Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] would [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central requirement can not be escaped : almost every action that would remedy and reassure involves the relationship between the citizen and the state . |
| 2 | As the moment approached for a key procedural vote that would make or break Reagan 's programme , Stockman received an agitated telephone call from Bill Thomas , a conservative Republican from California and an agent of the administration on Capitol Hill : This extended quotation provides a fascinating picture of the American pluralist system in operation while helping us to understand why the Reaganites were successful in fashioning the coalitions they required in the House of Representatives . |
| 3 | Water , it seemed , was everywhere ; the lanes were mired with it , dikes deep , clogged here and there by flotsam into dams that would sunder and flood under the pressure of constant rain . |
| 4 | Improved morale would also make possible organizational advances outside parliament , all linked to the issue of Ulster , and with the sights fixed firmly on the next election , an election that would make or break the Union , the Empire and Law 's leadership of the party . |
| 5 | What I needed was a solid holder that would n't let pencils bend or break , and a retainer that would expand and contract a million times . |
| 6 | I remember an Oxford don complaining that she was tired of hearing the claim that universities should aim to produce ‘ rounded ’ people ; she wanted them to have sharp corners that would interact and strike sparks . |
| 7 | One of these was to ‘ plant ’ a seismic amplifier , a gadget that would monitor and transmit back to Earth precise details of lunar tremors . |
| 8 | " I see , " said Clara , descending : and she thought of the square flat patch that extended beyond her mother 's house at home , and of the grudgingly mown grass , and the dutifully weeded herbaceous borders , and the complaints about neighbouring cats and dogs that would come and dig in the unrewarding earth . |
| 9 | On 20 February 1979 a Cabinet meeting decided on an overhaul of the statutes of the CNES , in order to increase its role and powers , to organize a body that would produce and commercialize the Ariane launcher rockets , and to undertake a new telecommunications satellite programme ( Telecom-I ) . |
| 10 | The other requirements for keeping leather corals , apart from current and light , are much the same as for other coelenterates ; well-filtered water with phosphate and nitrate at levels as low as possible and no fish that would eat or damage them . |
| 11 | If he did have designs on her , and a plan to marry Mr Eddie Hogan 's daughter and thereby marry into the business , then why was he saying all the things that would irritate and upset her ? |
| 12 | She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams . |
| 13 | Because of the scale of its command over resources , the government can spread its risks over many projects and so is justified in undertaking more investment in research and development than would occur if left to the private sector . |
| 14 | The construction of climatic protection would surely encourage entrepreneurs to invest in leisure and entertainment facilities that would be without equal in the British Isles and would rival or eclipse most facilities abroad . |
| 15 | David Dale had been worried by the anarchistic stirrings in France and Europe and was anxious to provide a working environment that would satisfy and care for his work force , as well as increase production . |
| 16 | The daughter of a sea-NYMPH and HELIOS the sun god , Circe was a powerful sorceress who despised men and would poison and trick them whenever she could . |
| 17 | When Brau and Brunner AG and Cadbury Schweppes plc notified the creation of a joint venture that would prepare and sell mineral water , the Commission found that this joint venture was not a concentration but a cooperative agreement , because the parent companies would stay active on the soft drinks market and so the structure of competition would not be permanently altered , as it would with a concentration . |
| 18 | The actual conversation that would ensue as envisioned by the writer . |