Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York .
2 This could not exactly be a straight substitution : to attempt that would involve something like a category mistake .
3 Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital .
4 Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself .
5 Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom .
6 By virtue of Core Rule 36 , many transactions which would fall full square within Core Rule 28 are exempted because the Chinese Wall serves to negative the firm , or certain individuals within the firm , of the requisite knowledge that would bring it within the prohibition contained in Core Rule 28 .
7 It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point .
8 What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ?
9 In the next chapter I will try to increase the order in our neck of the woods a little further by explaining how people are trying to fit together the partial theories I have described to form a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe .
10 It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face .
11 I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question .
12 As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all .
13 Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith .
14 I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption .
15 This autumn the House of Lords will be asked to give people a legal right to choose between life and death in advance of any injury or illness that would leave them in a ‘ permanent vegetative state ’ .
16 So in small Japanese firms average tenure may be higher but only one in six men have the 20 years or more of tenure that would place them on the higher parts of their wage profile .
17 The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies .
18 Their common concern was the chaos that would unleash itself on the city if a radioactive cloud from Hinkley Point was carried by the prevailing wind .
19 Something that would establish him as a Writer : script-writer , poet , lyricist for a rock band , novelist , playwright … it did n't matter .
20 The national brewers , whose attitude to staff and tenants would bring a blush to the face of the average Victorian mill owner , object to new legislation that would deprive them of the right to evict tenants and their families at a moment 's notice .
21 And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ?
22 None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above .
23 He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions .
24 What she needed was a weapon of some sort , something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise .
25 Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night .
26 Elsewhere there are some uneven and four-square passages which prevent one 's subscribing to a view of this work that would equate it with the successors Benoliel names .
27 Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up .
28 We were down to Halflight , sliding through the tangle of the Lagoon Nebula interlink , making our way towards the secondary GalacNet lines that would get us to the sector containing the Ixyphal system .
29 Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ?
30 This thick tash must be accompanied by a large cigar and the refusal to go to any club that would have you as a member • Nabisco takes over disco as this year 's club theme .
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