Example sentences of "it would [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As Mafouz tacked one way , it would move in the other , and when he swerved round to get it once more in his sights it would sidle left or right until it was sure it was once again in his blind spot .
2 it would result in the unnecessary loss of prime quality agricultural land and
3 Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place .
4 Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings .
5 Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings .
6 A second is the extent to which the Labour Party had anticipated the problems it would face in the international financial market--Lord Balogh wrote extensively on international financial problems .
7 and it would appear in the simple times , before mine , even I had experience at Newark , that men could get a sub in the week because you 're actually in two days you 've actually earnt two days money and you have n't got it .
8 Consequently , a predicative structure combining a noun and an adjective related to it associatively will either seem unacceptable , as in : ( 20 ) the visiting scientists are nuclear or , at best , demand of the adjective a different meaning ( if one is available ) from the associative one that it would have in the attributive position .
9 Under the armpit of Scandinavia , Finland fits like a gusset ; and if this gusset was a piece of rotten calico then it would rip in the ragged shredded way that Finland has done .
10 It would work in the same way as the gas and electricity national grids .
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