Example sentences of "would [vb infin] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , interest earned in this country by overseas nationals is subject to tax but , if a tax haven state was created in Britain , this liability would disappear and make such deposits more attractive . |
| 2 | The girls would giggle and tell risqué stories . |
| 3 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 4 | Although it is not a matter for me , I would hope and expect that Parliament would be similarly sensitive to the need to refrain from trespassing upon the province of the courts . |
| 5 | Brand-name pharmaceutical companies denied that this would happen and promised greater investments in research in return for longer patent protection . |
| 6 | Such a firm would produce and sell 123,800 units at a price of £3.81 and would then just break even . |
| 7 | I think I would try and get young salespeople |
| 8 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 9 | Four years ago I wrote to ask your readers if they would knit and donate one item for me to sell in aid of Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital . |
| 10 | The cars would pass and re-pass each other in a game of motorway weaving , the sons manoeuvring their powerful Mercedes around each other until the women eventually objected or they themselves tired of the sport . |
| 11 | There had been a snack-dispensing machine in the entrance to the stand , so she would go and buy some chocolate . |
| 12 | Oh I would go and see some friends of mine . |
| 13 | In addition , an important function of the RAC would be its financial responsibility specifically for rural development for which it would receive and disburse hypothecated funds from LEAs and Trusts and from which it would be empowered to make deficiency payments to the relevant providing body where deficits occurred . |
| 14 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 15 | An ‘ outside power ’ , whose objectivity could be equally trusted by all involved parties , would implement and supervise each Pact ’ . |
| 16 | In consequence , the High Court would handle and try public law cases , other specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance . |
| 17 | Meanwhile our lord and master would sit and drink one cup of tea after another , barking orders from time to time . |
| 18 | Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons , often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her . |
| 19 | One suspects that the language of this definition would alarm and antagonize many teachers in the average British school staffroom ; no doubt this is unnecessary , but one welcomes the admirable simplicity of Derek Rowntree : |
| 20 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |
| 21 | The president said that the military government itself would organise and finance two parties under a new ‘ grass roots democratic two-party system ’ . |