Example sentences of "[det] would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To further aid stability , concrete can be rammed near the base , but not under the base as this would form a sump where water can collect . |
| 2 | The Scrutiny team estimated that this would generate a need for an additional 500 lay advisers and 125 lawyers for the advice agencies . |
| 3 | This would suggest a turnover of around £330m , 12% up on the year before . |
| 4 | This would create a system of government rather like America 's , though with a somewhat stronger presidency . |
| 5 | But as Collard ( 1985 ) points out , this would create a threshold trap around point . |
| 6 | This would retain a selection of clinical services , including specialist cancer and neurological centres , and the new theatre suite which has an intensive-care style recovery room . |
| 7 | For the top teams in the group of eight this would mean a total of 40 league games as opposed to the 44 matches which will have to be fulfilled if the 12-club division continued for another season . |
| 8 | In the case of text recognition , this would mean a bottom-up flow of data and results , working from the character recognition stage to the application of world knowledge . |
| 9 | This would mean a bias to methods which give consumers a way of registering their preferences and those which encourage competition amongst suppliers . |
| 10 | For her , this would last a lifetime , because she loved him . |
| 11 | If not corrected , this would exclude a transfer of insurance business to or from the UK branch of an overseas life assurance company from the relevant intended relief . |
| 12 | They would devolve power to national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and to regional assemblies in England , and their hope is that this would promote a sense of national and regional identity while preserving the United Kingdom and a sense of belonging to a British community . |
| 13 | Studies of a European customs union in 1947–8 suggested that this would demand a revolution in British economic practices without necessarily bringing dramatic results . |
| 14 | This would represent a fall compared to the full-year figure for 1991 , but Greenpeace claims that the actual level of imports is in fact much higher because HMIP 's data collection is inadequate . |
| 15 | This would eliminate a half-mile journey by lorries , increase operating efficiency and enable BS to reduce its fleet of rail wagons , which need constant maintenance . |
| 16 | This would make a Nonsense of giving people more money to spend but can be expected from a Government which said it would Never devalue or leave the ERM and then did both . |
| 17 | There could be an Asquith Government with Conservative support and possibly participation ; but this would make a charade of the issue on which the election had been fought . |
| 18 | The purpose of the pit would appear to be to provide the maximum headroom using the minimum raw materials in the superstructure ; this would make a ground level plank floor something of a nonsense , an opinion shared by Welch ( 1985 , p. 23 , n.1 ) . |
| 19 | By leaving £5,000 to ACET , however , the taxable value of your estate is reduced to £135,000 and this would give a tax saving of £2,000 . |
| 20 | This would give a pattern of low rates in current and recent takers followed by somewhat higher rates in former takers . |
| 21 | If the receiver of the gift can not respond in due time with a ‘ counter-gift ’ ( counter gifts can not be given too soon after gifts , because this would imply a logic of calculation which would deplete the symbolic force of the exchange ) then the giver is in a position of creditor and the receiver in one of debtor . |
| 22 | And even assuming crazy building costs of £100 a foot and a 2.5 to one density , this would imply a site cost of £125 a square foot , an unheard-of figure , even in Dublin 4 . |
| 23 | The government , reversing the uncompromising stand of the previous government of President Virgilio Barco [ see pp. 36844 ; 36889-90 ; 37119 ] , had already offered to reduce sentences and promised not to extradite traffickers who surrendered and confessed , in the hope that this would halt a cycle of drug-related violence and killings . |
| 24 | The Strood delegate suggested that this would put a penny on the rates , but the Rochester delegate rejected the resolution . |
| 25 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |
| 26 | This would entail a view of nature as organic and ecological , rather than mechanistic ; an interpretation of lower forms of organisation in terms of higher ones , as well as vice versa ; an acknowledgment of sentience much further down the organisational ladder than is at present commonly imagined ; a biocentric ethic ; and a holistic approach to knowledge . |
| 27 | This would yield a measure of the annual cost of the bridge . |
| 28 | This would provide a base and headquarters for the proposed educational programme . |
| 29 | If correct , this would provide a counterexample to the cosmic censorship hypothesis . |
| 30 | This would provide a framework in which it would be possible to understand automatic processing at the tactical level . |