believes this would prevent legal challenges to its status while retaining its flexibility to interpret the code according to changing circumstances .
23 This would prevent questionable findings influencing a much wider readership .
24 One obvious way out was to charge richer patients a fee , but the hospital governors feared that this would deter charitable donations .
25 Deng Xiaoping hoped that this would satisfy conservative critics wary of reform and keep in check any unhealthy tendencies among the younger generation .
26 It is arguable , however , that these stones belong stratigraphically with the later road surface , with its central channel , by which time the earlier drains had probably ceased to function ; this would explain certain anomalies in their relative positions and have important implications for the site 's later appearance .
27 This would offer great possibilities for travel in space and time , but unfortunately it seems that these solutions may all be highly unstable ; the least disturbance , such as the presence of an astronaut , may change them so that the astronaut could not see the singularity until he hit it and and his time came to an end .
28 This would make economic sense in times of unemployment and recession , and would reduce the hardship of those most vulnerable to the impact of inflation .
29 There is a great deal of reluctance in the Industry to produce a version of DOS which is not ‘ backwards-compatible ’ as this would make existing software obsolete at a stroke and users would be reluctant to make such a drastic ( and expensive ) move .
30 This would make local councils properly accountable to their local electorates .
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