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

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1 Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism .
2 Despite French apprehension , West Germany also became a member of N.A.T.O. , in 1954 , on the understanding that both British and U.S.A. forces would remain on the European continent for an unlimited time .
3 US officials stressed that the procedure did not amount to censorship , since the ultimate decision on publication or transmission would remain with the originating reporter 's news organization .
4 And this had implications for their motion : Because God is immutable , the bodies He created would remain in the same condition unless they were subject to external causes .
5 Just as the slightest of doubts about him crossed my mind — perhaps during one of his endless lists of the women 's sexual problems — he would throw in a sensible remark about the funding of the National Health Service , or the small amount of time GPs can offer patients , and recovered his credibility .
6 And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note .
7 If people know that a new rule will be applied retrospectively they will behave in accordance with whatever rules they imagine courts would think in the general interest , and this will provide a great part of the advantage of such rules without the need actually to enact or adjudicate them .
8 But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners .
9 In the last few minutes he would fumble in a inside pocket , and the Queen in her handbag , and they would quickly run through the formal subjects for discussion .
10 Sometimes a tramp would knock on the back door , begging for food or offering to do a job for a few coppers .
11 The introduction of governments that tax goods and incomes in various ways is of course one of the major ‘ imperfections ’ , and economic theory is concerned to show what kinds of tax would interfere least with allocations that would arise in a free market .
12 Ideally , such an ulcer would arise in an idiosyncratic way after the induction of an ulcer diathesis , and would behave similarly to human chronic duodenal ulcer , sometimes proceeding to the typical complications of bleeding , perforation , and stenosis and responding to treatment in a way analogous to man .
13 This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role .
14 As far back as 1949 P. W. Bridgman showed that water would crystallize in a different pattern if frozen at different barometric pressures , a specific pattern being obtained for each barometric pressure .
15 He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ .
16 Occasionally the proprietors of some of the quality houses would comment on the successful inclusion of travel films in the programme as it was thought that this would impress the casual respectable trade but far more common was the exhibitor who reported a hostile response to short films dealing with ‘ industrial ’ subjects .
17 Few would quarrel with the above statement but it is , of course , qualitative and any engineer or scientist needs a much more exact definition of stiffness .
18 If it were true that research effort in the area of the curriculum promoted teaching commitment , few would quarrel with the proposed obligation on the department .
19 It was his hope that whereas an essentially Ukrainian background would rule behind the front door of their home , his son could become assimilated into the society that had adopted his flotsam parents .
20 He had made her whole body feel as though it would explode at the slightest caress from him .
21 I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher .
22 An extreme form of restriction would relate to a specific government grant .
23 It is assumed that because of a basin that is still strongly subsiding , the degree of coalification will not yet have reached the equilibrium which would relate to the present depth and temperature , and that gas generation and accumulation are still taking place here .
24 I think that one of the outstanding erm criticisms that I would make of the whole programme , in research with animals , is the fact that only two licences have been revoked I think you said
25 There are several splendid houses near Long Melford that would make for a gentle afternoon 's potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich of a few centuries ago .
26 Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one .
27 Moreover , constitutional lawyers may write about " old " Parliaments being able to bind and limit a " new " Parliament , and may suggest that a " new judicial attitude " ( whereby judges no longer accept that they are subordinate to Parliament ) would make for a fresh start so that " the doctrine that no Parliament can bind its successors becomes ancient history " , but these tricky legal formulations do not alter the fact that constitution-making occurs in the context of a political reality which limits what is feasible , acceptable , and enforceable .
28 They derive their strength from the realization that not to abide by them would make for an unworkable constitution .
29 I would make for the Federal Republic . ’
30 Many constitutional lawyers have thought that the respect in which the problem differs under the constitution of the United Kingdom is that if a power of legislation be denied to Parliament in a particular respect , then an intolerable hiatus would exist in the legislative power — there would be some laws that nobody could enact .
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