Example sentences of "[adv] that [adj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties . |
| 2 | The driver sounds so genuinely distressed , it seems churlish to complain ( not that that would do much good ) . |
| 3 | Not that that would stop the terrorists from acting pretty well as they pleased . |
| 4 | Not that that would bother Constantinos . |
| 5 | Not that that would bother most people nowadays . |
| 6 | ‘ Not that any would have anything to do with you ! |
| 7 | Not that this would have made the slightest difference to the outcome . |
| 8 | They had been a unit , had shared jokes , exchanged small gifts , written to each other when unable to meet for a week or two ; the assumption was always that this would continue , and expand . |
| 9 | If 2 had been going to choose A , she would work out that 1 would plan to choose B , in which case she would change her planned action to whatever is the best response to B , so falsifying the initial assumption that she would choose A. Thus 1 can not persist in believing 2 will choose A if he knows that she is as rational and well-informed as he is . |
| 10 | The farmer 's servants were all for pulling out the weeds but the farmer pointed out that this would mean that some of the good wheat would also be lost . |
| 11 | The King pressed for formal consideration , to which Baldwin agreed , although pointing out that this would involve both the Cabinet and the Dominion Prime Ministers . |
| 12 | Someone has pointed out that this would require an ability to control the Royal Mail to ensure that letters did not get lost ! |
| 13 | As that that would make all all a lot of crimes stop . |
| 14 | I can not be sure now that that would happen . |
| 15 | Industrialists do not want to return to Labour party policies because they know full well that that would mean Front-Bench Labour Members taking decisions instead of them . |
| 16 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |