Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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1 | This was certainly true of England last Wednesday , their back line in such stark disarray , so frequently outsmarted and embarrassingly wrongfooted by intelligently applied Polish speed and trickery that but for Shilton 's alertness and determined auxiliary support from midfield they would have been overwhelmed . |
2 | In the normal course of conversation I would n't talk about politics , I 'd talk more about shagging . |
3 | In the normal course of events they would not have publicised their conclusion without further tests . |
4 | In the normal course of events he would have died years ago . |
5 | ‘ So I thought if he were that kind of driver I would not get involved . |
6 | ‘ Normally when you have that kind of money it would be burning a hole in your pocket . |
7 | ‘ Normally when you have that kind of money it would be burning a hole in your pocket . |
8 | ‘ If I had that kind of money I would try to go out and buy the best players available — I would pay the price needed as Kenny has done . |
9 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |
10 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
11 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
12 | The second feature which offers the possibility of overcoming the problem of how to incorporate the rich and exciting range of activities we would like , is the move to planning the curriculum as a progression of learning from 5–16 ( hopefully eventually 3–21 ) . |
13 | We believe that if we could liberate this wealth of talent we would transform our economy and create a shared society of which we should all be proud . |
14 | At this moment in time I would agree with you entirely . |
15 | I said well I 'm not very good on computers and I 've got loads of coursework so I thought if I go down there and type out different pieces of work it would get me familiarized with them |
16 | To help pull this cart at times they would enlist the help of a mule owned by old Dick Gooding at Holly Kill . |
17 | not this sort of thing you would n't as I say |
18 | Firstly , to brief top management on the possibilities of AI ; although not likely to come into direct contact with AI they would be first to see the likely improvements in effectiveness and efficiency . |
19 | If the ‘ Children of the Food ’ did n't receive their daily dose of Herakleophorbia they would have screaming fits and eventually die . |
20 | Say she was sure who the father was ; and working in a racing stable with thoroughbreds she would know that proving paternity was increasingly an exact science . |
21 | At this time of year he would normally move his hives north to the Derbyshire peak district , to take advantage of the flowering heather . |
22 | Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language . |
23 | Ironically , Rockefeller was exactly that type of capitalist he would have despised back in England . |
24 | In the normal run of things I would have had no business there , no access . |
25 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
26 | Any notice direction or communication given hereunder by one party to the other if sent by post to the last known place of business of the other party shall be deemed to have been served on the date when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the other party . |
27 | In the ordinary course of events he would have said Len Forbister was n't the kind of man to associate with him . |
28 | A central part of methods it would seem is tacit knowledge , developed and shared by those who work together but resting unformulated and thus unavailable to those without personal contact . |
29 | Had they obeyed the accepted rules of warfare they would have stayed somewhere ‘ further down ’ . |
30 | To see whether it is the high alcohol concentration or the possible lack of stimulants or their inability to act in the presence of high alcohol concentrations that is responsible for the absence of stimulatory action of whisky it would be interesting to study the effect of a simultaneous intragastric infusion of beer and whisky . |