Example sentences of "would [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
2 | Industrial production ( up by 2 per cent in 1989 ) , would fall as would agricultural production ( which had increased by 5 per cent in 1989 ) . |
3 | In his An Inquiry into the Causes of the Progressive Depreciation of Agricultural Labour in Modern Times ( 1820 ) and A Statement of the Consequences Likely to Ensue from our Growing Excess of Population ( 1830 ) Barton argued that only where land was cheap and plentiful would economic growth be maximized and accordingly favoured emigration schemes and colonization of Canada . |
4 | New restaurant tables and chairs — In this case Replacement cost is likely to equal historic cost so either of these would be acceptable as would economic value . |
5 | Who would emerge as the key personality and how far would Korean communism be controlled by Moscow ? |
6 | Would strong overlap on its own suffice ? |
7 | Would strong overlap on its own be sufficient ? |
8 | What would political morality demand ? |
9 | Would possible street rioting not be a small price to pay to get these sub-normal beings removed from our midst ? |
10 | But even if he did save his electronic jottings , would they be readable by the end of his lifetime , or would magnetic deterioration plus hardware and software obsolescence combine to make the efforts of retaining the file futile ? |
11 | Indeed , we could not be there , since we have neither access to the classrooms where ‘ disorder ’ rules , nor if we had would social life reconstitute itself as it existed before the camera , tape recorders and people accountable as social scientists were upon the scene . |
12 | If such acts did not occur , then neither would social control . |
13 | So who would Wily Imp be if he were a human being ? |
14 | Environment Secretary Michael Howard , presenting the review , said there would public consultation and changes could take place within two years . |
15 | Would gamelan music come to bore him if there were not much else to listen to ? |
16 | Would my right honourable friend , sorry would honourable friend agree that the way you build jobs in an economy is through having successful businesses . |
17 | ‘ Would talking help take away the pain ? ’ |
18 | He shrugged them off as he would soft core porno . |
19 | ‘ Would lying help ? ’ |
20 | A manager 's persistent failure to pay over money to the artist would constitute such a breach , as would constant failure to make him or herself available to the artist , or the wilful neglect of the artist 's career . |
21 | Only by emphasizing the sanctity of domestic life and the ultimately spiritual nature of the marriage union would national morality be re-made in the image of the Maker . |
22 | The other crucial feature of the process is the magnitude of change in national income : if injections increased by £100 million , for example , would national income rise by the same amount ? |
23 | Conversely , those whom he is supposed to desire , and always in specified ways , namely women , he is discouraged from identifying with : that would equal effeminacy ; so in relation to them desire for precludes identification with . |
24 | |L| is more precisely the height at which |Ri| would equal unity if the profiles were unchanged by the stratification . |
25 | As the effects of right sided damage are likely to be less immediately troublesome than comparable damage on the left , which frequently causes some degree of aphasia , naturally occurring left hemisphere lesions may well lead the patient to seek medical advice earlier in the disease process than would equal damage at the right side of the brain . |
26 | The majority held that , whilst an honest but unreasonable mistake would negative liability , such a defence should be put to the jury only where the defendant expressly asserted belief in consent and where there was some evidence beyond his mere assertion . |
27 | Their lives may be saved by either an appropriate mode of delivery or by ending the pregnancy at an appropriate gestational age — the optimal time for delivery ( the earliest date in a given pregnancy at which birth would carry a higher probability of healthy survival than would continued gestation ) . |
28 | Where would good eating be without the colour , variety and flavour of fresh vegetables ? |
29 | Not only would momentary inadvertence not constitute a breach of the duty of care but in addition the test should not be applied with hindsight . |
30 | Not only would momentary inadvertence not constitute a breach of the duty of care but in addition the test should not be applied with hindsight . |