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

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1 I did not speak to Harold Wilson or to Lady Falkender about the matter , since I was sure that strenuous efforts would be made to prevent disclosure , but I was equally sure from Denis Hamilton 's attitude that this would not succeed and it was therefore better not to try .
2 It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas .
3 This is somewhat surprising , since it would be reasonable to assume that domain-specific dictionaries would contain the most appropriate collocations for domain-specific documents .
4 Mindful of recent events in Dakar , these officials believed that Allied interests would best be served by maintaining a working relationship with Vichy administrators .
5 Negotiations between Abkhazia , Georgia and Russia on Sept. 3 in Moscow resulted in a ceasefire effective from Sept. 5 , the establishment of a tripartite monitoring and inspection committee and agreement that Georgian troops would remain in Abkhazia .
6 Edis and Brabazon have suggested that parental involvement would be improved if parents were given more extensive rights .
7 However , Sobchak and Samsonov reached an agreement that armed forces would not enter the city , although Vitebsk KGB and Pskov military divisions were reported to be moving towards Leningrad on Aug. 20 , according to Lithuanian radio .
8 The city was in chaos and we were afraid that armed men would attack us .
9 Officials said that the decision was in part motivated by concern that punishing Israel would undermine Israel 's position at the forthcoming Middle East peace conference , and aggravate further US-Israeli relations .
10 Even those who thought that spatial perception would stand in for technical ability at age thirteen felt that the match between the specific ability and general intelligence was too close to allow it to generate a specialised educational form .
11 How contemporary Indian art will fare is less certain although Mr Thompson hoped that European dealers would attend the sale .
12 It was announced on Sept. 19 that the Jordanian government had received notification that Saudi Arabi would cut oil supplies immediately due to the non-payment of oil bills amounting to US$46,000,000 .
13 The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment .
14 They cite instead a report by representatives of Ramsar , the international wetlands convention , which warns that extensive mining would be sure to cause irreparable damage to the area .
15 The constitution guaranteed that church-state relations would remain difficult and that this in turn would imperil Spain 's democratic experiment .
16 The Cecchini Report does not have much to say on this issue , but the implication of such a policy is that monetary policies would need to be co-ordinated to prevent the growth of monetary instability .
17 Calling for an increase of the money supply above the expected level of inflation to improve liquidity in the economy , Eysymontt stressed that monetary expansion would be within well-defined limits , after consultation with the Central Bank ( NBP ) .
18 He emphasized that respectable ratepayers would object to contributing to the cost of giving artificial security to their neighbours ' looseness of life .
19 Just as it appeared that political compromise would prevail , both Mr Yeltsin and Mr Kravchuk have allowed nationalists in their camp to take the initiative , partly to divert attention from domestic troubles .
20 They had rather hoped that political questions would take up at least as much time as trade problems during this week 's visit to Japan .
21 Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities .
22 Following the military coup in September 1988 SLORC announced that political parties would be allowed to function .
23 The opposition also expressed concern that political parties would be required to pay a deposit of francs CFA30,000,000 ( US$157,800 ) .
24 Attorney General Amos Wako announced the same day that political parties would not be required to obtain licences to hold rallies during the election campaign , and that all parties would be allocated equal air time on national radio and television .
25 The French government tried to save money by accrediting the consul-general it sent to Japan in 1858 also as chargé d'affaires ( a device quite often used outside Europe , mainly in minor Latin-American states where it was expected that political relations would be very much subordinate to commercial ones ) .
26 A Gallup Poll in March 1960 showed that 78% of those questioned favoured the death penalty , with 73% believing that complete abolition would lead to a rise in the number of murders .
27 In mid-May , she told one foreign reporter that bloody repression would be inevitable if the students did not withdraw .
28 The system of tripartisme ( three-party co-operation ) had survived the strains of devising a constitution and the elections to a National Assembly in November showed that stable government would continue to rely on the main parties working together : the Communists now had 29 per cent of the vote , the Christian Democrats 26 per cent and the Socialists 18 per cent .
29 The debt charges on the recreation facilities , for example , would remain , whoever was running them and there is absolutely no possibility that private contractors would actually take over the debt charges .
30 On rail , Rifkind stated that legislation would be put forward so that private operators would no longer be required to obtain British Rail approval to run passenger or freight services on BR track .
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