Example sentences of "that it [modal v] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so that it would stop cars getting across into the car park , but it would nevertheless give the impression . |
| 2 | Someone pointed out that it would stop passers-by popping in to buy something . |
| 3 | GEC , Ferranti 's main British rival in radar , is also keen to mount a takeover bid but would encounter fierce Ministry of Defence opposition on the grounds that it would damage competition in electronics procurement . |
| 4 | The Taiwan stock market fell 3.3 per cent following the decision , which was not officially announced , while the Foreign Ministry criticized the bank 's intervention , saying that it would damage Taiwan 's year-old financial liberalization programme . |
| 5 | ‘ It must have occurred to you before you dropped your bombshell that it would distract Simon , ’ Vitor said , starting to pace up and down the confined space like an enraged tiger trapped in a too small cage . |
| 6 | Moreover , on July 28 Turkey announced that it would refuse permission for the use of Turkish bases to launch allied attacks against Iraq . |
| 7 | Moreover , Bismarck sold the idea of the Empire to the other states by saying that it would contain Prussia . |
| 8 | Struggling for a frame of reference , I calculate that it would contain Empire State Buildings . |
| 9 | What she did mind — minded quite horribly — was that it would upset Auntie Lou . |
| 10 | I had no idea what having a baby would mean , only that it would make escape from Roundhay impossible . |
| 11 | That it would make life a lot happier for Manningham if he closed the deal at the price offered . |
| 12 | It was just that it would make life a little easier . |
| 13 | If the public had been sickened by the carnage at the Olympic Stadium , the next spectacle to fill their television screens would be in such spectacular technicolor and DestructaVision that it would make Rambo look like a Disney movie . |
| 14 | It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track . |
| 15 | It would need to be flying with 70 per cent capacity to break even ; for every percent above that it would make $250,000 . |
| 16 | I mean , I do n't think anyone took any risks , and we were all wearing gloves anyway because of the state he was in — I would be worried that it would make people panic unnecessarily . |
| 17 | The Ramblers Association opposes privatisation on the grounds that it would threaten people 's " freedom to roam " . |
| 18 | The Mexican federal government announced on July 15 , 1989 , that it would commit $13,750,000 to " regenerate " Mexico 's rainforest over the following 10 years . |
| 19 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |
| 20 | The visit , formally approved by the Japanese Cabinet on Aug. 25 , was fiercely opposed by right-wing nationalists who feared that it would involve pressure upon the Emperor to apologise to the Chinese people for Japan 's brutal military intervention in the country between 1931 and 1945 . |
| 21 | Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts . |
| 22 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 23 | THE United Nations relief agency UNHCR said yesterday that it would send aid convoys to challenge a Serb blockade of thousands of starving Muslims trapped in eastern Bosnia . |
| 24 | The new party 's leader , journalist Mazhar Arif , said that it would ensure Iraq 's compliance with the 1972 Stockholm Declaration on environment and with " all principles for protecting the environment on both Arab and international levels " . |
| 25 | The government diffused pressure to include RE in the National Curriculum by arguing that it would form part of the statutory ‘ basic curriculum ’ provided for by section 2(1) of the Act . |
| 26 | Outside the airport issue , the UK said that it would intensify consultation and co-operation over Hong Kong issues in the approach to 1997 . |
| 27 | In a statement issued on July 2 Bush said that it would remain US policy neither to confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons , but that " where we 've said we do n't have those weapons on board , we mean it " . |
| 28 | This system will be used in deciding on future allocations of the pool and the DES has already indicated that it would expect NAB to give advice about appropriate courses and rationalization , particularly concerning those which are expensive , those which are so specialist in nature that control of student numbers is required , and those where both university and public sector provision might be unnecessary or where rationalization is desirable for other reasons . |
| 29 | The National Organization of Women announced on July 5 that it would contest Thomas 's confirmation . |
| 30 | But what Mary wished to have , in keeping with what the other ladies wore , was a ring of such quality that it would draw looks of admiration … such as a dazzling diamond ring . |