Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 2 | If I were the patient I would hope someone would have the common sense not to operate on me . |
| 3 | That reminds me that it was Margaret Thatcher who said , Nobody would remember the Good Samaritan , if all he had was good intentions . |
| 4 | It meant that all one had to do was to go on contacting enough people and one would make the necessary sales . |
| 5 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 6 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 7 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |
| 8 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 9 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 10 | One would expect the older Wordsworth to trot out the arguments of the Established Church at this point : instead he says he does |
| 11 | Similarly , a priori one would expect the same effect in TV , possibly over about 30 seconds . |
| 12 | This may not be covered in the initial simple descriptions of the portfolio grids , but one would expect the underlying risk analysis to include such matters . |
| 13 | One would like the additional information to be conclusive so that the success or failure of the project could be predicted with certainty . |
| 14 | One would like the additional information to be conclusive so that the success or failure of the project could be predicted with certainty . |
| 15 | There are no natural boundaries between property price regions , so let us assume that one would use the standard regions — the south-east , the east midlands , the west midlands and so on . |
| 16 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 17 | It was like communism everyone was supposed to be the same , everyone would have the same house , with the same shed , everyone would have the same stuff in their house , all their doors would be colour co-ordinated and that 's what flats were , the original idea of flats were like co-ordinated living okay . |
| 18 | It was like communism everyone was supposed to be the same , everyone would have the same house , with the same shed , everyone would have the same stuff in their house , all their doors would be colour co-ordinated and that 's what flats were , the original idea of flats were like co-ordinated living okay . |