Example sentences of "[art] effect would [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside . |
| 2 | Over the centuries , Ayrshire 's loss may have been the world 's gain but one must wonder what the effect would have been if some of the intelligent and ambitious people who left had stayed at home . |
| 3 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 4 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 5 | I find that whenever I notice some sentence in context , I immediately find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . |
| 6 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 7 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 8 | In other words , the effect would have been that , even where official DSS error was proven and admitted in the case of those receiving supplementary benefit prior to 1988 , no back payment to rectify the error would have been made . |