Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh det] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 2 | They could turn out that for what it 'd cost us to tile them ! |
| 3 | How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ? |
| 4 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 5 | Yesterday , when I called at the house before the funeral I was afraid of what I would find . |
| 6 | The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour . |
| 7 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 8 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 9 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 10 | All it covers is the basic treatment in line with the minimum requirement in the country where you are staying — and that can be very different from what you would expect from the NHS . |
| 11 | ‘ The meals are very different from what you would get at home , but once they are brought to the boil they give off a most delicious smell . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What you should want to pursue him for might be different from what I would pursue him for . ’ |
| 13 | With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen . |
| 14 | As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’ |
| 15 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 16 | The South Korean government announced an amnesty on Feb. 26 under which it would release 22 " leftists " , most of whom had been convicted of spying for North Korea , and 1,089 other prisoners . |
| 17 | But the biblical material may simply not be amenable to what they would say . |
| 18 | Not too sure about what she 'd want . |
| 19 | She decided to remain where she was until she could be sure of what she would find outside the closed front door . |
| 20 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 21 | Gary Speed and Rod Wallace are both very good at what I would term ‘ reflex volleys ’ where the ball comes to them quickly or from an awkward angle , but perhaps not so good when they have time to think about it . |
| 22 | Knowing general family traits provided a good starting point and from assorted references I began to get an idea of the species I could hope to find myself and those for which I 'd need help . |
| 23 | It showed that our formal control and planning mechanisms fell far short of what we would like . |
| 24 | The preserved GMP can sometimes fall short of what you would have had from SERPS , and in these cases the state makes up the difference . |
| 25 | He moved cautiously now , unused to the preludes , unsure of what she would expect . |
| 26 | The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed . |
| 27 | This phenomenon is entirely due to what I would call ‘ battery stamina ’ . |
| 28 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 29 | This outlay represents around a fifth of what it would cost to dispose of the waste locally . |
| 30 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |