Example sentences of "[coord] would [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The publishing director of Burkes peerage says disinheriting his first born would be an unprecedented move and would involve introducing a new bill in the House of Lords … but he thinks the Duke may try . |
2 | She was always impressed by his fame and would have liked a theatrical career . |
3 | The resulting bill , which was approved by 211 votes to 189 in the House and by 50 votes to 44 in the Senate , would have increased the top rate of income tax from 31 to 36 per cent and would have placed a 10 per cent surtax on millionaires to finance tax relief — particularly in the form of a permanent tax credit of $300 per child — for lower- and middle-income tax payers . |
4 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
5 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
6 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
7 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |
8 | Slivers of black burnt onion , petrified bacon rinds , lacy brown scraps of fried eggs and scores of other morsels from tomatoes , sausages , steaks , chops , liver , potatoes , bread and baked beans here lay cheek by jowl , and would have afforded a rich reward to anyone interested in Mr Piggott 's diet over the past year . |
9 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
10 | Effects like these are far from isolated and would seem to indicate a deeper and more worrying problem with the actual System itself . |
11 | ‘ I have played in every game this season and would like to complete a 100 per cent record . |
12 | We have quite a few in stock and would like to clear a few at least ! |
13 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |
14 | If you want to avoid channelling out a wall , but would like to replace a single outlet with a double outlet , which can be a switched one , and will sit over the old position . |
15 | I enjoyed Frank Close 's review of cold fusion but would like to mention a simple explanation of Fleischmann and Pons 's results which does not seem to have been discussed ( ‘ Cold fusion : the discovery that never was ’ , 19 January ) . |