Example sentences of "would a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What would a rational decision to live in Bali be like , if this is not one ? |
| 3 | Would a renewed Labour Party imply a revived trade union movement ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
| 6 | Local villagers had been suspicious from the start , Why would a young woman , devoted to her children , walk out on a five-year-old boy and a mere baby ? |
| 7 | " Where would a young man and woman go — assuming they landed in this city with little money and no contacts . " |
| 8 | He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’ |
| 9 | Why would a political assembly want to abdicate from the full sovereignty which in principle it possesses , and set limits on its own future actions ? |
| 10 | And it 's going back to the point that Mr Curtis I think misunderstood me , that 's basically that if you concentrate new growth in one location you have the ability to plan to serve that development by public transport , whereas if you spread it out to all the points of the compass , you know , two hundred houses in one direction of York , two hundred in the opposite direction would become very mor more difficult to serve than would a concentrated er chunk of development , and that 's as simple as that . |
| 11 | He did n't , of course : and if he did not understand the rationale behind the process-approach , how much less would a primary teacher ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Would a mere slap from an enraged mistress send such a woman fleeing from the shelter of Gloucester Castle ? |
| 15 | Why would a purchased straddle be preferred to a reverse butterfly ? |
| 16 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
| 17 | What effect would a Labour government have on , in the U K , on Pearson 's businesses ? |
| 18 | They watched him intently , like a group of schoolboys would a fearsome master . |
| 19 | I mean , would a melancholic woman order everyone to leave her ? |
| 20 | Would a democratic and successful Germany , bound into a democratic and successful Europe , have reason to do otherwise ? |
| 21 | Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership . |
| 22 | Would a European consensus emerge his summer that is more ‘ liberal ’ as regards this case , we will consider amending the UK position without delay . ’ |
| 23 | How much more would a black hole , occasionally passing through or on the outskirts of the Oort Cloud , affect the comets ? |
| 24 | Would a black and white photocopy of a map |
| 25 | Unfortunately , policy-makers do not have the resources for such an analytical approach to policy decisions ; not only would a comprehensive review of alternative options take up more time and staff than can normally be expected . |
| 26 | Given these omissions and the history of Amnesty 's concern with this issue , how successful would a prior approach to Hiatt 's have been ? |
| 27 | The disadvantage is that a large number of animals feeding in a small area will exhaust the food supply much more rapidly than would a small number . |
| 28 | A middle-class female psychologist , studying working-class women , affects these women differently from the way she would a middle-class female sample , where the investigation would be less powerfully connected with social surveillance and intervention . |
| 29 | What effect would a substantial increase in the sale of government bonds and Treasury bills have on interest rates ? |
| 30 | There is no very compelling reason , however , why foreseeability should not be utilised as the test of remoteness in cases where it is irrelevant to the initial determination of liability : ‘ granted that an escape takes place , albeit unforeseeably , what would a reasonable man regard as the foreseeable consequences of such an escape ? ’ |