Example sentences of "he [verb] [that] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it would cost him more money if he went the other way . |
| 2 | He says that it would make an ideal site for tourist related businesses . |
| 3 | He estimated that it would cost the country some A$500 million ( US$380 million ) in lost minerals , and called for compensation for the " expropriation " of the assets of Newcrest shareholders . |
| 4 | He added that it would take many more years to establish a healthy pattern of development , especially since there is no communications infrastructure . |
| 5 | He did not believe in the new property tax ; he believed that it would constitute theft from the old ladies living down the road , who would consequently vote against the Tories . |
| 6 | I wondered if he believed that it would kill me . |
| 7 | In 1836 one pamphleteer urged the creation of a " Diplomatic College " for this purpose ( though significantly he assumed that it would produce only attachés , secretaries and consuls and that ambassadors and ministers would always be appointed on grounds of " rank and property " ) . |
| 8 | He would never have supported cooperative politics had he thought that it would develop a Cooperative Party , pure and simple , antagonistic to the main democratic Labour movement . |
| 9 | The following statement is the conclusion of a report drawn up for the debenture holders of the Bishop 's Castle Railway by Mr. Fraser , now the auditor of the Cambrian , in which he shows that it would pay to make this line independently of any other . |
| 10 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 11 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 12 | He knew that it would make her feel inferior and stupid and insignificant beside the sultry Domino and her no doubt dazzling sexual experience ! |
| 13 | Yet he must somehow tear the pain out with his hands or he knew that it would kill him . |
| 14 | A proposal put forward by Mona Wilson , a feminist employed at the Ministry of Reconstruction during World War I , to make provision for all one-parent families outside the Poor Law , failed because , in the view of the Government Actuary , first it was too expensive and , secondly , by abandoning the principles of the 1834 Act , he feared that it would lead to an increase in illegitimacy . |
| 15 | He maintains that it would provide greater certainty for economic agents as to the governments likely policy reasons ; the government could establish/maintain a reputation for consistency and commitment . |
| 16 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 17 | He said that it would proceed broadly in line with the first phase , begun in 1991 [ see p. 38479 ] . |
| 18 | Indeed Welford Beaton , like many other Hollywood figures , thought that Vidor had carried ‘ realism just a little farther than the public will prove willing to follow ’ and he brilliantly argued that films had to give hope and to show a way forward , but he did conceded that The Crowd was one of the best films ever made and he hoped that it would inspire further ventures into realism . |
| 19 | He hoped that it would lead to similar moves by other countries . |
| 20 | He hoped that it would express disquiet at the circumstances of the Tully-West shooting and would call publicly for an independent inquiry . |