Example sentences of "[pron] would [prep] a [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 | You get a cheque book , and can arrange direct debits and standing orders as you would through a normal bank . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is on this account that we talk of the baby 's right to life , much as we would of a normal adult . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll spell it out for you , ’ he said as gently as one would to a young child . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Together they would from a longitudinal engine . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House . |
| 21 | This , in most cases , is all the protection the company needs , but it will pay much less for it than it would for a standard policy . |
| 22 | In this approach , a particle does not have just a single history , as it would in a classical theory . |
| 23 | If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user . |
| 24 | The members of the tribunal should not have any other personal interest in the proceedings ( though on an exchange that is of its nature run by practitioners , this requirement may not be treated as strictly as it would in an ordinary law court ) . |
| 25 | Soft materials , like fibreboards and soft furnishings , also do n't respond , and so prevent sound reflecting or bouncing back off them , as it would from a hard surface like a mirror . |
| 26 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |