Example sentences of "[noun] would [vb infin] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question always is whether the defamation is of the class itself ( in which case no action arises ) or whether ordinary readers would believe that it reflected directly on the individual plaintiff . |
| 2 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 3 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 4 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 5 | Sperber and Wilson would say that it conveys a range of weak implicatures recovered on the hearer 's own initiative . |
| 6 | Even scholars who think that Kantorowicz read too much meaning into this picture would agree that it represents the emperor as if he were Christ seated in majesty . |
| 7 | The event would conclude as it began with a handshake . |
| 8 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 9 | We found these casual workers given such names as " bank staff " , and they would be the first people to whom the organisation would turn when it needed to bring in extra workers . |
| 10 | He made clear to Hitler that Britain would not fight to uphold the Versailles treaty and , for far too long , held to the hope that the Third Reich 's territorial ambitions would cease after it had vacuumed up all ethnic Germans . |
| 11 | Instead of straightening out the bends on railways the train would tilt as it entered a curve . |
| 12 | After that , Waits retreats into his usual ho humdrum bummed-out bluesywoozy alkie drone mode mood muzak , the sort of mozzery gushy mush your dog would make if it had vocal chords and could handle its drink . |
| 13 | Netwise thought direct sales would increase if it expanded into new geographical markets . |
| 14 | In an internal memorandum leaked this week , some suggested stressing the strategic and political danger that Palestinian self-government would cause if it led to the creation of an independent Palestinian state . |
| 15 | Figure 6.5 is a model of the lunar interior , many features of which would be accepted by most scientists , though a minority would argue that it has yet to be established that the Moon has a global crust . |
| 16 | The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , yesterday disputed the interpretation put on Mr Hurd 's words last Wednesday but refused to say what the Government would do if it lost . |
| 17 | That value is small compared with the potential value that a search firm would have if it had a market quotation ; there would be a significant number of new millionaires were that to happen . |
| 18 | her voice would carry till it found him out ? |
| 19 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 20 | I mean , I mean , lots of different pupils would say that it does n't mean anything in the end because erm you know , what are we here for , what can we do , you know , and like why you know , I mean I , I 'm sure it does n't mean very much . |
| 21 | The process of arbitrage would ensure that it occurs although in reality market participants would alter rates immediately , so that arbitrage opportunities did not occur . |
| 22 | There was no fundamental weakness in the PWR design and British safety standards would ensure that it operated as well as the best . |
| 23 | It has been identified as the Alauna of the Ravenna list by Rivet and Smith , although Richmond and Crawford earlier assigned this name to Alchester , which in some ways makes better sense , since its neighbours quoted in the list would indicate that it lies on the road from Silchester to the south Midlands ; nevertheless the derivation of the name of the River Alne from Alauna , and hence the name of the town on or near that river , is an attractive argument in favour of Rivet and Smith . |
| 24 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
| 25 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 26 | He told those responsible their hamlet would burn if it happened again . |
| 27 | Alameda has worked with the navy for a long time , and 8,000 jobs would go if it closed ; Everett expects 6,000 sailors and their families to arrive when it is finished , and has built most of the infrastructure . |
| 28 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |