Example sentences of "would [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a foregone conclusion that Haslam would for the second time in his career find himself ‘ pitch-forked ’ into a retrenchment programme . |
| 2 | So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group . |
| 3 | Sometimes the initial claims made were much exaggerated : as the claim made in New Testament studies that the computer would for the first time reveal the true lineaments of the Bible that we had ignorantly worshipped . |
| 4 | Esher ( 1981 ) has suggested that Britain has experienced three ‘ Rebuilds ’ : the Enlightenment , the Industrial Revolution and the Welfare State : ‘ fashioned by wartime social democrats in England , which would for the first time in history build cities that were not dramatizations of privilege and poverty ’ ( p. 278 ) . |
| 5 | The ruling party also announced that the December 1990 elections to the People 's Assembly would for the first time be open to participation by other parties . |
| 6 | Andorrans would for the first time wield full sovereignty , be able to form and join unions and political parties and have an independent judiciary . |
| 7 | An FAO report published in November 1989 said that , despite a net increase in world cereal production , world stocks would for the third year running be " at or below the minimum necessary to safeguard global food security " , with wheat reserves in the leading exporting countries at their lowest since the world food crisis of the early 1970s . |
| 8 | Well where would of the other bed have gone ? |
| 9 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 10 | Lack of competition is a pre-requisite for the survival of inefficient managements and the pursuit of non-profit objectives , since without some degree of monopoly power failure to maximise profits would in the long run lead to collapse . |
| 11 | Since real output could also change only slowly over time in response to changes in aggregate demand , it followed that the rate of monetary growth would in the long run be correlated with the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | In other words , different legal arenas are not entirely severed from each other , and political movements such as the peace movement will have to bear in mind the impact of its legal activities on legal arenas other than those with which it is immediately engaged : for example , does the encouragement of judicial activism by the peace movement , or an invitation to adjudication based on natural law , open floodgates which — although they produce desirable results in the short term — one would in the long term prefer to remain shut ? |
| 13 | Whether more and better schooling would in the short run produce a larger group of efficient entrepreneurs , capable of making individual businesses more competitive , is an open question . |
| 14 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 15 | We like the green landscape , the simple food , the reserved people , and our children do n't wilt in the heat as they would on the Amalfi coast . |
| 16 | The ability to quantify androgyny on the BSRI seemed to some 1970s North American feminists to suggest and even to facilitate an escape from oppressive aspects of dominant discourses of femininity and masculinity , like guilt and dependency , and violence and insensitivity , which would at the same time retain femininity 's positive social , emotional characteristics , and the valuable self-confidence and achievement motivation commonly associated with masculinity . |
| 17 | But , to avoid an immediate and pre-emptive Serb offensive , allied aircraft would at the same time bomb Serb artillery positions and supply lines . |
| 18 | Even if — and it is a big " if " — an unobjectionable means could be devised by which choice among candidates on party lists could be indicated and also convincingly assessed for the award of seats , the possibility of that choice could not be provided by any practicable modification of the WGMS which would at the same time ensure a high degree of proportionality and be acceptable to British electors and parties . |
| 19 | These , so MacDonald and Snowden told their colleagues , must amount to £25–30 millions , the bulk of them to be found out of unemployment charges … only reductions in unemployment payments would satisfy the opposition and resolve the crisis ; yet this would at the same time betray the hopes of the party 's supporters and probably split the party itself … |
| 20 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 21 | Such ideas had their major influence in South Wales where nearly all men were engaged in mining and could envisage a pure " class struggle " between themselves and the coalowners which would at the same time be a political struggle between the great majority and the rich minority . |
| 22 | The move across open ground involved covering about 1,500 metres , but , with the fireplan to cover the company , and with the speed and protection the Warriors afforded , the company was certain it would across the featureless landscape that surrounded the enemy 's position . |
| 23 | Anson well knew that if control of the Channel was lost all was lost and on 5 April he assured the king that his fleet , with 30 ships of the line , would by the following month outnumber the French , with their 27 warships between Brest and Rochefort . |
| 24 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |