Example sentences of "[det] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 2 | A few weeks of this would set him up . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 4 | We get a glimpse of it when Curtis argues , in support of his view that America should have Near Eastern mandates , that this would place her advantageously for the regeneration of post-revolutionary Russia ; as ‘ steward of the Near East ’ , she could ‘ extend to the blind giant the neighbourly hand of a friendship which is open to no suspicion ’ . |
| 5 | Thirdly , there is the possibility that abnormalities judged by us to be psychotic in afunctional sense were actually due to organic brain diseases unrecognised at the time ; for reasons discussed previously this would rule them out of court for our purposes . |
| 6 | He refused to co-operate and was told he was ‘ letting the school down ’ and given an indication that this would affect his school report , ‘ and that 's when I realized that I was only acknowledged for my sporting ability . ’ |
| 7 | So this would affect your father then ? |
| 8 | This would lead us to begin with the logical and data transfer operations of 2.3 and 2.4 . |
| 9 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 10 | Discussion of this would lead us into great complexity and it is appropriate to give a largely phenomenological description . |
| 11 | This would bring us to something akin to the fundamental propositions of science . |
| 12 | He himself spent hours in the chapel reserved for cadets , praying to the image of Rogal Dorn , and to the Emperor , attempting to recapture the moment when he had flown through fire , sure that this would stand him in good stead in battle . |
| 13 | This would entitle them to sack Eurotunnel 's management , bring in new equity participation , and pull the plug on the £1bn invested by existing shareholders in the project . |
| 14 | This would slow its progress towards Europe and allow more time for negotiations . |
| 15 | You might think this would slow you up but the reverse is actually true . |
| 16 | This would leave them free to ignore the non-statutory takeover code and Stock Exchange listing rules . |
| 17 | They say this would leave them vulnerable to attack , because the UN would not let them receive arms and ammunition through the corridor . |
| 18 | ‘ This would leave you here all by yourself and I can not allow that . |
| 19 | Although he is one of the most interesting experimental writers on the contemporary American scene , Wurlitzer 's novels are not particularly humorous and this would distinguish his works from those of Sukenick , Federman , and Pynchon . |
| 20 | This would enable him to restore the foot to the proper position of function , and he would keep it like that by strapping it into a right-angle splint , with a kind of plate under the foot attached to splints up the calf . |
| 21 | Bismarck hoped this would enable him to avoid an Austro-Russian quarrel by showing that the implicit assignment of Bulgaria to a Russian sphere of influence still held good . |
| 22 | This would enable them to produce more , without a commensurate increase in effort , and thus earn a higher wage or salary . |
| 23 | If accepted , this would enable them to construct a continuation of Light Railway No. 3 from the Croydon Boundary to the centre of Croydon . |
| 24 | This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis . |
| 25 | This would enable them to recharge their yacht 's batteries equally well when sailing through the doldrums as through a gale in the North Atlantic . |
| 26 | This would enable them to " erect a price wall to deter curiosity " , claims FoE . |
| 27 | This would enable you to program an intarsia pattern for knitting in up to seven colours in a row and which is bigger than 60 stitches and 150 rows . |
| 28 | This would enable us to map out the informal social structure of the ‘ heroin community ’ in a variety of geographical locations . |
| 29 | He suggested that in the meantime we should visit the Arussi mountains ; this would enable us to assess our men and , if necessary , change some before we committed ourselves to the Danakil country . |
| 30 | This would enable us to work Skipper without him sweating up , but would still give him protection on his back and loins . |