Example sentences of "so would [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 . |
| 2 | As the cooperative movement expanded , so would widen the net of an electorate committed to cooperation or , in the absence of cooperative candidates , to Labour . |
| 3 | Vice Chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls , declining to grant Venables the injunction he sought yesterday , said that to have done so would override the majority decision of the Spurs board , which had the right to ‘ hire and fire . ’ |
| 4 | But no one who thought so would treat the suggestion as an argument that the king can now , as the rules stand , move two steps once a game . |
| 5 | All of these pieces of evidence are relevant to cat , and so would increment the level of evidence in the logogen for cat : but they are relevant to other words too . |
| 6 | But I must say to the hon. Gentleman who suggests that it would be appropriate at present for this country to scrap its nuclear weapons and Trident that to do so would leave the country wholly defenceless . |
| 7 | All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe . |
| 8 | The directors , however , could argue that to do so would expose the company to adverse publicity . |
| 9 | Indeed , to do so would mean the reversal of a process that has , since the sixteenth century , relentlessly parted the commoner from his freehold and common rights , and reduced him to a landless labourer . |
| 10 | To do so would put the management team at risk of losing their employment , and even facing a claim for damages if the release of the information caused financial loss to the business . |
| 11 | If you do n't , you may find yourself unable to add the subtitles because to do so would entail the loss of too many good shots . |
| 12 | For instance , a cut in the basic rate of income tax would reduce the proportion of income taken in leakages and so would increase the value of the multiplier . |
| 13 | To do so would constitute a stumbling block to the reconversion of Protestants who favored the new astronomy . |
| 14 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 15 | Tacit collusion , on the other hand , would involve no explicit agreement but simply the unspoken acceptance by the two firms that it was in their best interests each to produce half the monopoly output on the understanding that failure to do so would provoke a price war . |
| 16 | To do so would require a delay of many years in order to put British Telecom 's accounts into a form that would make piecemeal disposals possible ’ . |
| 17 | To do so would run the risk of compromising the most vulnerable part of the operation . |
| 18 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 19 | If the x coins of year a were made , for example , a hundred years before the 2x coins of year b , it would be unwise to conclude that twice as many coins were made in year b , since to do so would take no account of the gradual wastage or erosion of coins of year a from circulation ( by accidental loss , hoarding , export of coinage , melting down , etc . ) . |
| 20 | I refused to pray , telling myself that doing so would demonstrate a lack of confidence in God . |