Example sentences of "[adj] that [adj] [noun pl] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear that some clients would let their whole lives revolve around daily contact with their dealers . |
| 2 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 3 | The city was in chaos and we were afraid that armed men would attack us . |
| 4 | If the law were changed in the way we suggest it is at least possible that such men would prefer to seek relations with older persons which would not render them liable to prosecution . |
| 5 | The guitar 's overall finish is faultless : the vintage turquoise body and clear lacquered neck set a standard that many manufacturers would love to emulate . |
| 6 | Even before the epic success of the 1991 Davis Cup final in Lyon , which left me ever more passionately against such an idea , I was convinced that such changes would do more harm than good . |
| 7 | He blamed the weak links at federal level for shortcomings in the Yugoslav programme on Kosovo , but was convinced that constitutional changes would help resolve some of these problems . |
| 8 | If some special mechanism such as that implicated in the ‘ Now Print ! ’ theory ( Brown and Kulik , 1977 ; Livingston , 1967a 1967b ) were operating in cases of flashbulb memories it is likely that similar findings would have been observed in the eyewitness testimony literature . |
| 9 | In practice , the issues may never be put to the test because it is very likely that other parties would succeed in preventing referenda , but it is still enough of a departure for some evangelical DUP activists to have been initially opposed to the change . |
| 10 | However , it is likely that fixed costs would increase , but we have no available information to assess this possible option . |
| 11 | Indeed , it seems highly likely that working-class families would have controlled family size through the old , rather than new , techniques . |
| 12 | Many of them are in old , dilapidated buildings , and it is likely that some authorities would take the opportunity to reduce surplus places by closing them . |
| 13 | It was inevitable that great changes would take place during the 140 million years , including extinctions of genera and sub-orders , if not entire orders . |
| 14 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 15 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 16 | She told protestors that the Health Service must move with the times and it was inevitable that some hospitals would close as the nation 's health needs changed . |
| 17 | Under the assembly 's system of apportioning positions on committees and on the 26 standing delegations to foreign parliaments , mathematical logic made it inevitable that far-right members would receive a few sensitive posts . |
| 18 | Mr Maclean said the use of £2.3 million of taxpayers ' money in buying Orford Ness seemed a lot , but he was sure that future historians would regard it as money well spent . |
| 19 | I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders . |
| 20 | I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders . |
| 21 | There are many reasons why it has been difficult for researchers to form links with universities , he says , with some not even sure that particular departments would survive investigations into the competence and integrity of the professors . |
| 22 | I am sure that hon. Members would prefer to hear a more considered account tomorrow . |
| 23 | But , particularly since Tiananmen , it has been echoing the argument that people would be less concerned to leave Hong Kong before 1997 if they could be absolutely confident that other countries would accept them after that date . |
| 24 | On the one hand , the barons were confident that few clergy would rally to the support of Edward II . |
| 25 | Ian Bond , the liquidator , said yesterday : ‘ Without the order , we were concerned that some litigants would have won summary judgment in their favour without us being able to defend ourselves properly . |
| 26 | But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 28 | ‘ Without Urban Programme funding it is unlikely that these schemes would have been undertaken in their present form , especially those requiring capital funding . |
| 29 | It is unlikely that these techniques would have required a check in the action . |
| 30 | Reddy estimates that Karnataka could meet its energy needs better than it could under current plans , while avoiding the doubling of CO 2 by the year 2000 that those plans would bring . |