Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A heavyweight machine to cut the hard rock would sink in the soft sections , and a lightweight machine could n't cut through the hard rock sections . |
| 2 | John Young , a larger-than-life figure , had automatically assumed the Princess would sit in the Royal Box , and had sold tickets in the belief that everyone in the theatre would have a view of the Princess . |
| 3 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 4 | That is , the universe would develop in the same way as its mirror image if , in addition , every particle was swapped with its antiparticle ! |
| 5 | At night the child would sleep in the same room as Rachaela , that was all . |
| 6 | This reform would work in the following way . |
| 7 | Milk distribution would work in the same way in that as long as the milk is put into the system at one point , it does not matter where it is taken out . ’ |
| 8 | For example , the Oracle might say , ‘ I could see in the stars that the Feast would take in the foolish , I told my master to prepare for a great revenge ’ , and then have the Oracle tell the adventurers the story of the Poison Feast from the Drachenfels novel in full , if the players have n't read that book . |
| 9 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 10 | With this , the petrified toddler would disappear in the rushing water and , floundering like an asthmatic salmon , be tossed like a cork all the way down , occasionally smashing its as-yet-unhardened cranium into the wall and ending up bobbing dazed in the pool at the bottom , while other members of the family zoomed in with the Camcorder , dreaming of the £1,000 they 'd win from Jeremy Beadle . |
| 11 | Sealink disagreed with the MMC's findings that reduced choice , higher fares and a poorer quality service would result in the pooled operation before the tunnel 's opening . |
| 12 | In contrast , an object would participate in the universal object goodness or yellowness without having to have parts which participate in some universal parts of that universal object . |
| 13 | The chancellor of the exchequer , Norman Lamont , told sceptical businessmen at the annual Institute of Directors ' conference that the economy would recover in the second half of the year . |
| 14 | Under an agreement signed in Havana on April 17 , 1990 , it was announced that the volume of Cuban-Soviet trade would increase in the next year by 8.7 per cent compared with 1989 , and would be worth up to 9,200 million roubles ( US$15,160 million ) . |
| 15 | copied out the orders listing which battalions the Prince would visit in the coming week , and what manoeuvres each battalion should demonstrate for the Prince 's approval . |
| 16 | On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces . |
| 17 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 18 | " Having seen so many such unions started in the past , they knew that the new union would disappear in the same way as the others " , and good humouredly laughed Wilson 's overtures out of court . |
| 19 | Many constitutional lawyers have thought that the respect in which the problem differs under the constitution of the United Kingdom is that if a power of legislation be denied to Parliament in a particular respect , then an intolerable hiatus would exist in the legislative power — there would be some laws that nobody could enact . |
| 20 | At a press conference on April 25 , Li Peng said that he believed perestroika to be of a socialist orientation , and " earnestly hoped " that stability would prevail in the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | The expanse of wooden floor , cool and clean and shining … the double bed with its hand-appliquéd quilt in a complex pattern of pastels and white … the stand of leafy potted plants , the antique free-standing mirror , whose glass oval would take in the whole length of a woman in evening dress … the modern wardrobe , built-in , that blended so skilfully into the architectural mood of the house while providing all the space for clothing that she could possibly need … two original paintings on the walls , each an impressionistic landscape in subtle , imaginative colour … |
| 22 | The agency , said Heseltine , has become ‘ a pawn in the negotiations of the French ’ , although an alternative way forward had been proposed in which the agency would have a secretariat in Brussels and the leadership of the agency would rotate in the same way that the EC presidency does . |
| 23 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
| 24 | They could only hope , that with an improvement in the general financial situation , the position would improve in the coming year . |
| 25 | Thirty-six hours from the relevant time would expire in the early hours of the morning ; then access to a solicitor would have to be permitted . |
| 26 | It would either stay constant , in which case there would be no well-defined thermodynamic arrow of time , or it would decrease , in which case the thermodynamic arrow of time would point in the opposite direction to the cosmological arrow . |
| 27 | BP 's exploration manager argued that oil production would peak in the early 1980s and that demand would outstrip supply by 1978 . |
| 28 | On discovering a macabre entity such as the hydra , any Inquisitor worth his salt would call in the nearest available force of Terminator Marines — Blood Angels , Space Wolves , or whichever — to root out the malevolent lifeform . |
| 29 | In early May FIS representatives said that the party would participate in the general election subject to certain " guarantees " being given by the government . |
| 30 | Notice that a similar interpretation would arise , and no loss of information would result , if monarch were replaced by a synonym or paraphrase such as sovereign , or crowned head ( and automobile would interact in the same way with the context if it were substituted for car in 16 and 17 ) . |