Example sentences of "it would [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen Wilson purchased a Porcupine Puffer from the local shop , being told that it would reach just 6″ . |
| 2 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings , whose competence to declare war could not be impugned : thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI ; they claimed discretion in the matter ; and in 1184 , the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus , through fear that its ranks might melt away . |
| 3 | It would make around £35000 at auction and there is no doubt that this is where the best value can be had . |
| 4 | The Commission argued that this was the best system because it would avoid both tax evasion and double taxation . |
| 5 | It would fetch about £10 . |
| 6 | UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost . |
| 7 | He points out that petrol is now very cheap : if , in real terms , it were to be the equivalent price of a decade ago it would cost over £4 a gallon . |
| 8 | Head of environmental services , Mr Keith Atkinson , told them it would cost around £200,000 . |
| 9 | But if a new kitchen were needed in an older property , it would cost about £10,000 . |
| 10 | He said council officers had told them that the repair bill per flat would cost in the region of £5,000 , whereas it would cost about £40,000 to build new homes . |
| 11 | In a report to members of the county council 's highways and transportation sub-committee , director of environment David Newbegin says it would take about £19m to replace the old buses . |
| 12 | Otherwise if , say , £1 million was deposited in a building society and the building society then deposited the £1 million in a bank , it would count as £2 million — a clear case of double counting . |