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

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1 A star that is 1.4 times heavier than our Sun has a Schwarzschild radius of only 2 km , and if such a star were to shrink to this size it would attain a mean density of , far beyond the density of nuclei .
2 He would ply a wealthy traveller with drink until he was besozzled , and then lead the unfortunate traveller up to his best room .
3 What 's more , Pinnacle says it will deliver its S-10 clone at around 65% of Sun 's list price , which would peg an entry-level machine with a 36MHz CPU doing 86 MIPS , 44 SPECint92 and 53 SPECfp92 at around $12,000 — £9,600 .
4 However , NATO would remain a defensive alliance and must continue to provide for the common defence , while enhancing its political component .
5 Whatever route was chosen , water supplies would remain a controversial topic .
6 The majority view was that Britain was and would remain a great power , giving the world leadership based on her experience over the centuries rather than on the depth of her pocket .
7 Germany 's President Richard von Weizsaecker said he was sure close ties between Bonn and Washington would remain a stable anchor .
8 Finally , there would remain a central core containing the reactor building itself .
9 So we have the nine daughters of Benjamin James Titford : three died young , one remained a spinster , three were Edwardian brides , two married during the early years of the reign of King George V. Their lives would take them far apart from each other and from Curry Rivel itself — yet they would remain a close-knit family , for all the physical distance which separated them .
10 Without the light of the Gospel , it would never be seen in its true depths , but would remain a coloured stone , beautiful , but not bright with a message of God shining within it .
11 In a later address to the Hong Kong chamber of commerce Lu also sought to reassure the business community and international investors that Hong Kong would remain a free port and an international financial centre after 1997 and that its prosperity would be maintained and investments protected .
12 In February 1937 Marshal Göring visited Marshal Śmigły-Rydz in Warsaw and assured him that Germany had absolutely no territorial claims on the Polish Corridor and that Danzig , though ‘ eternally bound ’ to Poland by trade , would remain a Free City .
13 To reassure worried German managers , Pirelli stresses that Continental would remain a German company and would keep control of its own brands .
14 It always looked as if old Wicksy would remain a minor TV figure until his series Heartbeat about a country plod came along .
15 They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions .
16 However , as explorers , it is the country through which we travel that always leaves the greatest impression and , in this respect , our passage along the ‘ train of bones ’ would remain an unforgettable journey .
17 Hankin stressed chief scout Barrie Geldart would remain an important member of his backroom staff .
18 Emily sighed , unless Craig 's name was cleared she would remain an old maid for ever , she would never accept second best whatever her father said .
19 Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore .
20 The Committee , quite rightly , does not recommend that only such deceptions as would influence a reasonable woman should attract criminal sanctions .
21 ‘ When you are with the only woman — the only one you think there is for that moment — you must love her and know her body as you would think a great musician would orchestrate a divine theme .
22 My new racket she said , look Gwendoline , who would think a new racket would go like that .
23 Some people would think a black look was aggressive others would not .
24 The effect is such you would think a giant mountain range had been flooded and only the peaks are left showing above the waterline .
25 What is distinct to us or to church work from the assumptions of central Government where funding might direct us to exclude what we want to do and to be a youth service which would deliver a prescribed curriculum .
26 Instead they decided to get money from GLEB and the trade unions to do a proper feasibility study — one which would deliver an unanswerable case for investment .
27 The aim was to create a non-biased set of figures that would paint an international picture of the scale of air pollution .
28 Admiration for the Soviet Union was wide-spread among Labour Party members and the Fabian leaders , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , promulgated the belief that out of Soviet Communism would spring a new civilisation .
29 The grid size can easily be increased or decreased at any stage during the design process , thus allowing you to create anything from a tiny motif to a large electronic or intarsia design that would cover a complete garment piece .
30 It seems likely that ch'i , for example , would cover a wide range of energy effects , and Paul Devereux has suggested that sha , the noxious form of ch'i , could actually be radon gas .
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