Example sentences of "would [verb] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To listen to some officers in this army one would think that no other war had ever been fought but in Spain ! |
| 2 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |
| 3 | You would think that a macabre form of nepotism had recruited hundreds of Count Dracula 's descendants into the higher reaches of the Civil Service . |
| 4 | Only a maniac , he said , would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone . |
| 5 | If he was given a chance consistently then I would think that an effective patnership would develope and greatly improve Rocky 's playing — something that no second team football can do — not to mention improving his confidence . |
| 6 | Papa would think that an odd way to describe the Almighty dollar . |
| 7 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 8 | Most people would think that an accomplished director of commercials would n't need to sit on the bottom of the ocean taking pictures of some of the World 's most dangerous creatures . |
| 9 | Often the only opening they could offer British producers would arise because a blind-booked film had n't turned up . |
| 10 | We would stress that the broad lines of development which we propose in our description of the 10 levels under this attainment target will require flexible interpretation since we recognise that language development is not linear but recursive , with pupils returning repeatedly to the same aspects of competence and reinforcing their skills on each occasion . |
| 11 | Like the regulationist school , however , this view of long waves would stress that the fifth wave is as yet only embryonic and its form is still to be determined . |
| 12 | The Club is committed to notifying a player should a bid of a certain amount be received , and I would stress that the final decision is always that of the player 's . |
| 13 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 14 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 15 | Miller , by contrast , holds that holist explanations are appropriate whenever a specific condition is met — whenever a social phenomenon would persist if the relevant properties of particular individual members of a society were different . |
| 16 | Soon it would be the time for her evening drink : " Just the one , Gigi , do n't you think ? " she would croon when the old bird , freed from her cage , crawled up to crouch against her cheek . |
| 17 | The position is equivalent to that which would exist if the third defendant were claiming contribution by means of a separate action after being held liable to the plaintiffs . |
| 18 | The material conditions for revolution would evolve and the working class would develop into a revolutionary class ready to seize their opportunity . |
| 19 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 20 | The Keynesian view would emphasize that the original increase in the quantity of money will have a ripple effect spreading through the whole financial market until eventually even the less liquid financial assets such as equities are affected . |
| 21 | The Department of Employment itself took the view in 1988 that evidence was lacking on the extent of age barriers in employment and argued that the problems facing older workers would disappear as the demographic changes became better understood by employers . |
| 22 | However , the pressure group Transport 2000 claimed this week that the need for a bypass would disappear if the old rail link to Guisborough were re-opened . |
| 23 | She would stay until the first intermission , then leave him to watch the last complete performance alone . |
| 24 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 25 | Since the long-run apc is the same for both samples , we would predict that the measured apc of the families with above-average measured incomes would be less than the measured apc of the families with below-average measured incomes . |
| 26 | So again we would predict that the measured apc would be higher in a slump year than in a boom year . |
| 27 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 28 | In this way , many investment projects which enterprises are at present unwilling to undertake could be made attractive : the cost of capital would fall while the prospective returns rise . |
| 29 | The real issue with the voters was de Gaulle himself , and the General reinforced that perception by warning that he would resign if the proposed change was rejected or even if it passed by a slim majority . |
| 30 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |