Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , we thought it 'd rain this year so it 's more |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it 'd last another year , but wi ’ the rain this summer I shall have to get it fixed . |
| 3 | Cos if you did n't have that it 'd make this room more viable in as much as erm , the point of view of doing doing catering and , functions and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | ‘ If you grew something like carrots it 'd make some sense . |
| 5 | It controls many trade unions including some of the big confederations , most notably the Shanghai General Labour Union , a sort of T U C really , erm for , do n't know whether it would bear much relation to the modern T U C in Britain , the erm , the sort of confederation uniting all of the unions in Shanghai , controlled by the Communist Party . |
| 6 | He said that Buthelezi 's approach threatened to bring him into " direct confrontation " with the government in Pretoria.The ANC said that Buthelezi 's purpose was to sabotage national negotiations and that it would boycott any referendum called to test the plan . |
| 7 | The CDP has hitherto resisted such a proposal on the grounds that it would represent direct competition with university applicants who might thereby fail to see the polytechnics as a clear alternative and because it would restrict student choice to a limited number of institutions . |
| 8 | The introduction of grant-maintained schools was perhaps the most controversial proposal in the Education Reforms Act 1988 , and one which was justified primarily on the grounds that it would extend parental choice in education . |
| 9 | It would ban all advertising of tobacco products except at the point of sale , ie the newsagent 's shop or supermarket counter . |
| 10 | If there were an art fair in Gambia it would bring more business than London . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Major bragged about his opt-out from the social chapter , saying that it would attract foreign investment from Britain 's neighbours . |
| 12 | Auguste had added the course in the interests of the Prince of Wales ; it was to be served virtually at the same time as the entrée , in defiance of the rules , in the hope it would attract less attention . |
| 13 | Because of the pressure on Drigg this was the most urgent requirement , and it was hoped that it would attract less opposition than the Billingham mine . |
| 14 | It would bankrupt any economy . |
| 15 | With luck , it would contain enough information to trace its owner . |
| 16 | It would spell financial ruin and possibly the end . |
| 17 | Because of course if you were to tape record analytic sessions , it would change that nature of the , of the analysis . |
| 18 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 19 | He envisaged this as a well-balanced wheel driven by a lead weight suspended from its axle so that it would make one revolution between sunrise and sunset . |
| 20 | It would make one regret to lose it and yet I shall think nothing but that loss wanting to complete my happiness . |
| 21 | It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making . |
| 22 | However , when teacher appraisal is a firm part of educational reform , it would make better sense if certain aspects of management in initial teacher education could consciously be brought together with the assessment of teacher capacity . |
| 23 | If the Loyalists are so determined to live under British rule , it would make economic sense for them to be assisted to move to the mainland . |
| 24 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 25 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
| 26 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
| 27 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 28 | It would make little difference what time of day it was . |
| 29 | It would make good sense to increase that cadre of coaches to five . |
| 30 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |