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

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1 They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later .
2 They would want more powers for local government , plus a Northern Ireland committee at Westminster , but the possibility of the SDLP or Dublin being diverted from the three-strand approach is remote .
3 I mean , I think , I had n't realized that they would make different decisions on medical grounds .
4 We have to trust the districts can trust the county the county can trust the districts and that in practice they would make this work at local plan level .
5 On free afternoons they would choose quieter parts of the library and make towers , animals , castles , chairs and ski-slopes , all out of books .
6 Finnish Environment Minister , Kaj Barlund , said that sulphur deposits in the south of the country " surpass the level nature can bear by two or three times " and that unless action was taken they would face serious problems in the next 10-20 years .
7 Some would say that the universe is such that a resurrection could not take place , and they would base this assertion on " science " .
8 The town trustees say they would welcome any comments on the scheme .
9 Like with the conditions at Holloway , I knew it would be no picnic , but I just did n't think they would treat human beings like that , anywhere .
10 The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit .
11 A meeting was arranged with the gypsies , who were allowed to stay until the 24th July , and it was agreed they would give substantial donations to the parish for damage caused to the trees and grass on the field .
12 Pissing crap Sportsnight did nt have England highlights , so you thought they would give some coverage to the other ‘ UK ’ sides … nah .
13 They instructed us to tell the promoter that they would give some money towards the gig 's adverts in the local papers .
14 They would give more power to local bureaucracies .
15 So when they are doing a piece of work on the senses they would do this worksheet as part of that either as homework in the school library or in the local library , or as part of a classroom exercise with the teacher and the librarian present …
16 You have to consider its results as they would affect all classes of the community , and the principles that underlie it , and you have to consider whether the people of this country have been consulted with regard to it .
17 When they were wet from rain or swimming in the oceans , the light might catch on some deep oil in them and they would glimmer shadowy rainbows of colour , like oil spills on a road .
18 workshop and they would cover this board with woodcuttings like s what we call spills .
19 They would kick each other under the table , take food off one another 's plates , throw food on the table , shout and scream at each other .
20 But if they paused to reflect , they would discover several differences between R .
21 Industry would have a healthy supply of well-qualified graduates from Scottish universities proud of their good academic record , but whether they would show more allegiance to a independent Scotland is unclear .
22 He wished they would show more appreciation of the skills of visiting teams and more tolerance of mistakes by their own players .
23 But if they were then given a choice of several kinds of seeds they would show sudden switches in preference , even though the seeds were chemically much the same .
24 But each of the five possible routes proposed has drawbacks : apart from the cost ( about £4 million ) , they would bring new problems for other villages , cut through farm land or devastate the watermeadows and wildlife habitats in the Letheringsett and Glaven Valley Conservation Areas .
25 Apparently , 48 per cent of manual workers believed that they would pay higher taxes under Labour , which speaks for itself .
26 But only 39% said they would pay extra taxes in order to facilitate unification ( Irish Times 1/9/87 ) .
27 No doubt , they would pay great attention to what the local authority consider should be done , because they would want evidence as to the best way that the nuisance could be abated , but the decision is the decision of the Justices .
28 All CIS member states signed an agreement on a single defence budget into which they would pay fixed contributions to be determined by the Council of Heads of Government .
29 told a Gallup poll that they believed that they would pay more tax under a Labour Government and 59 per cent .
30 On 4 July 1638 Alured got into serious trouble with the court for saying of the Scots that ‘ they did well ’ in opposing the king and he hoped ‘ they would reform this land by a parliament as well as they have done theirs already ’ .
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