Example sentences of "[coord] would [adv] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we would like to see dog owners registered — a move we feel would cut out a lot of bad apples and would also make much rescue work unnecessary . ’ |
| 2 | This would act as an incentive for conservation and would also enable poor countries to realize some of the value of the resources . |
| 3 | This would reduce carbon emissions and would also provide alternative uses for farm surpluses . |
| 4 | These would be distributed to suitable respondents to the initial advertisement and would generally contain brief details of the business including financial information but still not reveal the name of the vendor or company for sale . |
| 5 | Liberal politicians led by Gladstone remained convinced that state action posed a danger to individual freedom , and would rarely assist economic growth or social or moral improvement . |
| 6 | Your parents hate it and would gladly lynch this band rather than let them dabble with your adolescent hormones that ca n't help wanting to shag them senseless in a vat of cold custard . |
| 7 | The fretting gives the neck a feel which resembles that of an acoustic guitar and would probably take some players a bit of time to get used to . |
| 8 | Mr Reeves thinks little of such an idea and would rather see conventional pools built . |
| 9 | Well , he was in the ark and would presumably survive any deluge . |
| 10 | First , Franco still held out hope of a late Axis victory , believing — astonishingly — that Hitler possessed and would soon deploy secret weapons and " cosmic rays " . |
| 11 | According to the proposed US schedule the Johnston incinerator — the only such facility currently in existence — would undergo 16 months of testing before beginning to destroy chemical weapons already stored on the atoll ( those which had been removed from Okinawa in 1971 ) , and would then incinerate those weapons currently based in West Germany . |
| 12 | Brought to the home of a knight , this girl and boy wept a great deal , spoke in strange syllables and would only eat green beans which , according to Celtic superstition , are the food of the dead . |
| 13 | The cribs were not the usual constructions of shoe boxes and straw , with small religious figures and matching sets of the Magi ; they were a challenge for the ingenuity and imagination of each section and would often involve large amounts of gravel , stones , concrete and other building materials . |
| 14 | Equally , the office had to be filled by a gentleman who would be acceptable to the majority of the county , and would preferably gain general acceptance , for anything less than that once again raised the spectre of potential hostility at the following parliamentary election . |
| 15 | The centralized bureaucratic apparatus of the state became subordinated to the interests of the dominant economic groups that were already creating a commercial agriculture and would subsequently promote industrial development : ‘ for the first time a state had been created whose policies and activities were shaped in response to the needs and movement of civil society ’ ( Gamble 1981 : 67 ) . |
| 16 | If the new sector colleges were able to apply for the use of those premises it could jeopardise the adult ethos and character of the provision and would subsequently deny many adults their first step back into education . |
| 17 | 95 and would still have 4,300 pounds of fuel remaining . |
| 18 | The nineteenth century headteacher who knew he was right that God loved everyone , and would therefore thrash any boy who did not acknowledge that , had in fact paid almost no attention whatever to the content of his belief . |
| 19 | The assumption was that women would be working because of their husband 's fecklessness and would therefore need legal protection for their earnings . |
| 20 | It needs to be emphasized , however , that such a conclusion would be in despite of the earliest biographical sources , the author of one of which was contemporary in time , if distant in space , and also , as far as one can judge , of the chronological lists and would therefore constitute important evidence of the limitations of these source materials . |
| 21 | He told them that Iraq had 60 divisions ready for war , compared with his enemies ' 18 , and would therefore win any battle for Kuwait , which was part of Iraq 's ‘ body and soul ’ . |
| 22 | It was a cold and damp winter , but he recovered slowly and indeed seemed cheerful ; he sat beside the open coal fire in the drawingroom and would sometimes sing music-hall ditties as his wife ministered to him — " coddling " , he used to call it . |
| 23 | A number said that they would find self-motivation and discipline difficult and would never see these forms of learning as substitutes for practical , participative training . |
| 24 | This idea is almost certainly impractical , and would merely bunch hostile bids in the run-up to the scheme 's implementation and to each five-yearly meeting . |
| 25 | Not only would this permit the benefits of specialisation and economies of scale ( ie lower average cost ) to be felt , but would also avoid expensive duplication . |
| 26 | The mines would be confined to a narrow line of dunes which separate Lake St Lucia from the sea , but would still cause irreparable damage to the wetland as a whole , ecologists believe . |