Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] would [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
2 | Under the resolution overwhelmingly passed by Labour delegates , unions would be subject to fines and there would no such immunity from civil action if they acted illegally . |
3 | And what would an ordinary person have been earning at Helliwells ? |
4 | ‘ And what would the usual occupant think of all this ? ’ |
5 | She even imagined she saw Marc in the audience one night , his face just a pale blur beyond the footlights with all the others , but what would the jet-setting Marc Vila be doing in Yorkshire ? |
6 | These were statistical norms , but what would the post-war housing layouts actually look like ? |
7 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
8 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
9 | He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb . |
10 | Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder . |
11 | 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush . |
12 | You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush . |
13 | Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance . |
14 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
15 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
16 | If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ? |
17 | Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country marked its affectionate tribute to Elena as they would a few days later , around 26 January , pour out their loyalty and love to the Comrade on his birthday — for the last time . |
18 | He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government . |
19 | In 1915 Dicey wrote that although federalism possessed a ‘ vague , and therefore the strong and imaginative , charm ’ there is ‘ good reason to fear that the federalisation of the United Kingdom , stimulating as it would the disruptive force of local nationalism , might well arouse a feeling of divided allegiance ’ . |