Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 2 | To start with the lowest common denominator , all sections of the Labour Party could agree that the object was to cement a good working relationship between the government and the trade unions , and thereby also to secure widespread political support , to develop a hegemony which would contrast sharply with both the Heath phase and the bitterness and disillusionment which followed compulsory wage restraint and ‘ In Place of Strife ’ in the late '60s . |
| 3 | The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) . |
| 4 | If our tea and lunch breaks could be structured on the lines of the ancient Egyptians I am sure that by 10.30am each day there would be a smile on the face of each and every member of staff ; and if we could ensure that all our members were treated by their employers in the same way , our membership figures would double instantly . |
| 5 | Sometimes , he said , he wondered if one year the cliff would topple completely , flattening the houses into a formless heap of rubble . |
| 6 | Mrs Henry refused the drug treatment given to reduce the chances of a relapse , but there are many who would remain well without it , Dr Slevin said . |
| 7 | Like most players it was always McGurk 's dream to play in an All Ireland senior final , but there was the danger it would remain simply that , a dream . |
| 8 | As a boy I was always taught to use a sod of turf as a foundation , so that the eggs would remain slightly damp , and to build a snug nest of hay on top of it - and the barn wall was knobbly , draughty and dry as dust . |
| 9 | In his subsequent work , the connection between the two would remain profoundly equivocal . |
| 10 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 11 | Otherwise , English and Scottish bill of lading law would remain hopelessly behind that of other major trading nations . |
| 12 | In fact , she would remain completely indifferent to him . |
| 13 | She was a strong swimmer , a good cook , and she had received Clive 's assurance that their relationship would remain strictly platonic . |
| 14 | Although he had been nominated for the presidency by Civic Forum ( of which he was a founder member ) and PAV , it was understood that he would remain strictly neutral in the election campaign . |
| 15 | Elections to the reconstituted 50-seat National Assembly took place on Oct. 5 , the government having affirmed in a statement on Sept. 6 that it would remain strictly impartial during the electoral process . |
| 16 | Thus we could require as our fourth condition that our justification would remain even when every truth is added to our belief set , all at once . |
| 17 | Excess supply would exert downward pressure on the money wage rate only : the level of real wages would remain largely unaffected by a steady reduction in the level of money wages which a state of persistent excess supply would entail . |
| 18 | But while the present Federal Republic would remain firmly anchored in Nato , East Germany would remain within the Warsaw Pact . |
| 19 | Whereas the revolutionary upheaval of 1917 had seemed to them to foreshadow an entirely novel social order in which power would remain firmly in the hands of the masses themselves , the Bolsheviks proceeded to restore hierarchical and coercive control in every field . |
| 20 | Lord Fraser expressed the government 's confidence in the system , and confirmed that the important task of considering compulsory measures of care would remain firmly with the children 's hearing . |
| 21 | BILL Clinton last night reassured America 's allies and enemies that foreign policy would remain firmly in President Bush 's hands during the transition of White House power . |
| 22 | The government on Aug. 28 published a list of some 160 companies which would remain wholly or partly in state ownership . |
| 23 | Compared to books , distribution of multimedia software titles would remain more fragmented because the market was growing rapidly and potential customers could be reached through many outlets , Mr McCarthy said . |
| 24 | These identifications will not hold good throughout the poem , precisely because the two poets were so intimate , and would remain so : each could and did ‘ internalize , the other , in the sense that within Yeats there was a voice that spoke the sentiments of Pound , and within Pound a voice that spoke like Yeats . |
| 25 | His shoes , his books , his leather trunks and saddlery would similarly be covered in green mould and would remain so now until the end of the rainy season . |
| 26 | ( Anglers are presently major users of the Derwent and would remain so even if the river were reinstated for use by power craft . ) |
| 27 | He still insisted that he alone was responsible to the French people for the actions of his government and would remain so until general elections could be held . |
| 28 | The other ships would remain offshore , and dispatch launches to set men ashore around the coastline of the gulf , to make their presence felt in the countryside , as well as to circle around and prevent the escape of any rebels or corrupt officials . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In July 1991 Israel had lifted the sanctions it had adopted against South Africa in 1987 , but had made it clear that new military contracts would remain formally embargoed . |