Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might — as one bottle ( R.R.P. £2.20 ) will treat 250 gallons , a small 6′x8′x3′ pond would cost around £8 to dose . |
| 2 | The equation would involve both time and a many-one relation , the marks of nomic connection of the causal kind . |
| 3 | The slaves themselves needed the pidgin as a lingua franca , not just for communication with their captors , but to communicate among themselves ; a typical cargo would bring together slaves from many language groups , and on arrival in the American ports , they were deliberately split up to reduce the likelihood of conspiracies . |
| 4 | The disposal of a minority stake would raise about £17 million . |
| 5 | If one imagines a machine that can travel from junction to junction almost instantaneously , finding a path to the exit would take only seconds . |
| 6 | To take the grid company back into public ownership would cost about £2 billion . |
| 7 | ‘ They felt their needs had never been dealt with and a group would take away attention from their problem , ’ she says . |
| 8 | If only John Postlethwaite would go away things could return to normal and he might be able to get some money as a special case in view of the emergency and the delicate state of politics . |
| 9 | Accountants Touche Ross estimated that the increase in the price of diesel would add about £1 an acre to arable farming costs . |
| 10 | To become a JANET site in our own right would cost approximately £10,000 initial registration fee , but this would give us complete control over the security and budget of the communication system , for the free exchange of non-commercial information between research institutions , which is not currently possible . |
| 11 | Well after a while the bricks got hot enough that you could just adjust the valve to where the stove would get almost cherry red and it was a very nice fire . |
| 12 | A small , middle-of-the-range electronic organ would cost about £7,000 and churches would be unwise to consider anything less than this . |
| 13 | One delegate opted for Polish Labour Party because he thought the present name would scare away farmers and intellectuals . |
| 14 | With mortgage rates falling in line with base rates , Mr Bootle said headline inflation would drop below 1pc early next year with underlying inflation moving up slightly to around 3pc at the year-end . |
| 15 | The key you have found is a fairly early issue to members and a collector of automobilia would pay about £5 for it . |
| 16 | Such an alliance would bring together Congress , the breakaway Socialist Janata Dal run by Chandra Shekhar , and the Janata Dal of V.P. Singh . |
| 17 | If the plan goes through , the mine would push further west from the workings acquired when Wheal Jane lined up with a second mine , Mount Wellington , a couple of years ago . |
| 18 | For example , people who are not trained in keyboard use would find either speech or script recognition systems much faster and easier to use . |
| 19 | One baleful glance from its enormous eyes could kill , as would its touch , while its breath would kill even birds which flew far overhead . |
| 20 | Our preliminary studies estimated that an upper age limit of 73 years at admission would identify over 97% of those patients with onset before 65 years . |
| 21 | Then a pack of cards , and backgammon , Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly because she was sure the cottage would have only Snakes and Ladders and jigsaws with several pieces missing . |
| 22 | The board would bring together churches , charities and the Citizens ' Advice Bureau to offer local knowledge . |
| 23 | An advisory committee had voiced doubts about L* 's management and cost — likely to be more than $700m , of which the SSC would pay only $250m . |
| 24 | Labour recovered its confidence here and firmly promised that a future Labour government would return both electricity and water to public ownership and control . |
| 25 | Half a century before , it is true , H. G. Wells and Havelock Ellis had proclaimed that socialism would require the extermination of the unfit by the state ; and soon after , Bernard Shaw had urged scientists to devise painless methods of killing , since the new society would tolerate only workers , and the doctrine of the sanctity of human life , like all doctrines of sanctity , was antiquated claptrap . |
| 26 | Heated in the Montgolfier-style , air would lift about 15lbs for every 1,000 cubic feet of volume , while the same volume of hydrogen could lift about 70lbs of payload . |
| 27 | Ten stations around the world would cost about $60 million to build and $20 million per year to run . |
| 28 | Upgrading by one star would cost about £1000 . |
| 29 | Left : to tile a fireplace in a similar fashion would cost about £170 . |
| 30 | Brewery bosses say that every British couple bringing back the new full drink and tobacco allowance would save almost £1,000 in import duty . |