Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] would [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report by Chinese scientists in the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Committee claimed , however , that flooding would not be effectively controlled , that silt would regularly incapacitate turbines and that 1,000,000 people would have to be moved . |
| 2 | In 1987 it began to turn its attention to the inner urban areas , with the idea of opening small factories , workshops and offices in the hope that private industry would then follow suit . |
| 3 | Fissuring of an atherosclerotic plaque would also expose collagen fibres , and the adhering platelets could release agents such as thromboxane A 2 and ADP , which would rapidly lead to adhesion and aggregation of more platelets and growth of the thrombus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such a climatic change would severely limit pine growth by causing waterlogging , encouraging bog expansion , and inhibiting regeneration by reducing the number of good seed-years . |
| 6 | Three years later , this question would much trouble Boswell . |
| 7 | Our shipwrecked hero would probably become king ; he would kill a great many blacks in the struggle for existence ; he would have a great many wives and children , while many of his subjects would live and die as bachelors … |
| 8 | This difference would necessarily secure traffic to the Railway , and by cheapening the cost would increase the consumption . |
| 9 | In practice this investigation would normally take place before an offer was made and certainly before exchange of contracts . |
| 10 | This procedure would best suit states torn by civil strife which is fuelled by the support of the superpowers ( or China ) for rival political or military factions or by the involvement of superpower ‘ proxy ’ forces . |
| 11 | Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20-0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . |
| 12 | Even light rainfall would significantly increase deposition rates . |
| 13 | The State Department would select an able adviser to assist General Hodge : this official would gradually assume direction of political affairs and would act as a ‘ tutor ’ to the Interim Legislative Assembly . |
| 14 | This fund would only benefit member countries with a per capita income of less than 90 per cent of the EC average ( i.e. Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ) . |
| 15 | The marginalization of consciousness in this way would certainly make life simpler for those attempting to understand our cognitive processes , but unfortunately Libet 's conclusions do not follow from his data . |
| 16 | Quite clearly , this cost would far outweigh Labour 's anticipated ‘ saving ’ . |
| 17 | This option would best suit farmers ' sons , provided : ( a ) the farm could spare them , and ( b ) employment was available . |
| 18 | This observation would also support Fries 's compression of morbidity thesis ( 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Building societies are going easy on customers in arrears at the moment because their selling many more repossessed homes in this market would simply drive prices down even further . |
| 20 | Higher inflation would enable old capital to stay competitive , but profitable capacity would then exceed market demand . |
| 21 | Too much sympathy would only encourage self-pity . |
| 22 | At the outbreak of World War I , both informed and common opinion held that a major , probably decisive , naval action would soon take place between the British and German fleets . |
| 23 | If the magazine ever publishes an article called , ‘ What Embalmers Get Up To In Their Spare Time ’ the following photograph would surely earn pride of place . |
| 24 | ‘ Any such assistance would drastically distort competition and result in job losses on ships , most of which are British-crewed , on routes between the UK and Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 25 | Central government would thus retain responsibility primarily for defence and some foreign policy issues . |
| 26 | After passing a first-year course in Spanish , students in their second year would normally learn Portuguese from scratch and take a course on ‘ Culture and Society in the Portuguese-speaking World ’ , together with their second-level course in Spanish . |
| 27 | Such activity would further promote contacts between individuals either susceptible to or infected with micro-organisms . |
| 28 | Substitution of Lys430 in patient B ( equivalent to Lys295 of v-src ) within the ATP-binding site would completely abolish kinase activity . |
| 29 | In every case , they are people whose sudden loss would substantially reduce profits , who are difficult to replace , and whose loss would hinder business development . |
| 30 | Natural selection would surely eliminate creatures with such oddities , not preserve them . " |