Example sentences of "but it would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it must have been a tall , a long cat and a low door but it would lift the knocker and knock its way in |
| 2 | But it would prevent the press from publishing calumnies which can not be answered , as in the Beck case , sometimes until weeks or even months after the allegation is made in the public arena of a court . |
| 3 | It 'd add to the lengthiness of the business of cataloguing , but it would enrich the archive 's use , I think , increase its importance as a socio-historical source . |
| 4 | Erm but it would affect the people you deal with . |
| 5 | But it would eat the other fish ! ’ |
| 6 | But it would leave the Government exposed to the full force of house-buyers ' fury , with no international excuse for forcing an increase in mortgage rates that would probably have occurred anyway . |
| 7 | The development of the law of peace along these lines would not be a return to the acceptance of the legality of armed conflict as an instrument of national policy , but it would involve the articulation of a theory of the just war , however dangerous this may seem . |
| 8 | This need not reduce the rigour of the professional disciplines demanded , but it would make the qualifications less technical and inward-looking . |
| 9 | Such legalisation would not magically dispense with the need for policemen , but it would make the needed policing more manageable . |
| 10 | The official killing iron was heavier than she was used to , but it would do the job . |
| 11 | But it would complicate the withdrawal , with three thousand men to get back across that ford , instead of one-third of that number . |
| 12 | The unexpected news affected them all in some way , but it would have the greatest impact upon Seb 's life . |
| 13 | It too , in a sense , is a potential person but it would seem the act of a fanatic to insist that it has a right to life . |
| 14 | The repair did n't look much , but it would keep the rain out . |
| 15 | But it would undermine the essential certainty of an approach which sees the abolition of the GLC as an integral part of an attack on local autonomy . |
| 16 | But it would save the country money in not producing surplus cereals . |
| 17 | But it would increase the risk of undermining the pound and forcing a protective rise in interest rates . |
| 18 | But it would provide the breathing space necessary to organise orderly realignments , and permit the ERM to survive until EMU is in place . |
| 19 | Priority was to be given to walking , not only because it was felt that this would give disproportionate environmental benefits and would aid access to public transport , but it would recognise the dominance of local movement by foot transport . |
| 20 | But it would spoil the illusion if all the merrymakers were to think that their spending bonanza was for their own satisfaction . |