Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only someone would invent a lubricating oil for bird watchers … |
| 2 | Someone would get a new car , or a new cat : a tree would be lopped : the milkman 's horse bolt . |
| 3 | I just do n't think the two things match , but over and above that it 's totally unnecessary and nobody would put a gipsy site on one of the nicest avenues leading into a town . |
| 4 | Regulations about auditing pension funds hinder profitability , but without them nobody would get a fair pension . |
| 5 | Although many alternative methods of financing and administering adult education could be envisaged , none would be as efficient or as economical , none would evoke a better response than those already in operation , ‘ untidy ’ as these might seem : the Responsible Bodies ( primarily the universities and the WEA ) and the local education authorities were managing to avoid an overlap in provision and should be left to continue their work . |
| 6 | None would accept a young man as the Regent . |
| 7 | Such a pretty yet elegant pressed flower picture as this one would make an ideal gift for a girl 's eighteenth birthday , especially if it matches the decor of her bedroom . |
| 8 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 9 | What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer . |
| 10 | Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) . |
| 11 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
| 12 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
| 13 | one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course . |
| 14 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 15 | From the marked rise in the electrical conductivity of these saturated carbon-bearing samples as temperature and pressure increase , one would expect a high sample conductivity under lower-crustal conditions . |
| 16 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 17 | Using high copy number Long transgenics , one would expect a copy-dependent signal in the DNase I hypersensitivity assay . |
| 18 | In view of the fact that eradication of H pylori infection noticeably lowers postprandial G17 concentrations , one would expect an accompanying decrease in meal stimulated acid secretion . |
| 19 | No one would send a small child to the theatre to watch Macbeth or Othello alone , yet many children watch scenes of violence on the screen in their own home . |
| 20 | The malais were n't fools — they knew no one would buy a uniform screed . |
| 21 | There are far fewer areas in the simulated map about which one would risk a definitive statement than in the map from the unsimulated process . |
| 22 | If tables could talk , I imagine this one would have a few tales to tell for it is here she has enjoyed repasts with such gossipy Sloanes as Carolyn Bartholomew , Kate Menzies and Millie Dunne . |
| 23 | To unblock the well or drill a new one would require a new allocation of foreign aid . |
| 24 | Very well , no-one would expect a leading article in a newspaper — even a newspaper like this one which has , we hope , a reputation for behaving responsibly — to applaud plans to curb the freedom of the press . |
| 25 | No-one would judge an overseas subsidiary purely on its cash flow , because if it was doing well and growing it would n't be sending much money home , whereas if it was in decline and its working capital requirement was decreasing , it would become cash positive . |
| 26 | Everybody would prefer a low rate of VAT but it has is has been accepted that that is a non-starter politically . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't think anyone would have an adverse word to say about him , he was always so polite , considerate and caring to others , ’ Mr Ivory said . |