Example sentences of "would [verb] resulted from " in BNC.

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1 It might perhaps be wondered why , when the locks were being renovated in 1909 , the opportunity was not taken to adapt the side-ponds , to combine the need to re-fill the lock quickly with the kind of water economy which would have resulted from the more conventional side-pond system .
2 It is difficult to put these sums into context for there is no knowing what benefit has been achieved compared to what would have resulted from some other social expenditure .
3 The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it .
4 While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants .
5 Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow .
6 Rather belatedly , Crick and Linsley ( 1983 ) estimated that a total of 20 ‘ health effects ’ ( cancer deaths plus hereditary effects in the first two generations ) would have resulted from the accident .
7 The presence in such deserts as the Sahara of vast lakes such as mega-Chad which overflowed into the Bodele depression south of the Tibesti seems more the sort of feature which would have resulted from increased Pleistocene rainfall .
8 Such calculations take absolutely no account of the increased taxation and inflation which would have resulted from the pursuit of the policy that the hon. Gentleman is advocating .
9 Three-quarters of all the cases would have resulted from heterosexual transmission .
10 He was not prepared , however , to involve himself in the European war which would have resulted from a substantial direct intervention in Turkish affairs .
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