Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 2 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 3 | This does not suggest that schools would need to amass great quantities of pupils ' work for an audit . |
| 4 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the 120,000-strong Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the general election result meant that hundreds of schools would seek to leave local authority control ‘ within the next few weeks ’ . |
| 5 | Pupils at the new schools would have to expect longer working days and longer terms than at maintained schools . |
| 6 | I ca n't afford to replace them , so I was wondering if any of your readers would like to donate any Guitarist s they may have and no longer read . |
| 7 | If it was merely a technical matter , personal computers would have meant increased autonomy for office workers just as Apple 's founders predicted . |
| 8 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 9 | Despite the small scale of production the craftsmen would have needed considerable knowledge and skill to accumulate the equipment and materials to produce these brooches . |
| 10 | In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor . |
| 11 | There being 3,813 papers showing a second preference for Craig in our North Antrim constituency , the formula would have given him ( 5,626 + 14,533 ) x 3,813 = 1,476 additional votes , and other candidates would have received additional votes similarly calculated . |
| 12 | The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight . |
| 13 | By the mid-sixties , you see , a large proportion of homes would have got fitted carpeting throughout , so there 's that kind of difference . |
| 14 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 15 | Kids would have made more mess . |
| 16 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 17 | This would mean in effect that the privately owned operating companies would have to shoulder all research and development , waste disposal and decommissioning costs . |
| 18 | So expectations have been high , and companies would have felt some concern about the possible consequences of crossing the panel . |
| 19 | But under contracting regulations , companies would have to match current pay and conditions and may be deterred from taking on Westminster employees . |
| 20 | Under the agreement , both countries would continue to have free trading arrangements as before . |
| 21 | Had such an option been granted to the Danes , other countries would have demanded similar privileges , and the dream of creating a unitary European state would have become unattainable . |
| 22 | Contractors would have to employ more people . |
| 23 | The climate extremes suggested by the physical models would have rendered southern Africa inhospitable for both animal and plant life , yet fossils of the most diverse and prolific terrestrial vertebrates , the mammal-like reptiles dicynodonts , are found in South Africa , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Malawi and Tanzania . |
| 24 | They say belts would have prevented any injuries in wales … |
| 25 | However , a few of the errors would have produced new macromolecules that were even better at reproducing themselves . |
| 26 | Conservatives would like to preserve traditional family roles so that women are discouraged from market-based work . |
| 27 | But thanks to their 28 victories in the constituencies the Conservatives would have had nine seats ( 28 minus 19 ) too many , whilst from the pool of ten additional seats it would have been impossible to furnish both the nine additional seats due to Labour ( 11 minus two won in constituencies ) and the ten additional seats owing to the Liberals . |
| 28 | The executive share option scheme is now nearing the end of its ten-year life and following successful introduction of the savings related share option scheme in the UK , the Directors would like to make similar arrangements available to employees in other countries . |
| 29 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 30 | And here troops would arrive to quell local disturbances and uprisings , while local organizers of the Anti-Corn Law League and early unions went off to national gatherings . |