Example sentences of "but it would [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUIL : But it would n't make any difference . |
| 2 | Wet through again I wandered about inside the house touching pictures , clocks , trying to feel loss for these things , but it would n't come this time — that sense that had been with me since the reading of Francis 's Will had vanished . |
| 3 | As to GATT , a trade war between America and Europe would be bad for people 's stand of living in the long run but it would n't have much direct effect on Courtaulds . |
| 4 | A scissors-and-paste job on the existing curriculum — which removed masculinist language , substituted female examples and models , deleted stereotypes or debasing images — would provide a superficially ‘ non-sexist ’ transmission process , but it would not make many inroads into the valuation of , or boundaries around , such knowledge areas at present designated ‘ home economics ’ or ‘ applied maths ’ , or , indeed , have any direct effect on the hidden curriculum . |
| 5 | If the explanation was inadequate , the security might not be enforceable but it would not follow that liability in damages would attach ( post , p. 621E–G ) . |
| 6 | If the explanation was inadequate , the security might not be enforceable but it would not follow that liability in damages would attach . |
| 7 | Such a state of affairs would , of course , protect serious public discussion of matters of social importance but it would also debase much of the discussion of public affairs . |
| 8 | I might well never find out where it was , but it would certainly contain some pupils whom the teacher had chosen because she thought they were bright and co-operative and others would almost certainly have been excluded because of their uncooperativeness or lower intelligence . |