Example sentences of "it would require [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Even if everything that might go wrong does go wrong , it would require extra efforts of neglect , incompetence and ill fortune to fashion a depression even half as bad as that of the 1930s .
2 It would require specific restraints on Great Power conduct with respect to the neutralised country or region .
3 The Institute had hoped that the Department of Trade and Industry would replace the existing Companies Act legislation with new provisions based on the Directives , but this route has apparently been dismissed by the DTI in its consultative document on implementation , because it would require primary legislation .
4 The hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) said in Committee that if the Minister is persuaded that it may be possible to establish a funding council at a future date , why does not the Bill allow the Secretary of State to establish one , given that it would require primary legislation .
5 But this women 's suffrage element is only a part of the second item 's subject field and not explicit in the title ; it would require competent and perceptive indexing to bring it out , if it was desired that this should be attempted in the index .
6 In the West , we women usually give over the responsibility of cutting the umbilical cord to the midwife or doctor , and I think it would require considerable courage and will to do this ourselves .
7 Even after the release of the original data , our datasets are likely to retain some value , since it would require considerable effort to reproduce them .
8 GL doubts that the position would be recoverable , or if it was , it would require scientific staff time as well as library staff .
9 It would require direct negotiations between the ASEAN and Indo-Chinese states towards a resolution of the Kampuchean problem and the provision of guarantees against further external ( interpreted as Thai and by extension American ) attempts to unseat the Vietnamese-installed regime in Kampuchea .
10 It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians .
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