Example sentences of "[pron] would [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
2 | Esher ( 1981 ) has suggested that Britain has experienced three ‘ Rebuilds ’ : the Enlightenment , the Industrial Revolution and the Welfare State : ‘ fashioned by wartime social democrats in England , which would for the first time in history build cities that were not dramatizations of privilege and poverty ’ ( p. 278 ) . |
3 | The ability to quantify androgyny on the BSRI seemed to some 1970s North American feminists to suggest and even to facilitate an escape from oppressive aspects of dominant discourses of femininity and masculinity , like guilt and dependency , and violence and insensitivity , which would at the same time retain femininity 's positive social , emotional characteristics , and the valuable self-confidence and achievement motivation commonly associated with masculinity . |
4 | Even if — and it is a big " if " — an unobjectionable means could be devised by which choice among candidates on party lists could be indicated and also convincingly assessed for the award of seats , the possibility of that choice could not be provided by any practicable modification of the WGMS which would at the same time ensure a high degree of proportionality and be acceptable to British electors and parties . |
5 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
6 | Such ideas had their major influence in South Wales where nearly all men were engaged in mining and could envisage a pure " class struggle " between themselves and the coalowners which would at the same time be a political struggle between the great majority and the rich minority . |
7 | You get a cheque book , and can arrange direct debits and standing orders as you would through a normal bank . |
8 | Speaking as you would to an ordinary child , of a similar level of linguistic ability , may be the most natural response and in most cases this is likely to be a safe strategy . |
9 | Read the slope of the bank in just the same way as you would with a long putt , and the results can often be very accurate . |
10 | The one thing it 's difficult to do is erase , but if you draw in your subject very lightly first and take as much thought and care as you would with a full painting , then erasing takes care of itself . |
11 | So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate . |
12 | So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group . |
13 | And you would only you you Yes you 'd meet more of the affordable requirement no doubt , than you would at the lower figures , but in my view , you 'd still be left with some fairly substantial problems in particular areas . |
14 | Unless you have to hold down one key ( ie Shift , Ctrl or Alt ) while you tap another , the general rule is to tap the keys lightly , as you would on an electronic typewriter . |
15 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
16 | It is on this account that we talk of the baby 's right to life , much as we would of a normal adult . |
17 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
18 | ‘ I 'll spell it out for you , ’ he said as gently as one would to a young child . |
19 | In other words , different legal arenas are not entirely severed from each other , and political movements such as the peace movement will have to bear in mind the impact of its legal activities on legal arenas other than those with which it is immediately engaged : for example , does the encouragement of judicial activism by the peace movement , or an invitation to adjudication based on natural law , open floodgates which — although they produce desirable results in the short term — one would in the long term prefer to remain shut ? |
20 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
21 | Into the less cerebral atmosphere of a detective novel it is likely , too , that you will find opportunities for scenes of action , and that they will seem less like seized-on injections of pep-up dope than they would amid the logical probings of the puzzle story . |
22 | Yes , I think you would find that everywhere people will crowd into especially post-impressionism , which is Van Gogh , etc. , more than they would into an avant-garde exhibition . |
23 | This means that students then have the chance to present themselves as they would at a working audition , and this is often quite a good place to attract attention . |
24 | We like the green landscape , the simple food , the reserved people , and our children do n't wilt in the heat as they would on the Amalfi coast . |
25 | Together they would from a longitudinal engine . |
26 | Likewise , in certain regular grammatical re-formulations the parts of an idiom may behave as they would in a transparent expression : thus we have a leg-pull , formed on the same pattern as hand-shake . |
27 | Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine . |
28 | However , he will always know that his performance on a simulator is being assessed and , except for the business of risks , he may well take more care than he would in a real plant . |
29 | You do n't need special equipment to hear the effect , so it should provide the same sensaround sound on your crappy hi fi as it would on an expensive job . |
30 | You do n't need special equipment to hear the effect , so it should provide the same sensaround sound on your crappy hi fi as it would on an expensive job . |