Example sentences of "[adj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a faded but once , surely , glorious hero like Daddy Ni to whom Elfed would give his best chair in the house : nor Ifor , the new male fixed point in young Rich 's universe . |
| 2 | A one-time regular denizen of city theatres and radio broadcast suites , one might argue that only an ex-Goon would have chosen to live along Dumb Woman 's Lane in a small hamlet near Rye in West Sussex . |
| 3 | The ‘ basket ’ with rodents included in Figure 8.2 would attract suspicion because the form itself is not within the canon of Zapotec work . |
| 4 | The next day the fair proper would begin with stalls around the quayside , strolling musicians , jugglers , side shows , wrestling and boat racing . |
| 5 | Instead , it almost looked as though the English would succeed . |
| 6 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 7 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 8 | This was something which the English would do their utmost to prevent happening . |
| 9 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 10 | But the English would have been worse . ’ |
| 11 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 12 | If the English would execute the son of Sir Alexander Seton , a noted Scots knight , would they hesitate over ordinary townsfolk ? |
| 13 | I am what the English would call ‘ on the shelf ’ : eccentric in their eyes . |
| 14 | I shook my head regretfully — I had n't brought it with me , thinking the English would look down on my caftan with its silver belt — although I saw garments like it selling here at huge prices . |
| 15 | Now what my constituents who are interested would like to know is , what actually does President Mitterrand want ? |
| 16 | Those people who were interested would read them |
| 17 | Dismissing the anti-spirits movement 's idea of imposing a pledge only to moderation in wine and beer , he announced amid cheers that ‘ nothing but the tee-total would do ’ or , according to some accounts , ‘ I 'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever . ’ |
| 18 | First , from a politico-military point of view they can not possibly win , since nobody sensible would allow anything to be changed by force at the end of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | No one really sensible would have got into such a mess in Other world — letting the panic take over and not even trying to think straight . |
| 20 | Besides , the dead German would scare the little cow silly . |
| 21 | Yet to convince you that the claim I have made in my last paragraph is justifiable would require a full-length monograph at least as long as my Political Systems of Highland Burma which is itself a fair-sized and relevant monograph entirely devoted to the affairs of the Kachin . |
| 22 | This would protect the holdings against a future decline of the dollar , but at the cost of pushing the risk on to the United States if it were required to compensate the IMF ( which would take over these dollar holdings ) for any losses . |
| 23 | In the case of Kuwait , invaded by Iraq in August 1990 , this would refer not only to the Iraqis setting alight the oil wells but to the deliberate pumping of six million barrels of oil from refineries into the Persian Gulf waters . |
| 24 | This would decide whether the hard-won economic recovery of the post-IMF phase would be destroyed by rampaging wage demands and raging inflation . |
| 25 | This would lay down specifically when they can and can not play or rehearse . |
| 26 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 27 | This would exist in three editions : |
| 28 | This would exist in two editions : |
| 29 | Phosphates were given in the form of glycerophosphate , which the membranes of cells contain , in the belief that this would facilitate the assimilation of phosphate into the tissues , particularly in the brain . |
| 30 | Activists in Haringey persuaded the council to suspend their commitment to go to full committee status , because a sub-committee could have a majority of non-councillors ; this would facilitate greater participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities , particularly those who were black , disabled or unemployed . |