Example sentences of "[coord] would [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually he was in camouflage smock and holding an A.K. at the hip , and would probably have knocked half his pelvis off from the recoil if he had fired at that angle . |
| 2 | Dr Ting , who has won one Nobel prize ( for a particle he named after himself ) and would dearly like to win another , has something of a reputation . |
| 3 | We have a respectable reputation for producing future chemistry graduates — including Oxford and Cambridge — and would not wish to lose that good name by adopting a ‘ less appropriate ’ A-level chemistry syllabus . |
| 4 | In those days , clergy were still quite powerful figures in the community and would not hesitate to admonish those breaking either the Sabbath or Good Friday . |
| 5 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 6 | Such timber buildings would have been built using the accumulated experience of the community and would not have seemed such an intricate task to those who regularly witnessed the activity . |
| 7 | This is partly because what might be called laws-of-war issues — to do with legitimacy in the use of force , proportionality , restraint and so on — invariably lurk in the shadows of all discussions about nuclear weaponry , and would inevitably return to haunt those who cavalierly denied the importance of such issues . |
| 8 | One such model , which would not only provide an insightful analysis of the story in its own terms but would also help clarify some of the reconstructions discussed earlier , is the framework of natural narrative proposed by the sociolinguist William Labov . |
| 9 | Gooch , now 38 , continues to hint that the end of his playing career may be round the corner but would dearly like to complete this summer the double of a Test series win over Pakistan and Essex 's sixth championship title , having been around when all the other five were won . |