Example sentences of "but [pron] would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I would suggest that part of sustaining the conditions for women working today and ensuring both a livelihood and acknowledgement through publication , or preservation in museums and galleries , is a radical rewriting of the existing stories of art . |
| 2 | ‘ But I would like enough money to have a nice home of my own — and to be able to set my mother and my brothers up somewhere else . |
| 3 | If the quality of what 's available leaves a little to be desired , perhaps we could get a professional photographer to supply what is required , but I would need early warning of this . |
| 4 | As my hair is very thick I liked the Philips Hot Sir Brush best , but I would recommend towel-drying hair before using it . ’ |
| 5 | Teacher : I have not come across such blatant attitudes amongst other members of staff but I would get that feeling and if I can , being white , feel an atmosphere like that then the children can too , especially if their skins are black . |
| 6 | I 'll retire , of course , but I 'd like more time to lay my plans . |
| 7 | ‘ I could see some uses for it in interval or hill training , but I 'd appreciate more suggestions for speed work in the booklet . ’ |
| 8 | Is n't it also true that the European union or community or whatever you like to call it , is also intending to introduce a compulsory identity card in the form of a smart card carrying details of the citizen 's health , but which would have ample room to put all sorts of other things on . |
| 9 | Well you were hungry a way down there but you would make good child . |
| 10 | ‘ Not immediately , perhaps , but you would have some time . ’ |
| 11 | So therefore you 'd have no liability but you 'd have unused capital allowances to be carried forward to the next year . |
| 12 | But she would make some man happy some day . |
| 13 | But she would have those things for ever ; she would have them in her head , in her memories and her dreams , and no one could take that away from her . |
| 14 | And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance . |
| 15 | She was too short , they were too sweeping , they 'd envelop her , but she 'd love six pairs of the fully fashioned very sheer nylons just under five shillings each . |
| 16 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
| 17 | A form is provided overleaf but we would welcome longer letters if you prefer . |
| 18 | But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’ |
| 19 | I mean , come on , but I do understand that some of you were briefed or , or Do n't worry about this now , but we would like this briefing questionnaire back before you leave on Wednesday , er , if you were a late replacement , could you just make that plain on there , er , if you were n't briefed , you 've got the shortest questionnaire in the world to fill in . |
| 20 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 21 | I use the term " child " here in contradistinction to " parent " — not all incest involves juveniles — but one would expect any effect to be more marked the younger the child concerned . |
| 22 | But they would involve considerable changes for taxpayers , tax advisers and the Inland Revenue . |
| 23 | We gathered from their questions that before take-off from these fields without radio you should telephone your flight-plan to Lisbon , but they would accept airborne flight-plans without any trouble . |
| 24 | But they would agree that anxiety , tension or depression can make the physical symptoms worse . |
| 25 | White ones they was s'posed ter be but they 'd bin boiled wiv the colours I should fink . |
| 26 | The Institute could attempt to set up such a figure , but he would face considerable difficulties . |
| 27 | He could n't know how tempting the thought of laying down her burden was , but it would mean admitting guilt where there was none — to a man who would as soon see her sink as swim . |
| 28 | Civil libertarians would be up in arms but it would mean fewer animals whose final romp is into a killing-room . |
| 29 | She did n't mind but it would put more pressure on her schedule . |
| 30 | can not be denied , but it would seem that man 's instinctive awareness of his mastery of his own destiny , is influenced by an equally instinctive awareness that he can not peacefully and successfully control that destiny unless he can locate , or himself create some supreme form of guiding influence which is recognised by all . |