Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That is , previous readers would have grasped the play in Freeman 's terms , in so far as they validly comprehended it , but they would not have been aware of so doing , meantime foolishly talking of it in irrelevant , non-explanatory , " folk " ways .
2 By the middle of the twelfth century , John 's French readers would have had no difficulty in making the necessary identifications : castellans and viscounts , baillis and prévôts , household officers , the clerks , knights , and chamberlains of princely courts abounded .
3 Few of her readers would have read the books and in wartime would be unlikely to obtain them .
4 However , it seems most unlikely that from the media coverage any readers would have disbelieved the accounts of the two teenage girls , especially given the number of men involved .
5 South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 .
6 stated that a National Diploma was likely to be set up and all embalmers would have to re-take the exam .
7 We were watching in case the Tans would try to infiltrate the lakes at night .
8 Such a transformation of allegiances would help to explain the reversal of northern Anglian military fortunes beyond the Forth at this time and could well have been provoked by the changed relationship between the Angles and the Dalriadic Scots .
9 — that in Newham each such client cost £92 a week less in the community , and in Ipswich £108 less ( even with Home Support Project input ) than in an institution , assuming that two-thirds of the clients would have entered a hospital and one-third residential accommodation ( see Table 3.5 ) .
10 After Alan Duff , very few teachers ' books would have stood a chance . ’
11 The authors would like to acknowledge the participation in this study of service users and staff and the assistance of and the help and support of other colleagues in the Centre .
12 The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not .
13 Hamilton resolutely destroyed the patriotic myth that most Scots would kill to wear the navy jersey when he told the press , ‘ I 'd rather stay home and play golf . ’
14 Khrushchev asserted in March 1960 that ’ the Soviet Union is now the world 's strongest military power' ( Izvestiia , 2 March 1960 ) and , although it was recognised that Soviet economic capacity was then inferior to that of the United States , it was confidently predicted that the socialist nations would have outstripped the West within a decade .
15 That none of this is within the competence of animals would seem to influence a preference for them as laboratory subjects .
16 That way true supporters would have got the vouchers and would not have lost out in the draw . ’
17 Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier .
18 Sigeric 's successor , Ælfric , recovered it , but N.P. Brooks has pointed out that other losses would have left no trace in the Canterbury records if they were not regained , and Thietmar of Merseburg says that Archbishop Ælfheah was unable to ransom himself in 1012 because of dire poverty .
19 If they were to escape back through the trench they would have to move quickly ; any moment now the sepoys would have crossed the yard from the hospital and outflanked them .
20 The gangs would want to watch the film , but occasionally also drag an usherette into the exit .
21 Much more speed and her feet would have left the ground .
22 Sensible parents would have chosen a hill station near us , rented a house , and sent us every year to the same school .
23 But these data do not give an accurate account of the overall effect of their change , for an additional 380,000 standard housing benefit recipients would have had an income above their entitlement level .
24 It was ‘ more than likely ’ that the Khmers Rouges would try to disrupt the voting that begins on May 23rd , perhaps by mining the approaches to polling stations , or even by shelling the stations .
25 To stop " false tourism " , visitors from certain countries would have to pay a deposit on entering France and to undergo an AIDS test .
26 Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench .
27 Under the terms of the agreement , representatives from these five countries would help oversee the movement of millions of tonnes of grain and other food aid expected to arrive at South African ports .
28 The trade associations would continue to monitor the situation , and , while they had so far funded the ‘ Do n't Tax Books ’ campaign ‘ from the petty cash ’ , ‘ we may need to launch an appeal fund in due course ’ , Mr Hitchin said .
29 Seat belts would have lessened the injuries considerably .
30 The Prince of Wales was involved in setting up the agreement under which , had the sale gone ahead , Crown Estate commissioners would have leased the land to the Nature Conservancy Council and its successor the Scottish Natural Heritage Agency .
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