Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | California in the 1960s was not only a big and important state , it was also a political forcing ground where developments were occurring in microcosm that would eventually take on national dimensions . |
| 2 | The Finance Ministry announced in May 1989 that women would be eligible to enter the Swiss Border Guard from 1990 as a move towards greater sexual equality , although they would not carry out paramilitary duties . |
| 3 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 4 | They would normally go up four feet there , ai n't they ? |
| 5 | The irony was that many would soon end up owner-occupied thanks to a central part of Thatcherism — the right to buy scheme . |
| 6 | Most of us would probably start off growing pelargoniums in a soilless compost but Hazel reports that they 're actually much easier to grow well in a loam-based compost . |
| 7 | The directive would also lay down minimum requirements for the conduct of takeovers , effectively superseding the City of London 's Takeover Panel . |
| 8 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 9 | The new constitution , which was based on that of the NCCL , emphasised the association 's character as a body which would make representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and would also take up individual cases of discrimination and ill-treatment . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't give up those laughs for anything , ’ he told Time magazine . |
| 11 | The Eddie Aikau would n't take on lesser challengers : it dared the ocean to field its strongest possible team . |
| 12 | He would dream up all kinds of possibilities — like beetles crawling over different shaped surfaces , and someone being shut up in a box in outer space trying to find out whether he was accelerating or being acted upon by gravity — and would then test out these ideas to see if they had anything to say about the real world . |
| 13 | They would happily pay out princely sums for completely new garments made from superior imported cloths . |