Example sentences of "[Wh pn] would [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know three or four investigative journalists who would do a front-page lead on a story like that absolutely no question . ’ |
| 2 | But Mr Patten — who would earn a tax-free salary of £140,000 — would be expected to remain in office until the handover in 1997 , taking him out of mainstream politics for five years . |
| 3 | In a broadcast talk which he gave in the spring of 1941 , " Towards a Christian Britain " , he talked about the sacrifices which would be necessary to bring about such a national conversion , and the need for Christian " prophets " who would alter the social consciousness of the people . |
| 4 | To wreak vengeance on those who would betray the Islamic Revolution . |
| 5 | It provided for an elected head of state who would appoint a Prime Minister from the party winning a majority in elections to a bicameral parliament comprising a National Assembly and Senate . |
| 6 | Fiji became an independent country within the Commonwealth in 1970 , under a Constitution which provided that the head of state was the United Kingdom sovereign , represented by a Governor-General , who would appoint the Prime Minister and Cabinet in accordance with the wishes of the bicameral Fijian Parliament . |
| 7 | She was the kind of acquisitive neurotic who would hoard a medieval cross or a Papuan shrunken head . |
| 8 | You see , there are people in the City who would pay a vast sum of money to be able to boast they had real rabbit at one of their dinners . ’ |
| 9 | Who would pay a small fortune to come and spend a week in a draughty Highland hotel miles away from the slopes , when they could get a package holiday to somewhere snowy , romantic and convenient in the Alps for half the price ? |
| 10 | So the drill should go to the workers , who would pay the depreciated value of the machine to their new partner , their former employer . |
| 11 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |
| 12 | This would suggest that the chairman of the systems planning team would be the ‘ executive responsible ’ , who would carry the required status . |
| 13 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 14 | It was he who would inform the medical officer if the prompt examination of an inmate on admission was necessary , and it was his duty to ‘ take care that all sick and insane inmates and the infants are duly visited by the medical officer ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , but who would want an old man like me who is not even English ! |
| 16 | It was the policy of Henry III , moreover , to dislodge ecclesiastical and lay magnates from the great offices of state , and to replace them by Household officials who would make the central administration a more pliant instrument of his will . |
| 17 | Who would make the better monarch ? |
| 18 | Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day . |
| 19 | ’ … so pro rata , even by our own romantic criteria for singling out just one girl from the hundred we meet , there must be at least fifteen million members of the opposite sex in the world who would make an ideal mate ! … |
| 20 | ‘ It has become clear that people know there is a very real choice between the Tories who would privatise the National Health Service and starve it of funds and Labour who would invest in it and modernise it , ’ she said . |
| 21 | The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century . |
| 22 | The evening promenade , ridiculed as the ‘ monkey walk ’ , when young people gathered together in their finery hoping to ‘ click ’ with a member of the opposite sex was another sure sign of the unchaperoned freedoms of the new street people who would inherit the new century . |
| 23 | My new racket she said , look Gwendoline , who would think a new racket would go like that . |
| 24 | As in the case of the construction of canoes for the Kula ( Munn 1977 ) , technology may be thoroughly embedded in cosmology , and even social theorists who would eschew a technological determinism , but wish to characterize societies through more mediated concepts such as ‘ modes of production ’ , have often had to subordinate the organization of production to a host of other elements of social organization such as kinship and ritual ( e.g. Godelier 1972 ; Hindless and Hirst 1975 , ; Kahn and Llobera eds 1981 ) . |
| 25 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 26 | He looked like a man who would sign a mean death certificate . |
| 27 | Abbess Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , as to who would succeed the childless Ecgfrith need not imply that she had otherwise forgotten about Aldfrith 's existence , but rather that she was testing Cuthbert to ascertain that his loyalties lay in the right place . |
| 28 | Who would employ a sixty-four-year-old man when there were thousands of young men struggling to find work ? |
| 29 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 30 | Three years ago , there was hardly an architect who would criticise the new townscape of Docklands or the Isle of Dogs . |