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

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1 Ruddock , already talking of retirement as he was led , still numb with disbelief , into the night , knew one of them would pay the ultimate price .
2 He claimed that Iran badly needed TOW anti-tank missiles and in return for them would get the American hostages being held in Beirut released .
3 They would feel the disquieting twinges of radiation and take precautions accordingly .
4 Companies had to be exposed to the full rigour of the market — so they would feel the full impact of success and failure .
5 Some are more effective than Rayo so it 's unlikely they would want the British system . ’
6 said that they would want the basic rate increased by more than 2p , 40 per cent .
7 She hoped they would make the same allowances for her .
8 With England discredited , the Protestants were in a much weaker position ; from Mary of Guise 's point of view , there was now no particular reason to suppose that they would upset the old order .
9 However , they do know that winning Group F might give them an easier game in the second round ( against the runners-up in Belgium 's group ) than they would earn by finishing second , when they would face the second-placed side in Argentina 's group .
10 However , they do know that winning Group F might give them an easier game in the second round ( against the runners-up in Belgium 's group ) than they would earn by finishing second , when they would face the second-placed side in Argentina 's group .
11 If at conversion Christians castoff their ability to be angry , they would shed the whole panoply of their emotional world : their joy , their love , their sense of wonder and awe .
12 Without the information contained in the parish register , one might reasonably suppose that Joseph and Ann had three children , who were each to receive only a shilling unless Ann remarried , upon which occasion they would inherit the entire estate .
13 As a result they would accord the lower orders some respect and the arrogance which high status tends to encourage would be tempered with a degree of humility .
14 Fourth , many participants frankly admitted that they had very low expectations at the outset : specifically that the course was simply designed to punish them , in return for which they would give the minimum amount of attention possible .
15 The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best , but they would give the general impression .
16 I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support .
17 and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er
18 But at least they would clarify the current situation and offer the Prince a place in history alongside his great uncle .
19 For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above .
20 Desperation and greed kept them going , so against the odds , they would achieve the prerequisite £4,000 or so worth of business a day , as well as somehow retaining much of their clientele , and in some mysterious way expanding it .
21 ONE MORNING EARLY IN JUNE , BETWEEN DAWN AND SUNRISE , THE headman stood on his roof and shouted out across the village that today they would build the temporary bridge over the main river and that one man from each household was needed .
22 They would restore the dental screening service in schools .
23 As soon as the opportunity presented itself , the likelihood was that they would show the same determination to seize the nobility 's land that they had displayed in 1905 .
24 When the British came we thought that they would lift the Moslem yoke from off our backs .
25 put yourself in the position of either the long-wave or world-system approach to assess how they would view the regulationist approach , its account of structural changes in the UK economy and its changing international position .
26 They were terrified that the Jewish authorities would come for them and that they would suffer the same fate as Jesus .
27 Witnesses were warned that if they gave false evidence they would suffer the same verdict as that given to the accused ( Mark 14:56–7 ; Matt.
28 This is recognised in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 ( 1983 ) in relation to self-assembly furniture where it was said : The goods would , of course , have to be in a condition in which they could be assembled , and if they were sold without adequate instructions it is unlikely that they would meet the required standard of quality .
29 The Maronites believed they would control the new state .
30 By sinking several Genoese vessels and taking others captive , the English made sure that the port remained in English hands , that ( for some while ) they would control the wide estuary of the Seine , and that they might , in the phrase of the day , ‘ sweep ’ the French off its waters by patrolling the sea .
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