Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories . |
| 2 | He predicted the Conservatives would hit back with personal attacks on Labour leaders , by ordering civil servants to waste time trying to ‘ cost ’ the party 's programmes and then , next week at Blackpool , with ‘ the Team ’ . |
| 3 | Rather than cutting takings , profits would go up in well-run trouble-free bars which attracted more customers , she argued . |
| 4 | None of us had foretold that our games would end up on life-support systems in intensive care . |
| 5 | one or more public limited companies — local authority assets would transfer out of local authority ownership to one , two or three public limited companies . |
| 6 | In 1986 , the London Waste Regulation Authority 's annual report stated that London and the commuter belt in the Home Counties would run out of local landfill space well before the end of the century , and counties south and south-west of London would not be able to cope with the burden of the capital 's rubbish . |
| 7 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 8 | After morning parade , those not required for any tests or interviews would go off on working parties around the camp . |