Example sentences of "[verb] would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Shaw , then Group personnel Director , regarded the quality of search work he had experienced as satisfactory , without leaks or indiscretions ; he agreed that headhunters who could not be trusted would soon be finished . |
| 2 | The investigators found no evidence that the Maya returned to the San Antonio locality to farm during Classic times , which , they suggest would probably have been impractical because of increased coastal flooding . |
| 3 | Those who were approached would almost certainly have included Trevor Glover of Penguin ( who as a former president of the Australian Book Publishers Association offered unique experience to the post ) , Paula Hahn of Longman ( who , if she had accepted , would have been the first woman president in the PA 's history ) , Simon Masters of Random House , John Clement of Chambers , Philip Sturrock of Cassell , David Young of HarperCollins , and the current treasurer , Philip Kogan of Kogan Page . |
| 4 | Jarvis thought he had better get on with it himself because anyone Tina found would very likely default on the rent . |
| 5 | What content the law has would then be entirely a contingent and empirical matter dependent upon the values , beliefs , intuitions , ideals , interests and emotions of whosoever has the lawmaking function in hand . |
| 6 | Such a drill could be something like this : The verbs that are being substituted would also have the affixes -mom ( sentence type 1 ) , p- and -an ( sentence type 2 , and p- and -on ( sentence type 3 ) . |
| 7 | Yet , only a small proportion of the parents interviewed would even contemplate termination of a subsequent pregnancy should a test turn out to be positive . |
| 8 | Thank you Chairman erm this is , this is er er obviously er a very important item , but I think that most of the information that it contains would already be familiar to members erm and bearing in mind that I , I 've only a moment or two ago gave a very long answer to Mr 's question when I , I could simply have said yes . |
| 9 | In spite of the collapse of King Alphonso XIII 's monarchy in 1931 , the millions of Spaniards whose sympathies were Republican and the horrors of the Civil War engendered by the inability of a group of soldiers to accept those two realities , General Franco had decided that the " ultimate definition " of the Spanish state over which he presided would thenceforth be " kingdom " . |
| 10 | This was done from affection or duty or in the certain knowledge that those who helped would someday need similar help themselves — as a form of insurance . |
| 11 | Sir Denys would then take the role of chairman , while Mr Hampel would become chief executive — and push through a radical restructuring plan ? |
| 12 | One matter which I should like to have seen included would almost certainly have merited parliamentary discussion before the inevitable dissolution of this Parliament , which will make this a short Session . |
| 13 | Too see these premises re-opened and repaired would indeed improve the appearance of this area of the town . |
| 14 | Even if the buyer were able to do that , the greatest reduction the buyer could achieve would still leave the seller entitled to nominal damages . |
| 15 | It was a picture which Wayne believed would finally stretch him as an actor . |
| 16 | None of these military and diplomatic successes for Charles V was in itself a reason for the renewal of war in 1369 , though they strengthened his hand and were an indispensable preparation for the war which Charles believed would eventually reopen . |
| 17 | However , the final epoch of history , the communist or socialist society which Marx believed would eventually supplant capitalism , will not result from a new force of production . |
| 18 | Seb had an ache inside him caused by Anna that he believed would never leave him . |
| 19 | Its base at Amboyna was overrun in 1623 and some of its garrison tortured to death in an episode Dryden reckoned would still be remembered when he wrote a play about it in a period of anti-Dutch feeling 50 years later . |
| 20 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 21 | The most common purpose for which this might be done would probably be to ask for directions . |
| 22 | Mr Vernon added that the fund raisers highest recompense would perhaps come when they heard the citations read for the gallantry medals to be awarded that afternoon , there being no better proof of the importance to the Institution for which everyone worked so willingly . |
| 23 | While the exclusion does not specifically refer to damage to underground pipes or cables , the above exclusions would be deemed to refer to such circumstances and therefore cover would only operate for damage to underground pipes and services when these exclusions are deleted . |
| 24 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 25 | Leaving aside the farce of the England v South Africa semifinal , where the complete lack of basic common sense applied would probably not have been salvaged by any rules , surely a fairer solution is to use an average of the target under the old and new systems . |
| 26 | . If it was on a P D P Eleven then the addressing would only be a matter of si sixteen bit as well . |
| 27 | This time , with some need to be cautious and not show her hand too soon , she said nothing to Ellen whom she judged would most likely have forgotten she had sworn to come and get Oreste herself . |
| 28 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 29 | Mr Checchi , for his part , said yesterday that he does not intend to seek a new partner to replace the $225m shortfall , but will instead repay KLM out of operating profits -a move analysts said would further endebt the airline . |
| 30 | The Mnchener is suing Atlantic Richfield for nearly $150m , alleging that the company knew that the products the unit was developing would never be commercially viable , and according to the Wall Street Journal citing electronic mail messages , one of which says that as it appears the development ‘ is a pipe dream , let Siemens have the pipe , ’ and another that says ‘ We will attempt to finesse past Siemens the fact that we have had a great deal of trouble in successfully transitioning technology from the laboratory to the factory ’ ; Atlantic Richfield denies attempting to mislead Siemens over the unit . |