Example sentences of "they would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , no thermally formed vortices have been observed , and if they were they would theoretically be on a far larger scale than the spacing of the longitudinal dunes ( Mabbutt , 1 977 ) . |
| 2 | Ask the occupants of your next home if they would please do the same thing . |
| 3 | I asked if they would please call me Richard — Dick , I said , made me feel like a symbol of some kind . |
| 4 | They would link the Empire 's far-flung mineral resources with each other and with the centres of population ; they would enormously increase the volume of both domestic and foreign trade ; and their construction would create a massive new demand for coal , iron , steel , and manufactures . |
| 5 | If any reporters were to be poached from other papers , they would mostly need to give three months ' notice . |
| 6 | The remaining 275 hereditary peers state no preference , though they would mostly vote Tory if pushed . |
| 7 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 8 | They would mostly agree with the list of " helpful " features in Table 4.1 , on page 38 , and acknowledge that the confessional approach should not engage in those in the righthand column . |
| 9 | I could have written back to explain that my life was a daily humiliation and an unrelieved imprisonment , but I felt sure that they would neither care nor understand and , again , pride deterred me . |
| 10 | British officials thought about banning imports of plastic waste , until the processors pointed out that they would thus be put at a disadvantage to their competitors . |
| 11 | They would thus have reproduced themselves and multiplied . |
| 12 | The POFs were then to acquire shares in enterprises which were being privatized ; together with the recently created State Ownership Fund ( SOF ) , they would thus form the basis for the mass privatization scheme , which was intended to involve the sale of some 6,200 companies over the next seven years . |
| 13 | they would thus avoid tariffs normally charged on cheaper ‘ dollar ’ bananas . |
| 14 | He charmed his victims , drugged them , assaulted them and felt confident they would either not know what had happened or be too embarrassed to tell . |
| 15 | As he told the pope , they would either not be read or be read with derision after the arrival of the later letter brought by William of Warelwast : |
| 16 | She called for an exposure of the headhunting industry as a whole , accusing consultants of a variety of sins : of perpetuating another form of updated old-boy network , of ignorance about systematic interviewing practice , of poor report writing , of rushing through assignments as quickly as possible and of an inability to handle complex , highly specialist assignments : they would either fail to find anyone or send someone completely unsuitable . |
| 17 | The empty houses would be demolished and empty areas fenced off ; they would either be landscaped , or allowed to return to ‘ nature ’ . |
| 18 | I think , I think a shop , if you look at from the shop 's point of view erm I think it is quite understandable and natural that they would , they would either like a receipt or at least they would like to see some evi |
| 19 | Sixty per cent of 1800 managing directors interviewed did not expect any improvement either in sales or new orders and 80 per cent said that they would either not be recruiting new staff or shedding staff . |
| 20 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 21 | I doubt they would either of them succeed . |
| 22 | If any Government were to bring in these pledges , they would either have to dishonour them and thereby deceive the public , or income tax payers at all levels of income would need to cough up and pay more to fund them . |
| 23 | Without the Higher Force Challenge , a scheme to help wean young offenders off their addictions to crime , they would either be in jail or in hospital — victims of paramilitary punishment squads . |
| 24 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 25 | Jobbers often faced one-way markets in which they would either have to buy a greater number of shares than they had sold ( go ‘ long ’ ) or they had bought ( go ‘ short ’ ) . |
| 26 | It was also noted by several respondents that internal residential courses , useful for fostering team/departmental/individual development , were the area they would particularly like to expand : |
| 27 | They would however presumably agree that since the great majority of manufacturing firms are small businesses and employ only a small number of people , there would still be scope in manufacture for a considerable extension of the industrial co-operative sector . |
| 28 | On their return they would again be entirely dependent on Australian state benefits . |
| 29 | They could sense our nervous impatience , and they were determined to remember everything very clearly , for it could be many years before they would again have the opportunity to witness such exotic behaviour . |
| 30 | If we could have it in writing and we could publicise it I 'm sure they would where to go and how to do it . |