Example sentences of "it would [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would bring to £100,000 the amount Greater Glasgow Health Board has paid Anne McWilliams since her accident almost ten years ago , a judge had been told . |
| 2 | It would lead to lack of competition in local retailing and an increasing reliance on basic ‘ no frills ’ stores , selling only a restricted range of products . |
| 3 | One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining , and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences . |
| 4 | Opposing proposals to import a further 5 million tonnes of coal , he presented evidence that this was both unnecessary given the trends of productivity and costs within British Coal , and damaging to long-term energy policy since it would lead to pit closures and the sterilization of up to 150 million tonnes of coal reserves . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , so old Wilson used to tell us that lots of men opposed it because they felt it would lead to women in trousers sitting in pubs drinking pints of bitter . |
| 6 | The assistant treasurer of the league , Jim Hampton , said it would lead to teams packing up because the volunteers running the teams could not afford the extra cost . |
| 7 | It is rather less easy to see how it would lead to interference effects like those described in Chapter 4 . |
| 8 | If a statutory definition were to be promulgated , it would lead to confusion , and a spate of litigation . |
| 9 | As we can see , it would lead to curvature of space–time in the absence of all matter and radiation ( ) . |
| 10 | If only I had wings , Oh what a difference it would make to things , All day long I 'd be in the sky , up on high , Talking to the birdies that pass me by |
| 11 | ‘ Imagine what it would mean to Britain if you had a player in Manchester and a player in Liverpool who won Wimbledon and the US Open , ’ he said , boggling the mind . |
| 12 | And it would matter to James , too . |
| 13 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 14 | This present mayor was away on holiday at the time , he said perhaps that I should of seen that erm it would go to committee |
| 15 | Yes , what 's , what 's happened if we were at Sandhurst Auction it would go to Reading and then be re-directed to Aldershot and then |
| 16 | PLANS to build a petrol filling station have been rejected by councillors because of the disturbance it would cause to people living nearby . |
| 17 | However the parish council disapproved of the plan because of the possible distraction it would cause to drivers . |
| 18 | It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law ‘ by the back door . ’ |
| 19 | It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law ‘ by the back door . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It would happen to Howard ! |
| 21 | Without them it would fall to pieces . ’ |
| 22 | Those who thought it would fall to pieces within 5000 miles were confounded , even if those who hoped it would sail the test with BMW-like dependability could hardly crow about its reliability record . |
| 23 | It would respond to concerns referred to it , rather than being naturally intrusive , and so would operate more effectively than an SEC . |
| 24 | Under the theory that light is made up of waves , it was not clear how it would respond to gravity . |
| 25 | It appealed to me , but I did n't think it would appeal to Simon Bates . |
| 26 | I think it would skip to environment being the prerogative of local authorities , there will be a great variation across the country , and I do n't think anybody seriously would expect that to happen about health and safety at work , and I think the same should be true of the environment . |
| 27 | If adopted , it would apply to calendar year 1993 statements . |
| 28 | The year after this Act was passed , Tory MP Winston Churchill tried to extend the scope of the Obscene Publications Act so that it would apply to television . |
| 29 | NEC said that initially in markets outside Japan it would look to sales through OEM channels — it currently has OEM relationships with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , and Stratus Computers Inc , whose fault-tolerant systems it buys for sale in Japan . |
| 30 | NEC said that initially in markets outside Japan it would look to sales through OEM channels — it currently has OEM relationships with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , and Stratus Computers Inc , whose fault-tolerant systems it buys for sale in Japan . |