Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Fraser expressed the government 's confidence in the system , and confirmed that the important task of considering compulsory measures of care would remain firmly with the children 's hearing . |
| 2 | Whereas the revolutionary upheaval of 1917 had seemed to them to foreshadow an entirely novel social order in which power would remain firmly in the hands of the masses themselves , the Bolsheviks proceeded to restore hierarchical and coercive control in every field . |
| 3 | The Thyssen museum opened in Madrid on 9th of last month to fairly general self-congratulation in the Spanish newspapers , qualified by the hope that the paintings would remain there at the end of the nine and a half years loan/rental period ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct 1992 , pp.1 , 6 ) . |
| 4 | Unlike his father , he would remain there for the rest of his life , without resentment , becoming in the end a partner in a somewhat unenterprising firm . |
| 5 | Is not it a fact that the Labour party would throw out of the window all the grant-maintained schools and return them to the control of its friends in the town halls ? |
| 6 | When he had finished his meal , when he had collected his guard from the hard chair by the entrance , then he would stride back to the Haifa Street Housing Project , and he would chew on the pistachio nuts that were loose in his trouser pocket , and he would write to his mother . |
| 7 | Then , early on 14 August , stalls selling souvenirs , all kinds of religious objects , sweets , primitive toys , salamis and cheese would spring up in the approaches to the Santuario . |
| 8 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 9 | After throwing the plates on the table , she would rush out into the garden in an attempt to cool down . |
| 10 | The water , he concludes , would rush out into the Atlantic ; the coasts of England and France would totter , shift and reunite ; the Channel would cease to exist . |
| 11 | ‘ You know Daddy , ’ she would laugh defensively with the girls . |
| 12 | This would compare directly with the breakdown of a traditional bill of quantities . |
| 13 | This is why I would quarrel mildly with the book 's title The Art of Sketching . |
| 14 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 15 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 16 | I was holding it lightly against the glass of the door at an angle where the steel-jacketed slugs would plough straight into the fat of his abdomen . |
| 17 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 18 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 19 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 20 | I listened with great care to discover how his brilliant mind would explain how in a society so apparently lawless there was a brilliant way of reducing the prison population . |
| 21 | This would explain more about the history of local trade and perhaps show how knowledge of bronze-casting reached West Africa . |
| 22 | In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it . |
| 23 | Being cut in turf , they need to be maintained or they would disappear completely within a generation . |
| 24 | When Hurley got off on one of his tirades , Dany Habib , his number two , would stand in the doorway and roll his eyes , and Connie , his secretary , a typical career civil service type , would cluck around like a mother hen . |
| 25 | It was agreed Somerville and McCrea would stay on at the apartment in case Quinn called in . |
| 26 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 27 | He would stay on through the night although the local doctor had said it was probably useless . |
| 28 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |
| 29 | He said he would stay on until the vacation . |
| 30 | Filmer would stay over in the station . |