Example sentences of "and [conj] it would [verb] " in BNC.

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1 No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies .
2 Greece opposed recognition on the grounds that no country could claim the name of Macedonia ; that the republic , if independent , would only survive as the instrument of another country ; and that it would threaten northern Greece .
3 The government said that it would consider lifting the state of emergency still in force in Natal , and that it would give immediate consideration to repealing the Internal Security Act .
4 I wished they would go somewhere and fight a duel to the death , and that it would end in a draw .
5 Meanwhile , it was reported on Sept. 26 that the World Bank had authorized the creation of a special facility to grant concessional credit to help lower-middle income countries to re-settle migrant workers fleeing Iraq and Kuwait , and that it would advance disbursements from the Bank 's soft loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) , to the poorest countries .
6 On June 6 the government announced that it wanted to join the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and that it would sign the 1975 Helsinki Final Act .
7 Do you think that the ocean , which swells and struggles , Would be happy to open its mouth day and night , To breathe into the void a vapour of noise , And that it would roar , beneath the hurricane above , If its roaring was not speech ?
8 These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly .
9 That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives .
10 He once claimed to me that he was able to open a beer bottle with his eye and that it would cost me $29 for the privilege of seeing the trick .
11 Even so , our model of heroin ‘ epidemics ’ suggested that the rate of growth of the Wirral ‘ epidemic ’ was slowing up , and that it would peak during the late 1980s .
12 Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million .
13 What they hoped for was a future that Swindon would begin , then get league racing and that it would go on forever .
14 He said that Buthelezi 's approach threatened to bring him into " direct confrontation " with the government in Pretoria.The ANC said that Buthelezi 's purpose was to sabotage national negotiations and that it would boycott any referendum called to test the plan .
15 It was reported on May 23 that Lithuania 's Salcininkai okrug ( district ) had been proclaimed autonomous by its local soviet ( council ) and that it would continue to recognize the constitution of Soviet Lithuania rather than the independence constitution .
16 Following on from the last administration , the Conservative proposals and that it would enable something like four hundred and fifty extra nursery places to be provided .
17 According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships .
18 PRESIDENT Bill Clinton said yesterday that he would be ‘ trying to change a direction of 12 years ’ with the economic agenda he will announce this week , and that it would create half a million jobs in the short term .
19 However , it seems that gravity should provide a limit , but only at the very short length scale of 10 -33 cm or the very high energy of 10 28 length scales shorter than this , one would expect that space-time would cease to behave like a smooth continuum and that it would acquire a foamlike structure because of quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field .
20 My colleagues thought it an impracticable plan and that it would put British manufacturers at a disadvantage — unless such measures could be introduced worldwide .
21 At this point , Alf Jacobson entered the room to inform us that when he rang the Canadian Pacific Railway to check on the 9.15pm train by which Mr Murray and party were to travel to Regina , he was informed that the train was held up at Swift Current because of the blizzard , and that it would seem the CBC party might have to spend the night in Moose Jaw .
22 Even when it was clear that this would n't happen and that it would have to accumulate a special fund , especially for the future cost of ‘ decommissioning ’ the stations , the Board 's accounts showed a relatively small amount being set aside .
23 Mnuchin declined to comment upon the size of the fund but told The Art Newspaper that it would be a substantial eight-figure sum ( more than $10 million ) raised from a small group of investors and that it would have a life of just four years .
24 Their professed need for a load valley in summer to permit overhaul could not be reconciled with the common observation that their capacity problems were not at their worst then ; it could not both be true that the differential charge would have no effect and that it would have so large an effect in cutting consumption the Boards would make losses .
25 They will argue that such job creation as may have taken place is temporary and artificial , that the cost of achieving even this was too high and that it would have been cheaper and industrially more advantageous if people from development areas had been forced or encouraged to move to the prosperous areas .
26 There was hope that it would be a two-way process and that it would have benefits for the school .
27 In addition , it was found that the breach was caused by the negligence of the defendants , and that it would have been relatively easy for the defendants to insure against potential liability to the plaintiffs .
28 He had earlier explained that the PSL-S would be a national , centrist party based on Christian values , rather than exclusively peasant in orientation ; and that it would seek to combine the historical legacy of the peasant movement with the ethos of Solidarity .
29 The proposal foundered on British and American fears that the Soviet Union wanted , for its own purposes , to provoke another civil war in Spain and that it would seek to manipulate any Security Council debate to that end .
30 Critics claim the technology is 1980s passe and not for Unix and that it would take a tremendous amount of engineering to make it suitable for modern enterprise-wide client/server applications that demand object-oriented solutions .
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