Example sentences of "would [vb infin] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 2 | He would like it made clear that the line is not a public right of way , but he does not object to access under suitably controlled circumstances . |
| 3 | There were also delightful rumours that the heavy overhaul on sister No 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley would see it repainted green as No 60007 . |
| 4 | Mr Donald Dewar , Shadow Scottish Secretary , said Labour had fought an ‘ outstanding campaign ’ which would see it winning more than its present 48 of Scotland 's 72 seats at Westminster ; more , even , than the 50 it held at the last election . |
| 5 | The ministry source noted several possible scenarios , from the sale of individual divisions of Bull , which would enable it to eliminate unprofitable activities , to the taking on board of new investors , to the complete dismantling of the French computer maker . |
| 6 | North Korea was also believed to be constructing a nuclear reprocessing plant which would enable it to extract unused plutonium and uranium by-products from spent nuclear fuel rods . |
| 7 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 8 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 9 | I would hate it to get larger , but it could not be smaller because it is a specific professional education and training . |
| 10 | Syria remained hostile to any political process which would leave it standing alone against Israel . |
| 11 | In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided . |
| 12 | Does the Minister agree that three-year funding for the Sports Council would allow it to plan better for development and expansion ? |
| 13 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 14 | IBM bought up the technology outright before going public on its agreement with Apple to ensure that no enterprising outfit could subsequently go off and get a licence from Interactive that would allow it to develop compatible versions of PowerOpen , AIX or even Pink . |
| 15 | Here , for my argument , I would extend it to say that , in the absence of an adequate sociology , such ‘ ethnography ’ comes dangerously — close to confusing itself with aesthetics , confusing description with evaluation . |
| 16 | As a prognosis , I would say it presented many worthwhile and up-and-coming artists . |
| 17 | Some would say it has derogatory connotations . |
| 18 | Sometimes you would find it wedged next to ‘ Witchcraft in Stuart Wimbledon ’ and , later , it would appear in the middle of ‘ The Impact of the Black Death on South West London ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |