Example sentences of "and in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] would " in BNC.

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1 Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton .
2 He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed .
3 In the past , her pupils would have been shown the way to work this out , given the formula to memorise , and in many cases they would have forgotten it .
4 And in that sense it would be obviously grossly unfair .
5 He says there is part of that site where investigations do indicate the water table is high — only perhaps half a metre below the surface and in that area we would n't regard burial as acceptable because of the potential risk of contaminating the ground water .
6 He says there is part of that site where investigations do indicate the water table is high — only perhaps half a metre below the surface and in that area we would n't regard burial as acceptable because of the potential risk of contaminating the ground water .
7 As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to .
8 He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood .
9 And in a jiffy you would be in the garden , and in another jiffy you would be through the front gate , and in yet another jiffy you would be exploring the marvellous Forest of Sin all by yourself .
10 Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense .
11 And in some organizations they would not be working for us any more
12 As we 'll see another if this was a black book of Freud 's , and in some ways you would say this was one of the blackest .
13 And in this case you would not agree to statement being written , say being read out , you would n't require him to be present , and it could not be introduced under section twenty four because the court would find that it was in the interests of ju justice that it does n't .
14 Answer guide : This raises the question of when the earnings process is complete and in this case it would seem that the process is not going to be completed therefore no entries need to be made .
15 We could stop pretending that some of us have solutions which are vastly and obviously superior to others , when we all know really that our solutions are not good enough , and in this way you would come together in creative activity instead of fragmenting into ever more divisive and destructive activities which are technically called displacement from one another
16 The top of it was shrouded in mist and wind , and in this weather it would be an icy , treacherous climb .
17 ‘ We have n't got the guns to do a quarter of that damage , ’ Dickinson said , ‘ and in this weather it would take a week to bring them up .
18 If it had been possible to study the whole country cheaply and in sufficient detail they would have done so .
19 The last use is the basis of the major work in this field , the treatment by Laver ( 1968 , 1980 ) ; if one adopts this as the meaning of ‘ voice quality ’ it is preferable to use the term ‘ phonation type ’ ( see Catford , 1964 ) for ( ii ) , and in any case I would prefer to use ‘ personal speaker characteristics ’ for ( i ) .
20 I 'm not very interested in that and in any case I would n't be able to look at it , I 'll be getting the dinner
21 Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind .
22 It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid .
23 However there will be circumstances where sites are not suitable for continued employment use , er perhaps because of their impact on neighbouring residential areas , er and in those circumstances we would want to make compensating
24 In my judgment , on the facts as found by the judge , he was entitled to reach the conclusion that consideration existed and in those circumstances I would not disturb that finding .
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