Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 2 | It would effectively grant car makers such as Ford , BMW and Rover a monopoly in such after-sales parts , although the plans do not apply to mechanical products such as gearboxes and engine parts . |
| 3 | The Association found that for the first time the municipal government was taking its demands seriously and was prepared to make concessions which would effectively improve working conditions . |
| 4 | In the context of the history of English studies , the Report can best be understood as an attempt to develop a strategy which would effectively link state concerns with those of a wider movement within civil society . |
| 5 | Alternatively , the employer may have chosen not to exploit the invention at all since it would effectively reduce customer demand for an established and more expensive substitute already produced as part of his current range of activities . |
| 6 | If endorsed by the cabinet and the ANC 's national executive committee , and in due course by a multi-party conference , it would effectively postpone majority rule until the year 2000 . |
| 7 | Ukraine has refused to recognise Russia as the successor in international accords to the Soviet Union , and is seeking a modification that would effectively turn START into a multilateral treaty . |
| 8 | However , the final epoch of history , the communist or socialist society which Marx believed would eventually supplant capitalism , will not result from a new force of production . |
| 9 | This would eventually stop expansion in some regions and cause them to start to recollapse . |
| 10 | It is reported that Akbar , who was an emperor in India from 1542 to 1602 , ordered that a group of children be brought up without any instruction in language , to test the belief that they would eventually speak Hebrew , the language of God . |
| 11 | Either send in a large team , which would eventually draw attention to itself ; use a sleeper , which would only cause its own problems ; or call in a loner . |
| 12 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Bolivian President also attended the Las Lenas summit , raising expectations that Bolivia would eventually join Mercosur . |
| 15 | Government sources said , however , that in the end it was the conditions which would eventually determine timing of British participation . |
| 16 | A plantation of 30,000 artificial palms would fundamentally shift cloud patterns near coastal deserts , drawing them overland from the sea . |
| 17 | If that clause was taken to be a definition of the Government 's position and repeatedly referred to as an escape route , which appears to be the intention , it would fundamentally undermine confidence in the Government 's commitment to the European process . |
| 18 | As the Conference 's actuary pointed out , few employers would gladly contemplate taxation to finance state provision , when , simultaneously , they were developing private pension schemes . |
| 19 | Some of my colleagues would gladly drive blindfold into a brick wall for this band , and while this collection hardly brings out the suicidal in me , I might be tempted to start coming along for the ride . |
| 20 | ‘ We would gladly accept family planning , ’ said women at a village meeting in Java , ‘ provided that it does n't interfere with our work , or do us any permanent harm , or be against our religion . |
| 21 | But however horrible the thought of lying sticky and crumpled , sleeping , or trying to , might be , the actual moment of departure is one I would gladly relive time and time again . |
| 22 | Competition would slowly replace planning . |
| 23 | By mid-April German soldiers were complaining in letters home of the high casualties suffered by their ration parties ; ‘ many would rather endure hunger than make these dangerous expeditions for food ’ General von Zwehl whose corps was to stay at Verdun , without relief , during the whole ten months the battle lasted , speaks of a special ‘ kind of psychosis ’ that infected his men there . |
| 24 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was a little more friendly since he ‘ would rather give money for Education than throw it down the sink with Sir William Beveridge ’ . |
| 25 | Nick things that men who really love making love with women would rather grind flesh against flesh than fiddle about with straps and elastic . |
| 26 | Firstly , that if he could do so , he would rather bring joy than pain . |
| 27 | Many pupils who had left a schoolbook behind would rather risk punishment than walk through the dark room with the animals smiling as they watched you hunt for your things . |
| 28 | ‘ People generally would rather spend money on clothes because they feel they are noticed first . |
| 29 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 30 | He could live here at Thrushcross Grange , which is a finer house than Wuthering Heights , but he would rather receive rent than live comfortably . |