Example sentences of "[adj] would [vb infin] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild .
2 Some would go further and argue that the wide-ranging emphasis of records of achievement on recording a great variety of skills and personal qualities , as well as specific attainments , is a reenactment of the old elementary school concern with civic virtue and Godliness as well as basic competence in the ‘ three R's ’ ( Hargreaves , 1986 ) .
3 Indeed , some would go further and criticize the liberal variant of normativism on the ground that that doctrine is based on what might be called ‘ the Rationalist Fallacy ’ in political thinking ; that human beings act on rational motives .
4 Neither we nor the Western world as such would stand by and see the straits of the Persian Gulf closed to international traffic .
5 I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . "
6 Money never conspired between them , between , they just all would come down and give you a hand and that was it .
7 A previously agreed reduction in troops from 43,000 to 36,000 by the end of 1992 would go ahead as planned .
8 The partnership would capitalise Newco sufficiently to meet the redemption obligations on the debentures and , if Newco became the beneficial owner of more than 25% of the ordinary share capital of Target , prima facie s135 TCGA 1992 would apply so as to preclude a disposal on the exchange of Target shares for Newco debentures , though it would be advisable to obtain from the Inland Revenue advance clearance for this sort of structure under s138 .
9 He rejected calls by opposition politicians and the press for him to step down , and insisted that state and local elections scheduled for Dec. 6 would go ahead as planned , without a provision for voting on a reduction of his presidential term .
10 So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will .
11 Without you the first martian would turn round and go away again .
12 Then we 've done our work , I would say that my average of ten company representatives went over , perhaps two would find it was useful , useful fact finding mission , but it did n't achieve much , two would click instantly and have orders while they 're there , and the remainder would over the period of six or nine months later , if they worked at it , gain orders or perhaps , perhaps more importantly agents or distributors to sell their products for them in that country .
13 Most people , I think , would now agree that contempt for science did n't do Britain any good , and most would go further and admit that it is absurd to grow up ignorant of science in a world dominated by its theories and their application .
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