Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 The force would eventually form part of the overall UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , whose numbers were expected to reach some 10,000 by mid-1992 .
2 Government sources said , however , that in the end it was the conditions which would eventually determine timing of British participation .
3 If the ‘ need ’ can be clearly justified on social grounds then there is a prima facie case for either altering the distribution of income ( if that would permit the need to be translated into monetary demand ) or producing the product for social non-commodity distribution ( which would presumably involve nationalisation of the enterprises concerned ) .
4 For this would obviously ensure pride of place for holist explanations .
5 To the layman , logic might seem to compel that acceptance by the State of a person as a female for one purpose or at one level would necessarily mean acceptance of the person as a female for all purposes , on the simple reasoning that acceptance means what it says .
6 First , there is direct inconsistency in the sense that compliance with one would necessarily constitute breach of the other .
7 ( iv ) Sub-paragraph ( b ) ( iii ) above does not apply to the notepaper of a recognised body if a designation would merely repeat part of the body 's name .
8 So I wonder whilst I do that er if you would just take note of the safety precautions here .
9 She never liked the killing of them , though , whereas now she looked forward to the moment when she would finally take advantage of his surrender .
10 The Fleet , it was decided at a meeting of CIS Defence Ministers ( excluding Azerbaijan and Moldova ) , would not form part of the CIS strategic forces .
11 So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value .
12 Non-membership of the new Union would not preclude membership of the Economic Committee .
13 This would not involve disclosure of persons held out to be partners : if a party litigating against a firm is unaware of the identity of persons held out as partners , he can not by definition have acted in reliance upon the holding out , so liability under s14 of the Partnership Act can not arise .
14 MPs were taken by surprise when Labour managed to secure an emergency debate yesterday on last week 's announcement that a defeat on the social chapter would not prevent ratification of the treaty .
15 Speaking on Feb. 12 the Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez warned that whilst his country would not withhold aid of a humanitarian nature , the extension of aid in other areas would be dependent on further democratization .
16 ‘ Yes , Your Majesty , ’ I mumbled , hoping I would not lose control of my bowels or vomit in sheer terror .
17 I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life .
18 In choosing ( 2 ) she would realise that some pupils would be virtually at ( 1 ) for some listeners would not take advantage of the ‘ role ’ opportunity .
19 And in fact , though perhaps it is shocking to admit it , we took some advantage of this dreadful argument during the campaign : we said we did not want to bring personalities into the election , but of course it was important that members of the Council should be responsible people who would not take advantage of their ‘ special position ’ .
20 Clearly , the spirit of the laws of this Irish state was to be a religious one and therefore one which would not take account of the then one thousand , and now ten thousand or more of the population in the Southern state who professed no religion .
21 The goods would be delivered either upon the consignee 's or notify party 's identification , and delivery would not require presentation of the arrival notice .
22 In the selection of prizewinners , the criterion applied would not require comparison of one student against another but rather would require the comparison of one student 's achievement against previous expectations .
23 I went on to say that local authority support for public libraries which simply put books with a homosexual theme on to their shelves would not constitute promotion of homosexuality .
24 She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself .
25 Francis of Assisi maintains an astonishingly high position of regard in the hearts of many Christians who would comfortably condemn Rose of Lima , despite the fact that as well as chatting to wolves and birds , his own asceticism , and that laid on his followers , was ferocious and absolute .
26 General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up .
27 The only opposition party in Bophuthatswana , the National Seoposongwe Party , announced that it would soon become part of the ANC .
28 The State Department would select an able adviser to assist General Hodge : this official would gradually assume direction of political affairs and would act as a ‘ tutor ’ to the Interim Legislative Assembly .
29 She knew that decorators , always searching for something new , would quickly make use of them , and hoped the more adventurous of her customers would too .
30 They assessed that the BCP leadership was interested in opposition participation in government only in order to demonstrate Bulgaria 's commitment to democratic reform to Western bodies which might offer financial support , and to burden the opposition with some of the responsibility for tackling the current economic crisis , but that the BCP in practice would still retain control of all the levers of power .
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