Example sentences of "[Wh det] would [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1690s the Scottish government gave its support to a proposal intended to enable the country to escape from all its economic problems : a trading company was to be launched which would set up a commercial centre at Darien on the Panama Isthmus . |
| 2 | Another new instrument that the Commission will be considering next year is a revised draft of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture , which would set up an international system of visits to places of detention , aimed at preventing torture and ill-treatment . |
| 3 | ‘ We would like the Community to work towards a simple document — a European Record of Achievement — which would set out an individual jobseeker 's qualifications and experience in a way which could be recognised easily by employers in other countries . ’ |
| 4 | Carl Sagan , the distinguished astrophysicist , suggested in 1961 that Venus could be made habitable to earthlings if it were seeded with blue-green algae , which would split up the carbon and oxygen molecules to glean the carbon necessary for the glucose and carbohydrate diets they would need . |
| 5 | With Lytton Strachey 's Elizabeth and Essex as their source , they invented scenes which would open out the twin deltas of their story ; Elizabeth the monarch and Elizabeth the woman . |
| 6 | This , more developed , scheme outlined the much criticized recommendation of setting up an inner Cabinet of five which would carry out the needed programme of economic reform . |
| 7 | In December the formation of a Command of the People 's Army was announced which would carry out the professional management of the defence forces ; Lt-Gen Kalman Loerincz became commander , with the government rank of State Secretary . |
| 8 | The three principal tasks of the proposed congress would be ( i ) to set out the broad principles within which the detailed constitutional work could be carried out ; ( ii ) to determine the make-up of the body which would draw up the constitution ; and ( iii ) to establish an interim government to oversee the transition process until a new government was in place . |
| 9 | He claimed that the Government 's vision of enabling authorities — those which would contract out the operation of services — was greatly exaggerated . |
| 10 | During the summer of 1716 , a sensitive time since i August marked the anniversary of King George 's alleged usurpation of the throne , considerable unrest occurred in London where taverns associated with the Whigs were attacked by mobs which would break up the premises but leave enough of the stock undamaged to drink the health of ‘ James III ’ . |
| 11 | To add a new word into the dawg , the current structure would need to be searched both forwards and backwards to establish whether or not the required paths exist , which would slow down the building algorithm ( see section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 12 | Between Alice and Mary and Reggie took place the accounting session which would bring in a regular contribution to the household . |
| 13 | Mr Vassiliou , 61 , seeking a second five-year term , helped to draw up the formula as a basis for negotiation which would bring down the dividing ‘ green line ’ . |
| 14 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 15 | Using our description above ( pp. 11 – 12 ) , construct a brief summary of the main points which would make up an instance of each of the following TYPES of argument about the book : |
| 16 | The new road bridge spanning the Dornoch Firth was suggested as having a dual role — carrying both road and rail , the rail section to be a new piece of line which would cut out a long detour and dramatically reduce the journey time to the Far North . |
| 17 | The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State , which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Words such as ‘ unsown ’ and ‘ snow ’ or ‘ star ’ and ‘ stir ’ , along with many others like each other in this way make this a poem without the reader being aware of any rhyme which would take out a lot of the emotion . |
| 19 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 20 | , director of the SFO , said that the introduction of plea bargaining would be ‘ the single most important reform ’ which would speed up the disposal of cases . |
| 21 | The best that could be achieved in western Europe was a dispersed defensive strategy which would bog down an offensive , in case of war , and so give time for negotiation . |
| 22 | That we adopt a system of Primary and Secondary Visits which would operate over a two year period . |
| 23 | Lords and peasants were given two years to prepare charters which would map out the peasants ' " portions of arable land " and define the extent of their " obligations " . |
| 24 | A very successful use for this light when knitting tuck is to use a medium thickness fluffy yarn , one which would knit over every needle on your machine , but instead use it on every other needle . |
| 25 | He therefore made a radical break with the French socialist tradition of speculation on the details of a socialist society , in favour of developing the real working class movement against capitalism which would work out the ‘ details of socialism ’ in the process of struggle . |
| 26 | Or we could apply some kind of transformation which would stretch out the tails of the distribution , which would let us stick with arithmetic procedures and avoid multiplicative models . |
| 27 | You have to be careful , you ca n't actually say that Nick represents this or that , you have to say that George thinks that he represents and sort of a kind of genetic engineering which would turn out a generation of perfect people , alright . |
| 28 | Should the prevailing interest rate be greater than Oi l , there would be an excess supply of money ( or excess demand for bonds ) which would push up the price of bonds and push down interest rates , back towards the equilibrium . |
| 29 | Pensioners ' groups also demanded the cancellation of the energy price rises , arguing that they would lead to increases in food prices which would cancel out the benefits of recent improvements to pensions . |