Example sentences of "it would [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wintry landscape at Torside in early 1980 , as a lone 76047 makes for Dewsnap — it was doubtful however that it would haul a train back to Tinsley , there being very few daytime workings at this time . |
| 2 | If only one broadcaster wanted something , it would bear the cost . |
| 3 | Japan announced on Nov. 2 that it would reactivate a development loan programme for China which had been frozen after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 4 | If Richemont should buy out the Philip Morris stake it would trigger an obligation to bid for the rest of the shares . |
| 5 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 6 | Fretilín announced that it would boycott the investigation , dismissing military guarantees of safety for those giving evidence to the commission . |
| 7 | It 's a possibility , a solution , it would explain a lot of things . |
| 8 | I decided that a weak-minded wife was the most likely answer ; it would explain the seclusion , the taciturn servants . |
| 9 | If this is so , it would explain the situation seen around the mouth of the Conwy Estuary in North Wales ( Fig. 6(12) and Fig. 31 ) . |
| 10 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 11 | May 22 : Ukraine announced that it would hold a referendum in September on the future of the republic . |
| 12 | Parliament announced that it would hold an emergency debate on the accidents . |
| 13 | Switching from burying waste to burning it would represent a change of government policy . |
| 14 | It would represent a realignment within the humanities , not a diminution of them . |
| 15 | By the end of two weeks , Branson had the following locked firmly in his mind : the airline would not be an all business-class service — but it would combine an economy section with a first-class section at business-class prices . |
| 16 | One claimed that it would intimidate the press . |
| 17 | So construed , section 9(4) would have some effect , because it would prevent a court from ordering a Crown officer or servant to give evidence of the executive branch 's current attitudes or policies , but it would be of very limited scope . |
| 18 | But it would prevent the press from publishing calumnies which can not be answered , as in the Beck case , sometimes until weeks or even months after the allegation is made in the public arena of a court . |
| 19 | Treaty in as much as it would prevent the exercise of the right of establishment on a secondary basis . |
| 20 | It would prevent the destruction of rain forests and save our climate . |
| 21 | It acceded to an argument that it would prevent the defendant being employed by a grocer in selling dairy products in his shop . |
| 22 | This was held to be reasonable during employment but was construed as being too wide post employment as it would prevent the defendant becoming a medical officer of health in which capacity he could not prejudice the plaintiff 's goodwill . |
| 23 | On Feb. 21 Health Secretary Alberto Mazza denied that the government would close the border with Bolivia but said that it would prevent the entry of illegal immigrants in order to stem the spread of the disease . |
| 24 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 25 | Two days later , the Commons trade and industry select committee announced that it would conduct an inquiry into the whole affair . |
| 26 | It would bring a windfall of around 300,000 smackers to the Manor . |
| 27 | As this is over the inheritance tax threshold , it would bring a tax bill of £4,800 . |
| 28 | How could she , Melanie , have ever guessed that her uncle would be a monster with a voice so loud she was afraid it would bring the roof down and bury them all ? |
| 29 | Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work . |
| 30 | Soon it would reach the place where I had turned to the right . |