Example sentences of "[adj] that it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 2 | On the same day the Egyptian government made it clear that it would remain within the coalition even if Israel were to retaliate against Iraq , while a somewhat more ambiguous Syrian statement allowed the inference that a limited Israeli response , proportionate to the Iraqi attack , need not have adverse consequences for Syria 's participation in the coalition . |
| 3 | The company also made it clear that it would stretch every resource to meet ministry demands , regardless of its new commercial status . |
| 4 | When I was asked by John Wakeham to join AEA as a part-time member in 1988 , it was clear that it would to help lead a similar re-orientation and I felt I could make a useful contribution . |
| 5 | The opposition Labour Party made clear that it would support concessions on the occupied territories in exchange for peace . |
| 6 | A ban on strike action which was also proposed for the same period , with heavy fines for offenders , had been dropped by the parliamentary labour committee when it became clear that it would receive no support , but fines for unofficial strikes were increased . |
| 7 | Russia has made clear that it would like longer-term credits and money to help finance such programmes as a social safety net for workers who lose their jobs due to the reforms . |
| 8 | The Bank was seeking new commitments of US$25,000 million in 1994 , but the USA , the Bank 's equal largest shareholder with Japan , made it clear that it would oppose a replenishment until the Bank reformed its lending policies . |
| 9 | Russia has already made clear that it would oppose any renegotiation of the convention . |
| 10 | It is tempting to delve further into the subject ; but I am afraid that it would take me far outside my main theme , and so , reluctantly , we must leave matters there . |
| 11 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 12 | If one had a particle with an energy above what is called the Planck energy , ten million million million GeV ( 1 followed by nineteen zeros ) , its mass would be so concentrated that it would cut itself off from the rest of the universe and form a little black hole . |
| 13 | If legislation were introduced at this point it is possible that it would fall foul of the decision by the European Court of Justice and thus be impracticable and a waste of public funds . |
| 14 | But , even then , its temperature would be so low that it would take about a million million million million million million million million million million million years ( 1 with sixty-six zeros after it ) to evaporate completely . |
| 15 | Not unnaturally , as a Conservative supporter , this gave him no pleasure and he was reasonably apprehensive that it would arouse criticism from other persons of the same political persuasion . |
| 16 | Very soon , however , it was realised that the fall of rock was so extensive that it would take weeks to reach John and , naturally , the initial urgency waned . |
| 17 | By now the fog had lifted , but it was so dark that it would have been futile to return to the scene of the mysterious train to discover for themselves any clues as to its reality or otherwise . |
| 18 | However , the expansion of the universe meant that this light should be so greatly red-shifted that it would appear to us now as microwave radiation . |
| 19 | I was deeply disturbed by this and quite convinced that it would lead to serious trouble . |
| 20 | At rush-hour , the traffic was at a slow crawl , to the point where she was convinced that it would have been quicker simply to walk . |
| 21 | For one moment she hesitated , wary of touching him , but conscious that it would appear decidedly petty to ignore his gesture . |
| 22 | Staff at Coopers were told that a name for the new firm had not been decided , but that it was likely that it would start with Coopers . |
| 23 | For this reason the definition requires that rights to participate on a winding up are taken into account only where , at the date the limitation is introduced , it was likely that it would have a commercial effect in practice . |
| 24 | The mine in the gill had been established about 5 years but it is very likely that it would have been an old working re-opened . |
| 25 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 26 | As the volume of water required for lockage of the existing traffic was 1,000,000 cubic feet only , it is obvious that it would have been more effective in the saving of water to reduce leakage rather than to concentrate on reducing the passage of water through locks — and much cheaper . |
| 27 | That would be impossible to accommodate without major adverse effect up what is a historic town , almost entirely er located within a conservation area , and as Mr Curtis said , erm constrained by the greenbelt , the final point is er it is located within the A sixty four corridor and it is inevitable that it would serve the needs of Leeds rather than the needs of York if it were expanded in that way . |
| 28 | The language and rituals of the chapel were , as we have seen , so uncompromisingly masculine that it would have seemed impossible for printing-house life to be the same again once women were admitted to the craft . |
| 29 | Birds kept in small , well-run flocks may indeed be better off , but ‘ free range ’ is not always the ideal that it would appear to be . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that it would make us more careful the months before . |