Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 2 | Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield . |
| 3 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 4 | With its aim of achieving ‘ a greater unity between its Members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress ’ , the new body became Western Europe 's first postwar political organisation , one which immediately and daringly claimed that it would work for ‘ an economic and political union ’ . |
| 5 | At the start of his first visit — to Thailand on Sept. 26-30 — the Emperor told King Bhumibol Adulyadej that Japan had " resolved that it would live as a nation of peace , so that it should never repeat the horrors of that most unfortunate war " , and that Japan had made " unremitting efforts " to build " new friendships " in the region . |
| 6 | This thing looked like it would capsize if it collided with a rubber duck in a bath . |
| 7 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 8 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 9 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 10 | I did n't look at my watch , but I found out later it had stopped so it would have been wrong anyway . |
| 11 | I should , of course , have guessed that it would do the opposite . |
| 12 | That is the use of the scarce resource on one project may mean that another project can not be undertaken although it would have generated a positive contribution to fixed costs and profits . |
| 13 | Maybe one of the reasons Microsoft Corp 's NT is n't pegged to go on Sparc is because it 's little endian and Sparc is big endian : we 've heard that it would mean a major rewrite , something Bill Gates had n't figured on . |
| 14 | These criticisms are , in many respects , justified although it would seem a bit far-fetched for historians to believe that the Labour Party , even in alliance with the Communist Party , could have forced a National government with an overwhelming parliamentary majority , to have capitulated to external pressure . |
| 15 | Mrs Grandison chose ham and salad , thinking sadly of the splendid sirloin , for she had decided that it would have been that if she had been given the choice . |
| 16 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 17 | Having decided that it would take at least a month for Praia do Carvoeiro to be slotted into Vitor 's hectic schedule again , Ashley was surprised when the black BMW drew up outside her house a couple of weeks later . |
| 18 | The Act does not define what actually constitutes an artistic work , though it is generally accepted that it would cover any product made by an artist or craftsperson , which is normally unique , hand-made and makes a personal expressive statement . |
| 19 | However , the Swedish food and medical group Procordia , which is selling a 28% stake in Liber , has said that it would make a SK350m profit on the sale . |
| 20 | The Tory party has not said that it would ensure that rural areas do not suffer disproportionately as a result . |
| 21 | Furthermore , it is said that it would upset the constitutional balance between the courts and the executive if the Crown could be held in contempt of court for disobeying a prerogative order of prohibition or mandamus . |
| 22 | A leading member of the Medellín drug cartel , Fabio Ochoa , wanted by the United States authorities for drug trafficking offences and the murder of an agent of the American Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , surrendered on Dec. 19 in what was seen as a vindication of the policy of President César Gaviria Trujillo , who had adopted legal and political methods rather than the previous military offensive against the drug cartels [ see p. 37772 for October proposals ] ; on Dec. 17 the government had said that it would waive extradition to the USA and reduce prison terms for those traffickers who surrendered and confessed to crimes . |
| 23 | Such an alliance was unacceptable to a number of DYP deputies and to the SHP ; the RP had said that it would co-operate only if an Islamic leader was first agreed on to replace Özal . |
| 24 | The Labour party has said that it would sign the directive on part-time working and many others , which would place an intolerable cost burden on British industry . |
| 25 | France has said that it would support the side that restarted the war . |
| 26 | The Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt had likewise said that it would participate in the elections , although Jumblatt on July 17 expressed reservations about the new electoral law , reiterating that he did not think that conditions were yet right for the holding of elections . |
| 27 | It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track . |
| 28 | But the economic trends which helped created the baby boom have subsequently ensured that it would have no successors , by drawing married women permanently into the work-force . |
| 29 | Several people were presented and it would have been nice to have been closer . |
| 30 | The logical re-use of existing services has led to the retention of the overly utilitarian postwar outshot when it would have been better to demolish it and to restore the four-square appearance of the pre-war building . |