Example sentences of "it would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a ring of thorn trees that we never cut , d'ye see ? for they said 't would annoy the Little People . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , it is said that it would upset the constitutional balance between the courts and the executive if the Crown could be held in contempt of court for disobeying a prerogative order of prohibition or mandamus . |
| 3 | Erm , if members do n't like the word consumer then I think they would have to use public , er it does cover , I I think the title County Public Protection Officer would er , er satisfy Mr and I do n't think it would upset the Chief Fire Officer . |
| 4 | If only one broadcaster wanted something , it would bear the cost . |
| 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 | This followed Iran 's May 20 announcement that it would boycott the annual pilgrimage to Mecca ( the haj ) for the third successive year after Saudi Arabia had refused to withdraw its 45,000 quota limit for Iranian pilgrims . |
| 7 | On April 3 the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) led by Hocine Aït Ahmed announced that it would boycott the June elections , which it described as " a real farce because everything is done in accordance with FLN interests " . |
| 8 | Fretilín announced that it would boycott the investigation , dismissing military guarantees of safety for those giving evidence to the commission . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he perked up , ‘ if it is the Old Ones , it would explain the telepathic pollution , and there 'll be more to it that we have n't thought about yet , but we 'll find out later . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | I decided that a weak-minded wife was the most likely answer ; it would explain the seclusion , the taciturn servants . |
| 12 | It would explain the extraordinary letter about the cheque — an act of ludicrous personal generosity to help Ingard out of a hole , or , perhaps , more sanely , to try to preserve the shipping company from going down if the rest of the empire crashed . |
| 13 | It would explain the abnormalities of emotion and language , because of the specialisation in function of the two hemispheres . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 16 | One claimed that it would intimidate the press . |
| 17 | It would prevent the destruction of rain forests and save our climate . |
| 18 | Such an order would impinge upon the operation of the organisation ; it would prevent the International Tin Council from having its Headquarters in the place stipulated by the treaty , and its members would be unable to perform their treaty obligations . |
| 19 | Treaty in as much as it would prevent the exercise of the right of establishment on a secondary basis . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It acceded to an argument that it would prevent the defendant being employed by a grocer in selling dairy products in his shop . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | Explain why you chose each type of window , and why you think it would show the goods to best advantage . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues . |
| 29 | Soon it would reach the place where I had turned to the right . |
| 30 | A picture like this would make a marvellous gift for someone moving into their new home , as it would continue the theme of welcome . |