Example sentences of "it would [adv] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 'd only take a minute to get back and then all this would be over .
2 It would however produce a stress concentration of 201 among the molecules near the crack tip .
3 It would rather mount a protest over student grants ( probably in the UK the most generous in the world per student ) than attempt to frame a Charter of the academic rights which should fall to every student .
4 This is highly price sensitive information from which a conglomerate could make a profit or avoid a loss , but it would rarely constitute a breach of the the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 .
5 If a newspaper commissioned a political poll based on the opinion of a single person it would immediately become a laughing-stock .
6 It would immediately become a project of prime importance , far too serious to leave any loose ends hanging free .
7 It would also represent a declaration that the conditions and the justice inflicted on him were an atrocity that should never be repeated .
8 The committee would be likely to consider a suggestion by Lord Donaldson that case separation might be needed where the public had an interest in the outcome of a case but it would also play a role as representative of those who actually used legal services , he said .
9 The necessary correlative , particularly amongst liberals , before and during the wars was caution about threatening the social order ; it would also mark a form of corruption in the Christian dynamic of antislavery .
10 My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success .
11 I looked at this detail with some interest , thinking it would probably tell a psychologist a great deal about Victor Frankenstein 's thought processes during this period of his engagement .
12 If they did anything it would probably bring a response from the West
13 Discs was a Viking on a rape and pillage tour , it would probably write a letter to apologise afterwards .
14 Aye it would probably help a bit .
15 It would probably take a week of rain like this to reduce the forest-fire hazard . ’
16 And this money would have to be spent in the knowledge that it would never produce a profit , only the hope of a safer world .
17 But it would still make a bomb that could flatten much of a city and drench the place with fall-out .
18 Although inclusion on the registers would not mean land was actually contaminated , developers feared it would inevitably mean a drop in values .
19 And it would certainly send a message to the Independent Ratepayers … ’
20 It would certainly reduce a lot of bureaucracy .
21 This last the verderers thought the least likely course because the escape had been made nearer to the north of the depression than the south and it would therefore take a day longer to get round it on that side .
22 It would now take a motorist burping their horn or a dog barking nearby to get her hopping mad , which was real progress .
23 No further progress was made on Jan. 31 , 1990 , and the North indicated that it would only attend a meeting set for March 7 if the Team Spirit exercises were called off .
24 If the firm were simply to invest £50,000 on the capital market it would only produce a zero NPV .
25 I thought it would only take a couple of days to clear up , but it was to take quite a lot longer .
26 It would only take a couple of houses to be knocked down and they could make it into a dual carriage way .
27 It would only take a change of attitude amongst men to improve the situation out of all recognition .
28 It would only take a computer error or a mutiny by some of those manning the weapons to trigger a global war .
29 Meanwhile , the pilot of Beyond Our Ken was listened to by the BBC mandarins , who decided they liked a great deal about it and decreed it would definitely become a radio series .
30 Nor do I think the bank had any idea of the effect its action would have : that it would potentially create a loss for itself and other creditors . ’
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