Example sentences of "[adv] would [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 1 ) … a person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so would tend to expose that person , or his or her spouse , to proceedings for a related offence … ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in the first-mentioned proceedings ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in those proceedings . |
| 2 | ‘ ( 1 ) In any proceedings to which this subsection applies a person shall not be excused , by reason that to do so would tend to expose that person , or his or her spouse , to proceedings for a related offence for the recovery of a related penalty — ( a ) from answering any question put to that person in the first-mentioned proceedings ; or ( b ) from complying with any order made in those proceedings . |
| 3 | To do so would have entailed considerable embarrassment . |
| 4 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 5 | I personally would have prefered two millimetres , the full width of tread and full circumference . |
| 6 | I personally would have preferred that decision to already have been taken . |
| 7 | The point I would like to put over is , I 've listened to one or two erm , radio programmes , and television programmes about this and I personally would like to have more evidence of what actually happens to the animals . |
| 8 | The preparation of the foundations and the timbers alone would have required considerable time and although C12 is the largest building excavated at the site , the effort required to build many of the others would not have been much less . |
| 9 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 10 | Erm and I just would like to offer this service to you . |
| 11 | but you probably would 've missed other things . |
| 12 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 13 | The lack of opportunity for people to travel and study abroad would have hastened that decline . |
| 14 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 15 | On Arthur Young 's calculation higher wages did not restore living standards to the levels of the 1780s , for weekly earnings then would have bought fourteen loaves in Winchester , whereas in 1815 they could buy only nine . |
| 16 | Mr. Beck was a formidably powerful personality and doubtless would have passed any examination set for him in his profession — indeed , he did so . |
| 17 | And a physicist looking even more closely would try to picture these molecules of tennis player as clouds of electrons whirling round nuclei . |
| 18 | To have attempted otherwise would have involved methodological problems given the nature of the responses that were received . |
| 19 | It seems likely that in every case , perhaps after much agonizing , they succumbed to the decision to ban News International publications : to do otherwise would have risked contractual misconduct , strong moral and political pressure from both colleagues and employers , and ultimately , probably , dismissal . |
| 20 | It was flat , and having been open for only fifteen years , was not criss-crossed with sewers , gas and water pipes which otherwise would have required costly re-location . |
| 21 | Who else would have done those things for the NME — hanging out in Dingle Bay with Mike Scott and an accordion-bashing cow farmer , taking in the transvestite clubs with Fabulous , and singing ‘ Would You Take It In Your Mouth , Mrs Murphy ? ’ atop a hotel table in Moscow . |
| 22 | The keyword was fusion ; nothing else would have created such expectations . |
| 23 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 24 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |