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

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1 There was also the undoubted administrative convenience of having the experience and structure of the former county boroughs to draw on when establishing departments in the new authorities : a district without this advantage would need to create departments from scratch amid the other upheavals of reorganisation .
2 This advantage would constrain the drive for secession :
3 Other provisions protect some community charge payers from the effects of the change from rates where this change would result in large increases in their payments .
4 In its view this change would shift priorities from local to national interest and from regional economics to conservation .
5 This change would open up a new potential for managers and doctors to invest in shared programmes .
6 This change would rectify these disparities and bring the legislative into line with the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment Directive .
7 Thirty years ago this change would have been more likely to coincide with marriage ; today it coincides with becoming a parent , and its significance may be underrated as maternity leave holds open the option of a very early return to work .
8 And the same change throughout the industry can be accounted for by the functional fact that only those firms which made this change would have survived the competition .
9 Once again , no stops were required ( other than the usual safety stop at three metres ) and there was a feeling that this computer would have coped with far more strenuous dives with ease .
10 The bumps and marks on the this goldfish would prevent it from winning any show prizes — but even a humble fantail deserves the best conditions .
11 This build would ensure the smallest possible surface area through which to lose heat , though the effect in well-insulated subjects can only have been trivial .
12 As they understood the position the RHA had stated since that this funding would have to be applied in the short term to supporting the development of acute admission beds at Charing Cross Hospital , to serve the residents of Hammersmith and Fulham .
13 The second example concerns the financing of the City Technology Colleges , and the government 's expectation that 80 per cent of this funding would come from private industry .
14 This link would affect far fewer people , there would be less disturbance to Darlington and its residents , and the bypass would be utilised fully .
15 The retention of the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher as a form of ‘ back-up ’ to this liability would go some way to meet this point , though the Royal Commission 's preference , for reasons of certainty , was for the abolition of that rule .
16 At present , interest earned in this country by overseas nationals is subject to tax but , if a tax haven state was created in Britain , this liability would disappear and make such deposits more attractive .
17 This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on .
18 Considerations of this kind would lead to a good deal of common authority , that is they would legitimate the authority of a government over all its subjects regarding a certain range of issues .
19 Reforms of this kind would go further towards making the welfare system more redistributive than any likely changes in the structure of services or benefits .
20 An adjustment of this kind would serve to promote recovery , and it should also go some way to reassure international opinion .
21 A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ .
22 A society of this kind would have a high level of culture and morality , and it would be managed by a system of genuine people 's rule , of ‘ profound and consistent democracy ’ .
23 An effort of this kind would have been quite beyond the office 's powers at any time until well into the nineteenth century .
24 Indeed , as the writing system was not standardized , it is likely that variation of this kind would enter more readily into the texts than it would today , and that it may therefore be possible by comparing texts to trace the pattern by which one variant recedes and another spreads .
25 Changes of this kind would standardize and strengthen accountability without destroying the arm 's length arrangement .
26 While the use of the term is admittedly unusual , its meaning seems clear enough ; and the statement that Molla Yegan succeeded Molla Fenari in this function would seem to indicate that Taskopruzade intends the same function by the terms and .
27 The cutaway on this guitar would suggest a soloing facility and the EN shines in this department , too .
28 Those who first heard this story would have understood well enough that if the rebel leaders were to be punished , then the other members of their families might have to suffer with them .
29 If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically .
30 At a practical level , greater knowledge in this field would mean that more effective action could be taken in selecting , deploying , developing and promoting managers .
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