Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many units would remain intact when a criminal hurled a house brick at the glass ? |
| 2 | When she returned — and she would surely return soon — she would need reassuring and a lot of tender loving . |
| 3 | It would appear unlikely that a difference of two water molecules could account for the large destabilisation observed and it is therefore probable that minor groove hydration is not the singularly most important destabilising effect the sequence currently under investigation . |
| 4 | ‘ To make you happy , Schätzchen , I would give more than a Brancusi , ’ Thomas said softly . |
| 5 | I would n't hesitate about going along to another of the band 's gigs where , it is to be hoped , the audience would give more than a round of applause for the amount of hard work put into the show . |
| 6 | This , so Dobry believed , would relieve the overloaded planning machine to deal more thoroughly with the major and/or controversial applications ( which he suggested would constitute less than a half and , it was to be hoped , only a third of the total ) . |
| 7 | Today so few theatregoers travel by bus that it would take more than a strike of the red giants to kill anything on stage . |
| 8 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 9 | ‘ It would take more than a ring to get me into your bed , ’ she retorted furiously . |
| 10 | Add the life and colour of cities such as New York , Washington , San Francisco and Vancouver , and this is a land it would take more than a lifetime to truly discover . |
| 11 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |