Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] would [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps there would be some way of persuading her ; at any rate , Emily would not give up her ideas . |
| 2 | Soon perhaps there would be another announcement . |
| 3 | He said , naturally there would be some changes amongst plant and animal life , but species would adapt to suit the changes in climate and atmosphere and so on . |
| 4 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 5 | If this was not so there would be large forces between various pieces of materials . |
| 6 | So there would be stray references and allusions in the feature articles to events of great consequence or intrinsic interest of which even the bird-brained wives of the garden suburbs of malai-land were cognisant but not 1 , Adolph Ng , BA ( Hons ) Toronto . |
| 7 | The chairman called on the Department to take action about those complaints because if it did not do so there would be little industry left to take action about . |
| 8 | But of course if he worked for Raleigh where they 've got a vast labour force a vast pay as you earn scheme then any income would be taxed by Raleigh as a subsidiary source so there would be another code number there , they would actually be collecting tax at two sources , but they would still need to allocate allowances , it may well be that , at Raleigh for example , they 've covered that by allowances in which case they pull back five hundred pounds there to collect . |
| 9 | So they would be private individuals doing voluntary work . |
| 10 | There may be a particular group of people who will buy a company 's products ( eg it would be good business sense to open a stationer 's shop near a University , where there will be a lot of students ) . |
| 11 | While remaining head of state , he resigned forthwith as head of the MPR , declaring that henceforth he would be above party politics and not subject to political or legislative control , but would act as " arbiter and final judge " on important matters . |
| 12 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 13 | Tonight there would be another raid , sure as hell there would , and everything would be covered with muck and dust again . |
| 14 | It would take place in a different context , nevertheless there would be that opportunity and no doubt the adequacy of a public consultation exercise at the proposed modification stage would be a matter for the County Council themselves to decide . |
| 15 | The rest of the time was devoted to history or geography , but always there would be two afternoons given over to handicrafts , particularly knitting and sewing . |
| 16 | Rail unions said yesterday there would be widespread line closures and the down-grading of some InterCity routes if the Conservative Party wins the general election . |
| 17 | We could not include such a group because of practical difficulties and limited medical manpower ; also there would be inevitable concern that individuals agreeing to be part of such a control group would be self-selecting members of a group with additional risk factors . |
| 18 | Demand was thus satisfied for HE as a whole , although clearly there would be unsatisfied demand for particular courses or institutions . |
| 19 | Clearly there would be little point in reviewing the experience unless it helped you to reach some conclusions . |
| 20 | Overall there would be some increase in the recruitment of girls , but no qualitative improvement . |
| 21 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 22 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
| 23 | She even climbed to the old attic that she had never even seen before ; perhaps here there would be some painting he had done long ago . |
| 24 | Can I just reassure Mr that if actually we were not , er , if we were discussing an increase in members allowances then I would be fair square with him . |
| 25 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 26 | Further , it was hoped that if nothing happened during the trial which newspapers could turn into titillating copy for their readers , then there would be less incentive for the papers to give widespread coverage . |
| 27 | If this were the end of the story then there would be large equator to pole temperature differences in the observed troposphere . |
| 28 | If each of the products had a chance of great profitability then there would be true Broadway risk , but that sort of expectation for a single product is unrealistic . |
| 29 | Then there would be those patients who were Catholic . ’ |
| 30 | And then there would be more trees pl Oh yes , and on either side of this , this pathway , there would also be an avenue of trees . |