Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acceptance of our City Challenge bid would enable us to wrought that miracle far more quickly . ’ |
| 2 | If they were subsequently found to have an affected son , the apparent failure of the programme would bring it into unjustified disrepute . |
| 3 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 4 | They did not want it to be too obvious , since observing the search would provide them with great amusement . |
| 5 | The results so far suggest that those informants who described themselves as infrequent and inexperienced readers of SF would not regard this as SF at all ; whereas those informants who did read SF would characterise it as such . |
| 6 | As any Tory would tell you until Black Wednesday , his personality and his popularity won the election . |
| 7 | I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds . |
| 8 | Other editors might make a slip , but let her so much as spell a name wrong and her telephone would blare , and some outraged lady would correct her with withering sarcasm . |
| 9 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 10 | He submits that matters regarding their welfare can only be taken into account on the exercise of discretion under article 13 if they establish the criterion to be found in article 13 ( b ) , i.e. , that there is a grave risk that their return would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation . |
| 11 | Will it be the council , on the ground that the upper band would provide it with more money , or will it be the householder ? |
| 12 | Just as Jesus taught them the truth because he was Truth , so the Spirit of Truth would lead them into all the truth about Jesus ( 14:6,17 , 15:26 , 16:13 ) . |
| 13 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 14 | Conventional shellac records were very brittle ; only a few ounces of shear stress would crack them in half . |
| 15 | When I was a child my father would tease me with two conundrums : ‘ What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object ? ’ and ‘ If you discovered a substance that destroyed every solid , how would you contain it ? ’ |
| 16 | It was better , but not a lot , and McLeish who knew her to be in her late fifties decided any casual observer would put her at nearer seventy . |
| 17 | When Kylie finally won her biggest break as Charlene in Neighbours she remained modest and unaware that the role would take her to international stardom . |
| 18 | I 'VE always said I 'm into snooker and boxing , but not even money would tempt me into managing players from any other sport . |
| 19 | The very idea of Poland was an insult to everything Frederick thought Prussia stood for , and the only hope he held out for the Poles was that partition and Germanisation would turn them into useful members of society . |
| 20 | Conrad , meanwhile , was marching northward in the mistaken belief that desultory Russian mobilization would present him with little opposition from the east . |
| 21 | I 'm sure Ma would help you with that , if you 'd like her to . |
| 22 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 23 | The bottle of bourbon would convince them of that . |
| 24 | By depreciating against the other currencies as needed , the scavenger currency would insulate them from this local depression . |
| 25 | Both missing honours onside would allow you to double finesse your way to success . |
| 26 | This would ensure that the broadcasting institution was ultimately accountable to Parliament but at the same time would free it from direct government control in its day-to-day affairs . |
| 27 | No sin would reach her in this house . |
| 28 | His ambition was to ‘ continue moving forward in a positive way ’ and he ‘ hoped that THE FACE would ask him in ten years ’ time what he was doing ’ |