Example sentences of "would [verb] such [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is nowadays quite unrealistic for a tenant even to attempt to secure a long letting of commercial property at a fixed rack rent ; and no well-advised landlord would grant such a lease .
2 Chamberlain provided the way out by suggesting to Balcarres that both he and Long should withdraw and so allow Law to be elected unanimously ; he also turned down Balcarres 's remarkable advice that he should allow Long to be elected since Long would make such a mess of things that Chamberlain would be bound to succeed within the year .
3 The question is whether the Treaty of Maastricht would make such a transfer of allegiance imperative .
4 At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’
5 It was the task of the Uthwatt Committee , from whose report this quotation is taken , to devise a scheme which would make such a basis possible . ’
6 The question that the hon. Gentleman has to answer is what nostrums put forward by his Front-Bench spokesmen would make such a record possible under a Labour Government .
7 No analyst would make such a claim today , and the ‘ nationalization ’ thesis has had to be revised in the light of increased local variations in voting behaviour .
8 USL president Roel Pieper says the technology that would make such a move possible is not yet formalised , indicating that it will be either the Open Software Foundation 's Architecture Neutral Distribution Format or a binary conversion .
9 When asked why they would make such a move , most replied that
10 The impossibility of shaking them in cross-examination would make such a reform grossly unfair to the media .
11 A sum like this , though , would eat such a hole in it as to jeopardize his ordinary work .
12 Although it is by no means certain that the courts would uphold such a contention , groups should nevertheless exercise care in this area .
13 If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught .
14 But such was the disappointment on his face that I was compelled to agree that we would enjoy such a picnic , which indeed is a delicious meal in other circumstances — at Henley during summer , or at Glyndebourne on a good afternoon — but in the middle of the South African veld , on our way to Rhodesia , its incongruity would have occurred to anyone except to a British diplomat .
15 And , who would fund such a project ?
16 It was hard to credit that a British Cabinet would pursue such a policy but , then , there were plenty of hard men in the Government .
17 ( N.B. The dealer would do such a churn if he knew the client had no money from other sources . )
18 I have no idea who would do such a thing to him .
19 No Christian prince would do such a thing to innocent hostages ?
20 ‘ Who would do such a thing ? ’
21 ‘ Who would do such a thing ? ’
22 ‘ I do n't believe they would do such a thing without my permission . ’
23 ‘ Well , who would do such a thing ? ’
24 Their owner says she 's sickened , and ca n't understand why anybody would do such a thing .
25 ‘ I am horrified that somebody would do such a thing .
26 There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals .
27 Health service employers who mean what they say in their statements about equal opportunities would welcome such a monitoring process .
28 And the Bush administration is sending clear signals that it would welcome such a deal .
29 And I would welcome such an inspection and report .
30 The residents ' associations were not the type of organization that would welcome such an alliance .
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