Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington . |
| 2 | No the only , I would say personally , I would say the best dredging method is buckets because you can , you can keep a level , you could keep a level with a sucker dredger but not a ground dredger unless like grabbing out the hole . |
| 3 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 4 | We 've got a lot of different opinions there , I mean from my personal experience when I was a customer sales manager my , my students or particularly some of them , well I would say the brightest kind of people in the branch , and they had the most attention , and it 's very easy I think to write them off . |
| 5 | What was more , it was in the highest degree unlikely that any protest of his would have the slightest effect in any matter relating to Hilary Frome . |
| 6 | Everyone knows the war has to end before Azerbaijan achieves genuine prosperity , but no-one supports a compromise which would involve the slightest concession to Armenia . |
| 7 | The move would create seven powerful purchasing consortia which would secure the best deals for patients in the region . |
| 8 | In international relations there would be an era of ‘ growing cooperation ’ between capitalism and socialism , leading towards a synthesis which would combine the best features of both ( Lenin 's formulations on such matters , he suggested , were ‘ not always satisfactory ’ ) . |
| 9 | In the case of the powerpack they have been greatly influenced by the work of Professor Thring and his colleagues , and have proposed a hybrid powerpack which would make the best use of an internal combustion engine and electric motor and would reduce fuel consumption by some 50% and toxic emissions by 80% . |
| 10 | Then she would dress the youngest child . |
| 11 | Nutty privately thought she would have the worst score of the lot . |
| 12 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 13 | The three used to compete with each other to see who could steal the best clothes or who would take the biggest risk . |
| 14 | A woman who would tackle the hardest tasks for those she loved , who met life head-on and never cried craven . |
| 15 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 16 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 17 | We would expect the best response from people who are re-evaluating their lives — a change of work , home or relationship — allowing their beliefs to be re-considered , ’ says Henry . |
| 18 | Then perhaps we would have the lowest crime rate in the world — instead of Saudi Arabia . |
| 19 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
| 20 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 21 | Kuiken says that : " These animals are at the top of the food chain , so they would have the highest concentration of pollutants in their bodies . |
| 22 | By the time they 'd stowed everything in the boot of the Ferrari and driven to a hilltop where , Nicolo said , they would have the best view , the sun was a fiery ball low on the hills . |
| 23 | In the 18th century , examples were always set where they would have the greatest effect on the most travellers . |
| 24 | That is , they would have the worst jobs , occupying the positions of most danger against their old comrades . |
| 25 | Plugger promised to keep the pair for me until the day before I left so that they would have the shortest travelling time possible . |
| 26 | He would tell the rudest stories out loud , when he knew that Joan Sims was within earshot . |
| 27 | She was convinced he would have the latest news on Michael . |
| 28 | The runner would tell him in cases when the dealer clearly did not mind whether or not he would get the best price for his client . |
| 29 | In his reply Dr. Yeats expressed his gratitude and assured Whitbread that he would take the earliest opportunity of using the oil ; a month later however , the doctor sent his servant with an apology — he had not yet had a chance to use it . |
| 30 | Not only were we not interested in how socialism was realized , we did n't believe it would make the slightest difference to the position of women even if it were . |