Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT&T Co 's plans to buy a big stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc still worry Standard & Poor 's Corp despite the company 's news on Tuesday that it would restructure its debt to cut its interest bill ( CI No 2,134 ) : it says it may still cut AT&T 's ratings , because although it will benefit from the move , uncertainties over the planned investment in McCaw will dominate the credit outlook until terms of the transaction and its structure are known . |
| 2 | But he 'd plainly told her on Tuesday that it would take a week or more to get the necessary replacement part , so what was the point in ringing him ? |
| 3 | Tuzla , 50 miles north of the Bosnian capital , declared on Saturday that it would join Sarajevo 's fast for those in eastern Bosnia . |
| 4 | The independence referendum had provoked warnings from Gorbachev that it would lead to a breakup of the Union and hence disaster . |
| 5 | The city council , backed by the government , announced on Friday that it would stop distributing the food aid that has kept Sarajevans alive during a ten-month siege until convoys reached eastern Bosnia . |
| 6 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 7 | However , public opposition from the Roman Catholic Church in particular and objections from Austrian Airlines to transporting the refugees led the government to announce in early December that it would attempt to find jobs for the Romanians rather than deport them . |
| 8 | The ANC said in a statement after a stormy two-day leadership meeting in Johannesburg that it would accept multi-party government for a maximum of five years from the first one-person , one-vote election . |
| 9 | The Leith Chamber of Commerce was instituted in 1840 and in 1852 the Directors petitioned for and obtained a Charter of Incorporation on their representation ‘ That the town of Leith is the principal seaport in the East of Scotland and it would tend much to the encouragement and promotion of the trade and manufacture already extensively established and carried on there , if the Petitioners were incorporated as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers , with the powers and privileges usually conferred on such bodies ’ . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that a tax-raising Scottish assembly would be the worst thing for Scotland because it would discourage the inward investment which will be encouraged into the United Kingdom by the fact that we are not part of the social charter ? |
| 11 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |
| 12 | She suggested that the wedding reception should be held at the Redmond house , telling Julia that it would help her mother to get over the loss of her house if she could organise the wedding . |
| 13 | Despite assurances from GM that it would maintain the British content of Land Rover vehicles at existing levels , considerable unease was felt by many politicians . |
| 14 | The ground outside this principal gate rises along Watling Street and it would seem a most suitable site for a large cemetery . |
| 15 | The move , linked to the United States announcement in October that it would withdraw all tactical nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula , followed fruitless efforts to persuade North Korea as a signatory to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty under the International Atomic Energy Agency and accept international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and to halt its suspected nuclear weapons development programme including the construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant [ see p. 38396 ] . |
| 16 | Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks , thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations [ see p. 39167 for Israeli participation in multilateral regional economic co-operation talks in Paris in late October ] . |
| 17 | Shamir 's speech was also criticized by the Soviet Foreign Ministry and by the US State Department , the latter warning Israel that it would prohibit the use of US aid funds for resettling Soviet Jews in the West Bank . |
| 18 | Well I wonder Lynne if it would look odd because you know the position of the greenhouse just now I mean is it a lean-to , or is it sitting out there in the lawn , where is it ? |
| 19 | ‘ We maintain that we can not afford the rent being asked for by Mr Butters as it would amount to a 60 per cent increase on what we have been paying and we refuse to put the club in that sort of liability . |
| 20 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 21 | The Swedish government announced in mid-January that it would delay a promised phase-out of nuclear power until alternative energy sources became viable . |
| 22 | AFTER soaring above $19 a barrel on Tuesday , oil prices fell back last night to $18.84 in spite of an announcement by Iran that it would cut its production next month . |
| 23 | Much though my hon. Friend may dream about the days of beer and sandwiches , I should have thought that the Opposition were so besotted with Europe that it would have to be cafe and croissants , if that change ever came about . |
| 24 | First , it was easier for a disembodied voice like de Gaulle to " assume " France than it would have been for a more recognizable figure , about whom people had already formed settled views . |
| 25 | This was rejected by the other Commonwealth countries and Britain because it would allow the USA to gain an unbeatable advantage . |
| 26 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
| 27 | Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others . |
| 28 | France made it clear to New Zealand that it would allow more imports of lamb and dairy products into France if New Zealand reduced the charge against the couple to manslaughter and then deported them . |
| 29 | It would upset Major Harper and it would upset Auntie Lou , and all to no purpose because Mr Evans would never let her see him again . |
| 30 | Whilst there has been some confusion as to exactly what ‘ remoteness ’ consists of ( it seems to have been equated to distance from London whereas it would seem to be psychological remoteness in the sense of inaccessibility of decision-makers which really matters ) , the lesson nevertheless seems clear . |