Example sentences of "would [vb infin] the [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all was degenerating into ritual farcical chaos around him , Lynn would remain the essence of sweet reason , achieving an almost transcendental calm and tranquillity partly because he retained an almost permanent inability to grasp the realities around him . |
| 2 | Precisely how these new popular energies would influence the world of high politics could not be anticipated : perhaps the movement would have to wait for one of Cobden 's ‘ accidents ’ . |
| 3 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
| 4 | A Centre Re policy would cover the firm for total claims of $10m during the three-year period . |
| 5 | If Mendoros could land the contract it would eliminate the danger of under- utilised assets — and simultaneously confer a kind of official recognition . |
| 6 | I was deeply interested in the outcome of these talks and the spirit animating them , for both would affect the task of public relations . |
| 7 | The IPG identified additional work to be done before the changeover : claimants may still have been entitled to special payments before they were abolished or entitled to benefits that they were not claiming that would affect the amount of transitional payments they would receive on transfer to the new system . |
| 8 | This was an inducement not to be ignored ; most parents , given the choice , would prefer the expectation of earthly survival for their children to the hope of heavenly reward . |
| 9 | Best believes Brady 's return to the fold would enhance the prospects of Irish success in Italy , but the most gifted Irish footballer of his generation insisted last night that there was no question of him changing his mind and resuming his international career . |
| 10 | This would enhance the authority of international law because of the inherent and self-evidently moral qualities of such an impartial legal process ; the ‘ bindingness ’ of international law would be increased because the aims of the enterprise — the peaceful resolution of international conflicts — would be assumed to be universally desirable . |
| 11 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 12 | Some of the options for the future of British Rail outlined in the 1983 Serpell Report would , if adopted , leave the network effectively only inter-main-cities , and would make the decline of rural railways almost complete . |
| 13 | Perhaps paradoxically , it is argued that the money supply should not be manipulated by the monetary authorities on a short-term basis because the existence of such lags would make the effect of monetary policy uncertain , although powerful . |
| 14 | But conversely , the failure of these mechanisms would explain the emergence of new production relations , which in turn would have consequences for other aspects of society . |
| 15 | This would explain the recovery of military equipment and weaponry from several sites , among them Cirencester with one of the largest collections . |
| 16 | This would explain the pre-eminence of various investment banks over the years and the inability of many new entrants to gain profitability . |
| 17 | This would facilitate the calculation of peristaltic velocity and the speed of contractility of gut smooth muscle with high temporal resolution . |
| 18 | Following the appointment of Jacques Chirac as Prime Minister in March , French broadcasting developed on radically more commercial lines : TFI , the national TV channel with traditionally the largest market share , was privatized ( spring 1986–87 ) ; in the following year the number of brands advertising on TFI doubled , the maximum authorized advertising minutes per hour — all six channels take advertising — rose to 12.3 In Britain , Conservative governments introduced commercial television in 1954–5 , and outlined broadcasting policies ( in the November 1988 white paper ) that would facilitate the development of commercial channels broadcasting by ( cable and ) satellite . |
| 19 | The rhetorical approach to social psychology would emphasize the importance of contrary themes within what can be loosely termed common sense . |
| 20 | The directors , however , could argue that to do so would expose the company to adverse publicity . |
| 21 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — ( a ) the person , institution or other body having the care of the person of the child was not actually exercising the custody rights at the time of removal or retention , or had consented to or subsequently acquiesced in the removal or retention ; or ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . … |
| 22 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — … ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . |
| 23 | The HCR — the legislative assembly during the transition period — was to ensure the implementation of the decisions of the conference ; it would have control over the executive , and would supervise the drafting of constitutional texts . |
| 24 | ( 1987 ) in their efforts to provide training that would maximize the effectiveness of indigenous paraprofessional social service workers was that such training should specifically seek to strengthen those very attributes that enable them to maintain contact with and work effectively in their own communities ( p. 15 ) . |
| 25 | Er on one side there seems to be a feeling that there should be no development and it would compromise the character of open countryside . |
| 26 | This would need the co-operation of non-Paris-club creditors , like Russia , to whom large sums are owed by former Soviet protégés , such as Ethiopia and Mozambique . |
| 27 | This would aggravate the problems of urban penetration into essentially rural areas described by Herington ( 1984 ) and would also reduce the options available for dealing with the difficulties faced by lower-income groups in the London area ( Eversley , 1972 ; Buck et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | But a swing of less than four per cent would win the seat for Liberal Democrat Nigel Jones . |
| 29 | A swing of a mere one and a half per cent would win the seat for Liberal Democrat Gwynoro Jones who was Labour MP in the early seventies . |
| 30 | Maybe I would explore the possibility of early retirement in the end . |