Example sentences of "would [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an effort to meet its 1991 inflation target , the government in October 1990 concluded with the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) and the Employers ' Association a pact for the following year : average wage increases would be below 13.4 per cent ; the working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours ; the minimum monthly wage for industrial and farm workers would rise by 15 per cent , as would most pension and social security payments ; labour disputes were to be resolved through negotiation rather than industrial action . |
| 2 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 3 | To cover herself now would be like doing a striptease in reverse , and would only emphasis her uncomfortable consciousness of her bare flesh . |
| 4 | For a brief moment it seemed that the rain still hesitated , that it would only patter dispiritedly on the dust-filled gutters where its drops rolled like quick-silver . |
| 5 | That would only distress her . |
| 6 | Would the lack of charitable registration impair non-taxable status totally , or would only investment income be taxable as in the case of non-profit making social clubs ? |
| 7 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 8 | All the other main opposition parties except the conservative Popular Christian Party ( PPC ) boycotted the elections , arguing that the CCD would be an insubstantial body which would merely rubber-stamp presidential decisions . |
| 9 | Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way . |
| 10 | ‘ At table he would just glower at his food and refuse to talk . |
| 11 | This is particularly true of many 2∗ hotels which under less stringent classifications , would easily rate 3∗ . |
| 12 | For example , would not fidelity be a ‘ moral consideration ’ ? |
| 13 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 14 | But again , there is the other side to Beccaria 's version of the social contract mentioned in Chapter 1 — that we would not will for others what we would not will for ourselves — and Hart 's view that Beccaria 's position was sensitive to individual rights . |
| 15 | But again , there is the other side to Beccaria 's version of the social contract mentioned in Chapter 1 — that we would not will for others what we would not will for ourselves — and Hart 's view that Beccaria 's position was sensitive to individual rights . |
| 16 | These moves would not disgrace a HVS climb were it not for the fact that two sets of in situ threads protect them perfectly : a good testing ground to see if you are up to greater things . |
| 17 | The kusimanse , a dwarf mongoose from West Africa , confronted with a chicken 's egg , will put its fore-legs over it and with a vigour that would not disgrace an American footballer , hurl it backwards through its splayed hind legs . |
| 18 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 19 | She would not disgrace it more than she had already . |
| 20 | I would not stage it at all ! |
| 21 | Would not Opposition Members like to have thought of that idea and put it through in legislation ? |
| 22 | There was n't any subject on which Jackie would not discourse : at length . |
| 23 | We are not sure that Latimer 's and Ridley 's sermons would not jar on modern refinement quite as much … |
| 24 | Rebels ‘ would not hand over general ’ |
| 25 | White House officials insist this is a misunderstanding ; US interest in the coup evaporated rapidly when the rebels made it clear that they would not hand over Noriega . |
| 26 | I would not hand this in to my superior lest I would become a victim of the purges myself . |
| 27 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
| 28 | decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room . |
| 29 | He would generally lunch in one of the clubs to which he belonged ( by the end of his life , he was a member of the Athenaeum , the Garrick , and the Oxford and Cambridge ) although there were occasions when he would take guests to his favourite restaurant , L'Etoile , in Charlotte Street . |
| 30 | Would more Government money in the home stop young girls going out to engage in prostitution ? |