Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves , ’ she said ; ‘ you 'd have thought that young man Danny had just won a Grand Prix instead of driving round a dodgem track . ’ |
| 2 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 3 | However , they would like to confirm that other guitarists are being considered to replace him . |
| 4 | The New York office would like to know that little item of information , I 'll bet . ’ |
| 5 | Who now would dare to say that Standard English has any ultimate authority ? |
| 6 | In such cases , the district treasurer would have argued that financial control over the hospital remained with the traditional departmental budgets . |
| 7 | States dumping sewage in areas not designated as sensitive would have to demonstrate that primary treatment was sufficient to safeguard water quality . |
| 8 | If he had been a little more aware , he would have realised that licensed dealers were largely excluded from the square mile , both physically and psychologically . |
| 9 | I would have to say that social conditions have changed a great deal today , going back to what the first |
| 10 | Who would have imagined that everyday life was so strewn with consummate actors ? she thought bitterly . |
| 11 | I think that without going into a lengthy treatise , I would have to argue that middle range theory springing out of empirical data is in general the best approach but you will see all the qualifications and nuances involved in such a view . |
| 12 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 13 | Most liberals , if asked in 1979 what would be the effect of a rise in unemployment to well over 3 million would have predicted that democratic government would be made impossible . |
| 14 | If she had stopped to think , she would have remembered that Brown Owl had told the Pack more than once always to seek the help of a grown-up they knew in any case of emergency . |
| 15 | ‘ You would have used that broken pint glass on me , would n't you ? ’ said Simpson . |
| 16 | WHO would have thought that Eastern Europe could ever become so fashionable ? |
| 17 | Who would have thought that recycled loo-paper , phosphate-free washing powder , ozone friendly aerosols and organic milk would be on offer in our local supermarket , North of Watford ? |
| 18 | Given their reputation in the 1970s , who would have thought that British car workers would match their counterparts in Japan or Germany as they do now , not only for productivity , but for quality as well ? |