Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 First , we would expect over time that , for example , certain words would fall out of use and items related to these would appear relatively more difficult than those which use words still current .
2 If it were , crockery manufacturers would go out of business .
3 She would acknowledge their greeting then the language would " flow from her " and their eyes would light up in response .
4 Jack Clarke knew that sooner or later the brothers would show up in London and , as soon as they did , his network of spies would ferret them out .
5 In the miners ' dispute Lord Wilberforce became deeply enmeshed in job evaluation , the social and physical conditions in the pits and , above all , the need to produce a settlement under which the miners would go back to work .
6 It did n't worry him , because over a distance the soft-nosed rounds would break up on entry and be considerably more destructive , splattering meat in exactly the same way as a hard point carved into an illegal dum-dum .
7 Current policy seems to be to ‘ go soft ’ on the addicts and concentrate on catching the dealers , yet without customers the dealers would go out of business .
8 However , an off-shore company would not be entitled to a repayment of the tax credit attaching to dividends paid by Target ; this would be disadvantageous compared with a direct acquisition of Target by the partnership , where dividends and tax credits would flow through to investors ( and tax-exempt institutional investors could claim a repayment of the tax credit ) .
9 The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth .
10 The triangular holes would match up to teeth on a key , of a similar design to that shown in Pic 2 .
11 On the odd occasion the jollities would get out of hand and the fists would fly .
12 In the first division the top two teams would play off at Twickenham for the county title .
13 Without a Government subsidy , based on the number of sheep , many of these farmers would go out of business .
14 Such a situation can not persist for long since firms would go out of business .
15 But it would also take 700 000 travellers out of their cars and over a million passengers would switch over from air travel .
16 The CBI cautioned that the rise in mortgage rates would feed through into pressure for higher pay , raising the prospect of wage inflation and undermining businesses .
17 It was very much a cottage industry : she and her two sons would drive around with books in the car , being their own distributors .
18 THE United Nations yesterday announced a surprise weapons inspection visit to Iraq , and said experts would fly in at dawn today .
19 The scheme was not greatly used and was complemented by a Voluntary Advice Scheme under which solicitors would give up to half-hour 's advice for a fiat fee of £1 paid by the client irrespective of means .
20 Beep in the ear is so important just a second ago , because if we had this on , busy on the phone , and the next caller comes through , because it was my phone , those calls would go through to Hilary , so I would n't get a beep in the ear would I ?
21 The monthly payments would work out at £4.34 each .
22 Reports that electricity charges would go up by 13% in April set off a furore in the press .
23 Building societies themselves always reckoned that , over time , prices would go up in line with people 's incomes — which govern how much they can spend .
24 There would be simply a walkout and the men would stay out until management either conceded to listen to one of their representatives and resolved the matter then and there .
25 Sapt and his men would go back to Tarlenheim House and return with the Marshal and more men to get into the castle .
26 I figure he thought his men would get out of control if it went on any longer .
27 Siemens has always modelled its mainframe business so closely on that if IBM that it seems inevitable that the growing antipathy towards IBM 's mainframes would rub off on Siemens customers even without the prospect of something approaching depression in Germany : the coincidence of the two strongly implies that once the company finally and painfully gets the ravaged Nixdorf side of the house straight , it will have to repeat the process all over again on the Siemens side .
28 In our last letter you will remember we were concerned about what size of house we would have , how the children would settle in at school , how Jack would feel leaving paid employment .
29 Students would go out from college with great boxes of equipment which had been made very simply and inexpensively , using local , natural materials wherever possible .
30 None of us had predicted that the videos would end up like director David Cronenberg nasties .
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