Example sentences of "[verb] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had disabled people been involved in the planning discussions for the project , perhaps even the main issues addressed would have been very different . |
| 2 | To struggle would seem like madness and she already felt less than cool as it was . |
| 3 | Circumstances in which a change of name would be permitted would include marriage or the acquisition of a title . |
| 4 | Besides letting the mix stay hot longer , the job of adding water to a 170o pot until it stopped steaming would take several hours , says Moeri . |
| 5 | It appears that the mother would be eligible for financial assistance in returning with the children to Australia , whereas the father and the lady with whom he now lives would have to fund their own travel arrangements to England and to that extent the father would be disadvantaged . |
| 6 | Quite often Colborne would get an equally honest and unwelcome reply . |
| 7 | Money and the knowledge money can buy would have saved her . |
| 8 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 9 | The forces he would need would depend on " whether or not the Russians intend to back Tito " . |
| 10 | Afterwards she fixed me a potion she promised would tone up my whole system . |
| 11 | The enormous table around which the politburo was supposed to meet would have required the members to shout at each other across oak as old as their collective age . |
| 12 | The interaction of intense laser light with certain gases can produce extreme ultraviolet radiation , but the windows needed to keep the gas contained would absorb it , some ingenious ways were devised to amid windows , but they generally were too cumbersome for practical use . |
| 13 | ‘ And what have your sisters been doing today ? ’ — The ‘ broth ’ would laugh , and while they were laughing would kick and pinch the two youngest under the table , — and while Ellie and Patsy were rubbing their bruises , steal the food off their plates . |
| 14 | He apologised on behalf of the organising committee that not all of the workshops were accessible to people with disabilities and assured the participants that any further conferences organised would ensure that this would not happen again . |
| 15 | It was people who Labour claimed would benefit from its policies . |
| 16 | The revolutionary technology that it was claimed would revitalise the world 's failing eco-systems was already on stand-by . |
| 17 | Efforts by the EC to introduce a tax last year were frustrated by the Bush administration 's opposition to the concept which European industrialists claimed would put them at an unfair disadvantage in world markets . |
| 18 | Bhutto refused the Army 's demands , which some PPP politicians claimed would amount to an undeclared resort to martial law . |
| 19 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 20 | It would also mean , as Charlotte knew , that awareness of what was happening would remain under one roof , that her judgement of what should and should not be done could be neutralized along with Ursula 's . |
| 21 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 22 | While the official figure is 25,000 miles — equivalent to circumnavigating the globe — some journalists have calculated it to be nearer 15,000 , which they suggest would leave Mr Ashdown stranded in East Timor . |
| 23 | Trying not to let excitement show in my voice I said , ‘ Hold on while I check my diary ’ knowing fine that whatever was committed would have to be re-arranged ! |
| 24 | Committed would have to take place without the DUP or Sinn Fein , representing 29pc of the electorate . |
| 25 | Controversy had two major advantages for the Church : considerable free publicity , and such a negative public image that only those who were strongly committed would join . |
| 26 | Do you know would have happened , but you know would have happened , right , erm Bernard do you mind if I smoke ? |
| 27 | None of the mortgage societies they had approached would advance them more than ten . |
| 28 | This book is in general good , but a chapter on foregrounding would have made it so much better . |
| 29 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 30 | ‘ The women he assaulted would think no one would believe their word against that of a respected doctor . |