Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] a different [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Non-autistic mentally-retarded children would appear to have a different kind of problem . ) |
| 2 | Those critics of the police who argue that they took a partisan position can at least point to legal authority that would have justified a different approach . |
| 3 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 4 | Maybe then we would have prepared a different course of action . ’ |
| 5 | Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement . |
| 6 | ‘ Many young women would have made a different choice , ’ he answered . |
| 7 | Had a piece of Lotharian history survived for these years , it would have told a different story . |
| 8 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 9 | And no doubt other authors would have chosen a different balance of topics — more invertebrates and light vertebrates perhaps . |
| 10 | Were perception conceived of differently , it is quite likely that the decision tree would have had a different structure and led to different conclusions . |
| 11 | That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around . |
| 12 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 13 | And everything would have taken a different turn . |
| 14 | McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings . |
| 16 | ‘ It was quite appalling and , had we known it was going to happen , I 'm certain we would have found a different way of dealing with our problem . ’ |
| 17 | At sea level we would have got a different picture as the man-eating breakers punched against the rocky coast . |
| 18 | The degree of damage by chipping and splitting of the teeth is already greater , of its kind , than has been observed in the predator assemblages ( see Chapter 3 ) , and since it is combined with absence of breakage of the skulls and mandibles it would seem to present a different pattern of modification from the pellet assemblages . |