Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 2 | But then , knowing you , you 'd have stuck to the proper dosage . |
| 3 | To save even the meanest man or woman alive I 'd get rid of the whole Sistine Chapel ! |
| 4 | A burglar would be able to avoid the trip beam of an intruder alarm system , and a factory or office would appear illuminated by the infra-red light used by security cameras . |
| 5 | Support Alan on Saturday and contact him with details those items you would like auctioned at the next opportunity in December . |
| 6 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |
| 7 | If not , the persons ‘ knowingly concerned ’ would have to pay and , on payment , would become subrogated to the primary claim against the contravener . |
| 8 | One disadvantage of the change might be that the more precise moral distinctions currently incorporated within the law would become submerged within the sentencing discretion , where the signposts are less clear and the arguments less structured . |
| 9 | ‘ We Americans are spoilt , ’ he said , ‘ I doubt whether we would have played in the cold and soaking conditions we had here today . ’ |
| 10 | The door opened unexpectedly , and he would have fallen into the dark kitchen were it not for the fact that after four inches it jarred and stuck . |
| 11 | ‘ Men who , under any other pair of hands , would have remained on the injured list for three or four weeks , Tom would have fit again in three or four days … |
| 12 | Many of the tenants buying would have remained in the same houses , so there would not have been ‘ voids ’ for allocation in any case . |
| 13 | As to Wayne Proctor , there were those who would have gone for the former Welsh hurdler , Nigel Walker , though , heaven knows , Proctor , the fastest player in the side , was himself no mean athlete in his schooldays . |
| 14 | They divided local government services in such a way that most of the major services including education , major planning , personal social services and housing would have gone to the regional authorities while the districts would have been left with minor aspects of these services and certain amenity services . |
| 15 | Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area . |
| 16 | His hero is a stick who would have contributed to The New Statesman . |
| 17 | On the other hand , Clara would have fitted into the Jaguar-driving clique . |
| 18 | Conventional economic analysis would have pointed to the opposite policy , but would have ignored the human factor in making a complete system work . |
| 19 | I had the feeling of a patron drawn deeper than he would have liked into the unpredictable consequences of his generosity — a lonely figure , heir to the Agnew fortune and tradition , yet unmarried , childless , last of his line . |
| 20 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 21 | Bull , whose next goal for Wolves wil be his 200th in the League , would have equalised in the 65th minute but for a bad bounce on the edge of the six-yard area . |
| 22 | In an era which had great batsmen like Bradman , Hammond , Ponsford , Duleep and McCabe , Stewie would have ranked with the best . ’ |
| 23 | You then add together all the contributions from all the different paths and — hey presto ! — the result is the same probability amplitude which you would have calculated by the more pedestrian procedure of solving the Schrödinger equation . |
| 24 | Its flat northern half would have connected with the Carnatic plain of southern India . |
| 25 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 26 | If , before the innocent purchaser bought the goods , the original owner had avoided his contract with the rogue , ownership in the goods would have reverted to the original owner . |
| 27 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 28 | Retired STG employees and those retiring before privatisation or before the end of any transitional period will have their pensions provision fully secured so that they will receive the same pensions as they would have received from the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 29 | using almost three thousand hours of work on a major computer , the result is a stunning walk through the abbey as it would have appeared in the eleventh century . |
| 30 | The famous scene of the Men in Armour , leading to the final ordeals of fire and water , are drawn from even higher Masonic rituals , while the closing chorus actually contains the three words ‘ Weisheit , Schönheit , Stärke ’ ( wisdom , beauty , strength ) which would have appeared in the end-of-meeting rituals used by Mozart 's own lodge . |