Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] would [vb infin] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take the grid company back into public ownership would cost about £2 billion . |
| 2 | A small , middle-of-the-range electronic organ would cost about £7,000 and churches would be unwise to consider anything less than this . |
| 3 | The Taiwanese government said last week that the rate of population growth this year would dip below 1% for the first time , to 0.95% , and forecast zero growth by 2035 . |
| 4 | According to chief executive Max Pearce , the loss for this year would total around £500,000 . |
| 5 | Start saving Robert , Dick Hansen estimates that a restoration of this calibre would bring over £712,000 at auction today . |
| 6 | The slaves themselves needed the pidgin as a lingua franca , not just for communication with their captors , but to communicate among themselves ; a typical cargo would bring together slaves from many language groups , and on arrival in the American ports , they were deliberately split up to reduce the likelihood of conspiracies . |
| 7 | Interviews with 200 such customers would cost around £2,500 through a market research agency . |
| 8 | Left : to tile a fireplace in a similar fashion would cost about £170 . |
| 9 | A similar design would cost about £8,188 ( self-assembly ) |
| 10 | These waves would carry away energy and would cause the electrons to spiral into the nucleus , producing the collapse of the atom . |
| 11 | According to the region , removing the existing districts would save about £4.4 million a year , which is equivalent to a cut of £62 in the council tax . |
| 12 | One delegate opted for Polish Labour Party because he thought the present name would scare away farmers and intellectuals . |
| 13 | Labour recovered its confidence here and firmly promised that a future Labour government would return both electricity and water to public ownership and control . |
| 14 | Upgrading by one star would cost about £1000 . |
| 15 | To become a JANET site in our own right would cost approximately £10,000 initial registration fee , but this would give us complete control over the security and budget of the communication system , for the free exchange of non-commercial information between research institutions , which is not currently possible . |
| 16 | Even under the old Labour scheme somebody on £130 a week would pay £26 in national insurance — employers and employees contributions combined — whereas under the Conservative proposals somebody on the same earnings would pay only £19.24 . |
| 17 | The aims and objectives of all experiments were not always formulated as clearly as possible and there was sometimes a tendency for instrumentation to be set up in the hope that a specific problem would arise once measurements were obtained . |
| 18 | Half a century before , it is true , H. G. Wells and Havelock Ellis had proclaimed that socialism would require the extermination of the unfit by the state ; and soon after , Bernard Shaw had urged scientists to devise painless methods of killing , since the new society would tolerate only workers , and the doctrine of the sanctity of human life , like all doctrines of sanctity , was antiquated claptrap . |
| 19 | The transport department estimates that a charge of about 1.5 pence a mile for cars and vans and 4.5 pence for other vehicles would divert about 10% of vehicle miles at peak periods . |
| 20 | A typical configuration supporting four technical people and 20 engineers would cost about $45,000 . |