Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 2 | They waited through that day in the cave , trusting that Miss Fergusson 's condition would improve by the next morning . |
| 3 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 4 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 5 | I asked if his telephone would work at the next big stop which came under the heading of serious to me . |
| 6 | Undaunted , he opened dozens of new stores , and by the end of his life predicted that the company 's revenues would quintuple over the next decade . |
| 7 | And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that . |
| 8 | The Christmas Tree would arrive on the 6th December . |
| 9 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 10 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
| 11 | The chancellor of the exchequer , Norman Lamont , told sceptical businessmen at the annual Institute of Directors ' conference that the economy would recover in the second half of the year . |
| 12 | Under an agreement signed in Havana on April 17 , 1990 , it was announced that the volume of Cuban-Soviet trade would increase in the next year by 8.7 per cent compared with 1989 , and would be worth up to 9,200 million roubles ( US$15,160 million ) . |
| 13 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 14 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 15 | The hole would appear over the next 20 years at Hemerdon , just outside Plymouth — the scene of western Europe 's biggest deposit of tungsten . |
| 16 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |
| 17 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 18 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
| 19 | ‘ The food would stop on the sixth day of January . |
| 20 | Rella would point to the sixth dot and say solemnly : ‘ This is here , ’ and she 'd point at the floor , to make sure I understood . |
| 21 | Over the weekend , when it still seemed possible that Baldwin would resign in the next few days , Sydney Arnold and Lees Smith advised MacDonald not to take office , on the grounds that a Labour Government would be bound to fail and that the party would then be ‘ overwhelmed ’ . |
| 22 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 23 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 24 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 25 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 26 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 27 | Cedric Brown , its chief executive , said the jobs would go over the next 18 months . |
| 28 | There had been intense speculation over whether or not Rawlings would compete in the first free presidential contest since his return to power in a military coup in December 1981 ( having previously chaired the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which had ruled Ghana from June to September 1979 — see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ) . |