Example sentences of "would [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , to close all nuclear power stations would consign 100,000 workers to the dole queues . |
| 2 | I 've got stories : equipment getting trashed , feet through speakers , Ginger would throw lighted cigarettes in my hair ! |
| 3 | He walked around the table now in an exaggerated pose , and Harry , laughing , said , ‘ If it was n't for spoiling Aunt Ellen 's work I would throw that centrepiece at you . ’ |
| 4 | It was hoped that such a survey would throw some light on the contemporary landscape in the late Saxon period and perhaps locate earthworks associated with the early monastery . |
| 5 | While the pervasiveness and uniformity of television news made it unlikely that it would influence different people in different ways , the press seemed likely to influence different readers in very different ways . |
| 6 | However , it is also the basis for our belief that improving the pedestrian 's lot would deliver great benefits to an enormously large number of consumers . |
| 7 | New members would stress social reasons for joining . |
| 8 | A proposal for an international forest convention , which would cover all types of forest and lay down uniform standards , was favoured by the north but strongly opposed by the south . |
| 9 | It recommended that Section 2 be replaced by a new Act that would define more narrowly the information that was to be protected ; restricted categories would cover confidential material about defence , foreign affairs and currency reserves , information concerning law enforcement and information provided for the government by an individual or private concern . |
| 10 | Plus you can add on Family Legal Protection ( which would cover legal expenses in certain circumstances ) . |
| 11 | workshop and they would cover this board with woodcuttings like s what we call spills . |
| 12 | We can not suppose , however , that discrimination training is quite without effect — to do so would eliminate any possibility of explaining why acquired distinctiveness training should be superior to acquired equivalence training in producing differentiation . |
| 13 | You have to consider its results as they would affect all classes of the community , and the principles that underlie it , and you have to consider whether the people of this country have been consulted with regard to it . |
| 14 | Women 's moral reasoning is more ‘ relational ’ : they tend to think about how a decision would affect particular persons in a concrete situation , and make their choices accordingly . |
| 15 | And if we were to ban the the process , th erm we would devise other means for research , would , we would find alternatives . |
| 16 | He announced that the USA would be sending Greece surplus tanks and artillery and would lease two frigates to the navy . |
| 17 | The plaintiff responded by saying he was interested in selling at $2.5m. but would prefer that sum to be nett of commission . |
| 18 | I would prefer two divisions of the Championship and , in time , perhaps of the Sunday League , with promotion and relegation . |
| 19 | However , most of the time we have little or no idea what action results from articles in the Journal , or whether members would prefer other ways of getting involved . |
| 20 | He said the congress would prefer this idea to impeachment . |
| 21 | A somewhat smaller proportion , 43 per cent , would prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be another election for a number of years . |
| 22 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 23 | RATHER THAN SIT THROUGH ten minutes of The Pocket Dream , any sensible person , unlikely as it may sound , would prefer three hours of wife-beating , child abuse , paranoia , and the rape of a mentally-retarded woman in The Crackwalker , the first drama by the Canadian playwright Judith Thompson to be seen here . |
| 24 | The idea put about by Ministers at the time that there would be competition in the water industry — because people would compare one region of the country with another — is unrealistic . |
| 25 | The Computer Consultative Group could serve as the model for this committee , which would oversee current activities in this field , suggest new developments and initiatives to Management , and monitor their introduction . |
| 26 | Should an apparent truce in Bosnia lead to the sending of substantial peacekeeping forces , the subsequent breakdown of such an agreement would trigger acute pressures for sending sufficient troops to achieve peacemaking ( ‘ smothering the war by force ’ ) . |
| 27 | An epidemic this winter — and it is still questionable whether we will have one — would trigger heavy demand for vaccine next year . |
| 28 | As a result of the meeting and subsequent publicity , it was resolved that the council would indeed proceed with compulsory purchase , that study would be undertaken to explore new uses for the building and that English Heritage would grant substantial aid for repairs . |
| 29 | It was announced in March 1990 that proposed new legislation would grant exclusive rights to the national news agency , Bernama , to receive incoming news . |
| 30 | The government announced on June 10 that it would grant limited autonomy to the Chittagong Hill Tracts ( CHT ) [ see p. 37205 ] . |