Example sentences of "[conj] it would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In South Antrim , the constituency of the present writer , no satisfaction was received on the matter until an exasperated meeting of my own constituency party presented the Westite Official Unionists with an ultimatum that either ‘ UUUC ’ appear on the literature and posters of their candidate or it would present its own rival one . |
| 2 | She had known their affair had to end or it would destroy them both , but now that it was about to do so , she was terrified of a future in which there would be no Luke , not even Luke causing her unhappiness . |
| 3 | Not that it would stop him buying his son a small biplane , a Gypsy Moth , for his twenty-first . |
| 4 | ‘ But the vendor told me that it would stop anyone getting access to the computer ! ’ |
| 5 | Both Japan and South Korea had expressed reservations about Dunkel 's draft accord on the grounds that it would oblige them to open their rice markets by imposing " tariffication " under which import quotas would be converted into tariffs [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 6 | I realized then that the lamp had been put behind me so that it would light her entrance ; and it was an entrance to take the breath away . |
| 7 | I hoped that it would distract his mind from his problems at work . |
| 8 | Not that it would restrict our investigations ; but the murderer might not know that . ’ |
| 9 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 10 | Kathleen was worried that it would upset him , but he seemed quite relaxed , laughing over incidents and reminiscing out loud . |
| 11 | He knew that it would make her feel inferior and stupid and insignificant beside the sultry Domino and her no doubt dazzling sexual experience ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
| 13 | Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing . |
| 14 | Among the birds , body-armour is absent for the obvious reason that it would make them too heavy to fly . |
| 15 | Thousands of people took AZT in the hope that it would make them feel better and live longer . |
| 16 | The one major drawback with this proposal to ‘ give Channel Four its freedom ’ is that it would make it compete with the existing ITV companies . |
| 17 | Although revised , in its final form the bill did not assuage White House misgivings that it would make it too easy for plaintiffs to prove discrimination , and would force employers to impose hiring and promotion quotas based on race and sex in order to avoid expensive law suits . |
| 18 | I 'm sure that it would make us more careful the months before . |
| 19 | She had assumed all along that the only reason her father could possibly have for even considering selling the club was concern that she , Rory , could n't cope with running it , that it would prove too much of a burden for her — that it would hold her back from her own career . |
| 20 | By March 19th the ruling Kuomintang had twisted enough old arms in the assembly to ensure that it would drop its plans . |
| 21 | He argued , along with Balcon , Pearson and Woolf , that it would do nothing to achieve the FBI 's objectives . |
| 22 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 23 | Satisfied that it would bring them exactly down to the point he wanted on the starboard side of Lord Jim , he asked — " How do you feel about your husband ? " |
| 24 | Knowing what he would find when he went there , and knowing that it would pain him , Edouard delayed the moment when he would make a formal inspection of the house . |
| 25 | Bina who never dreamed — Bina whose moods they all dismissed as ‘ adolescence ’ — Bina who they 'd trained not to let on what she really felt , who did n't even know what she did feel — that same Bina had a dream each night , and she wrote down every single word of it so that it would tell her how to be different , be real , really be . |
| 26 | If you are the guard you have to wear a blindfold because you are armed with a laser torch which is so powerful that it would blind you if you could see it . |
| 27 | The problem with capitalism was not that it would fall , but that it would continue its remarkable success in raising real output and real consumption per capita , which in turn would have the effects of undermining those very social institutions on which its success depended , and creating a civilisation hostile to its continued existence . |
| 28 | The hunger strikes were called off on Oct. 20 , although the PPD said that it would continue its boycott of the National Assembly . |
| 29 | However , the CITUB announced that it would continue its strike until it saw guarantees of the character of the new government . |
| 30 | The Taiwanese Defence Ministry said on April 24 that it would continue its loudspeaker broadcasts to the mainland , which it claimed were aimed at " keeping our mainland compatriots informed of free world developments " . |