Example sentences of "would [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guppy could become bankrupt over the affair , and no profit would remain once he had provided the remaining cash to the court . |
| 2 | Islanders correctly realized that such employment as the mine would bring would be short-term , while any damage done would remain after the mining company left . |
| 3 | MacArthur was confident that the creative work of the occupation would remain after Japan regained independence . |
| 4 | Bound for Westminster Palace where she would remain as her daughter 's chaperon , the dowager-duchess , though well accustomed in her youth to court life , viewed the summons without enthusiasm . |
| 5 | There was a further period of tussles for power until the ageing grandson of Bruce and son of Walter and Marjory at last reached the throne in his own right as Robert II , and gave to the royal house the name which would remain as Stewart until Mary , Queen of Scots , altered its spelling to Stuart . |
| 6 | Army officers described the deployment as " very short-term " , but stressed that they would remain as long as they were needed . |
| 7 | Even then , of course , a problem would remain if Local Education Authorities continued to vary from one another in the proportion of all secondary-school places they reserved for grammar schools — from 10 to 45 per cent in this study . |
| 8 | Whether these differences would remain if primary teachers emphasised different aspects of mathematics and different ways of approaching mathematics is unknown . |
| 9 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 10 | It was possible that recovery might be organised , and for that reason he would remain where he was at least until morning . |
| 11 | The body would remain where it was . |
| 12 | There were other problems which would remain because they were to a large extent independent of the problems caused by too restrictive a sexual morality . |
| 13 | Well , some time ago Jack Straw was supposed to have said that under the no new er Acts , or under a Labour government , that C C T would remain because of a transfer of undertakings we did n't er need to change . |
| 14 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 15 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 16 | She had made the mistake of assuming they would think as she did . |
| 17 | I wondered what on earth John would think if he saw all this ; his friends in church , many for the first time in years , strangers saying prayers for him , me weeping over his photograph . |
| 18 | I do not criticise , I merely observe ; and I 'm not sure what I would think if everyone lined the rail to admire the play of light on the water and started discussing Boudin . |
| 19 | She wondered what Colonel Hoggatt would think if he could visit his laboratory now . |
| 20 | But er I often wonder what the nurses today would think if they if that 's all they n they got . |
| 21 | I would think if you looked carefully you would find that most people are . ’ |
| 22 | Not that I do n't like you , Simon , but you would think if the man goes to all this trouble to rescue me he could at least stay around afterwards . ’ |
| 23 | I would think if you were n't , you must have been very nearly . |
| 24 | Mrs Roberts advised her to mend her temper before her daddy came home , and asked what Parr would think if he caught her like a toddler in a tantrum . |
| 25 | I I I just wonder what the opposition would think if you decided that the criteria approach alone was not acceptable and you equally decided you had n't enough information to specify a location , where would that leave you ? |
| 26 | I would think if you were felt the area of the houses on that side , the area of the houses on the Thorny side you would think that one 's |
| 27 | But what do you think my parents would think if I were to become involved with you ? |
| 28 | I would think if she think 's she 's gon na be a bit nervous then I 'll get . |
| 29 | and you would think if you change every bloody thing out |
| 30 | I would think if everything went right , it would be something like seven hours |