Example sentences of "it would [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is on a vast scale though : Franz Schrader , the first great cartographer of these mountains , estimated that it would hold twenty million people ; modern guidebooks have cut this number churlishly , and for all I know realistically down to three million . |
| 2 | On Aug. 20 France declared that it would contribute 10 Mirage 2000 jets ; more than 200 US aircraft were believed already to be operating in the area . |
| 3 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
| 4 | Why do you think it did n't fail er early on as a strike , er a as the fact it was only predicted it would last two or three weeks but it was obvious at the time it was gon na go on . |
| 5 | It would last six years and would cost , at their own rough estimate , three million six hundred thousand and a few odd francs . |
| 6 | The Rome-based World Food Programme ( WFP ) announced that it would allocate 31,000 tonnes of food for refugees , while France , Japan and Argentina undertook to provide aircraft to help evacuate refugees and distribute relief supplies . |
| 7 | Euro Disney thought it would attract 11 million fun-seekers by September . |
| 8 | Oxfam has cancelled a charity pop concert amid fears that it would attract thousands of travellers back to the Malvern Hills , the scene of last month 's illegal Bank Holiday festival . |
| 9 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 10 | He envisaged this as a well-balanced wheel driven by a lead weight suspended from its axle so that it would make one revolution between sunrise and sunset . |
| 11 | It would make one regret to lose it and yet I shall think nothing but that loss wanting to complete my happiness . |
| 12 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 13 | They would not be employed singly but rather , once authorisation was given to employ them , it would mean tens , hundreds or even thousands of nuclear explosions , however ‘ small ’ . |
| 14 | A senior administration source told The Daily Telegraph that the Yeltsin team had informally agreed a ‘ sacrifice list ’ of minor ministries that it would throw one-by-one to hardliners ‘ like bones ’ if the need arose . |
| 15 | It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country . |
| 16 | she never said how much the pound was worth , well I I do n't think it would cover five pence piece . |
| 17 | The board had hoped that , when it lost statutory monopoly power to buy all milk in its area some time next year , it would retain 100 per cent loyalty from its dairy farmers . |
| 18 | BRITISH GAS last night denied a report on News at Ten that it would announce 2,000 more job losses today . |
| 19 | It would comprise 16 parliamentary deputies and 11 private citizens and would be headed by Rainer Eppelmann , a leading peace campaigner and dissident under the former East German regime . |
| 20 | Mitterrand , a staunch defender of French culture , may be a reluctant participant at the event , although his original objections must have melted back in 1987 when the American company said that with this , the fourth of its parks ( there are two in the United States and one outside Tokyo ) , it would create 12,000 jobs … |
| 21 | If all this fused … it would give 2 million calories ( of heat ) per gram . |
| 22 | Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers . |
| 23 | Or , it would build 21 district hospitals and run them for a year . |
| 24 | Air France , which had agreed in mid-1990 to merge with its main French international rival UTA and the domestic airline Air Inter , faced a new challenge on March 3 , when the French government announced that it would redistribute 16 of the airline 's routes to its competitors , in an effort to reduce the airline 's 97 per cent share of the domestic aviation market . |
| 25 | On February 19th Harrods announced that it would sack 600 of its workforce , on top of 90 redundancies last month . |
| 26 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 27 | On Aug. 3 the European Commission announced that it would send 10,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to Somalia to support the work of the ICRC in Somalia . |
| 28 | His eyes gleamed ; he smiled as he recited what it would do one day . |
| 29 | The scheme is intended to improve the city 's image and deter violence , vandalism and theft It would involve 30 uniformed wardens providing a 12-hour seven-day weekly eyes-and-ears service and acting as tourist guides . |
| 30 | It would offer 26 places each morning and afternoon , saving some families a long trek to Corporation Road and even further afield . |