Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remains in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary under observation but a hospital spokesman could not say if she would remain there a second night . |
| 2 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 3 | The truth was , however , that he cast off the conversation as lightly as he would throw back a small fish . |
| 4 | Such a clause would affect virtually every impoverished museum in Russia , and nothing would be able to prevent their closure . |
| 5 | To the latter , the company replied that as Tamworth Road was to be used by both the Mitcham and Sutton routes , single track there would slow up the whole service . |
| 6 | It would swallow up the whole star . ’ |
| 7 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 8 | If there is a clear pause ( silence ) between ‘ John ’ and ‘ is it you ’ , then according to the definition of an utterance given in the last chapter , there are two utterances ; however , it is quite likely that a speaker would say ‘ John is it you ’ with no pause , so that the four syllables would make up a single utterance . |
| 9 | Diplomats believe Mr Sevan tried to accelerate the decision on who would make up an interim council to replace Mr Najibullah . |
| 10 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 11 | When he saw the saxaphone he told his father about it and his father said that if he could save half the money , he would make up the other half . ’ |
| 12 | You can see that I am representing any vector V as a superposition of two standard vectors 1 and 2 , with coefficients ( as we say ) given by the numbers unc and unc [ For the modern mathematician these numbers would make up the ordered pair ( |
| 13 | And I would make just the same kind of point about the word " family " . |
| 14 | Fine , well I am sure it would make quite a good essay . |
| 15 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 16 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 17 | If this is indeed the case , it would explain why a small dose of a remedy can effect a major change in the clinical condition of patients . |
| 18 | This would explain why the good doctor had got in here . |
| 19 | This , at least , would explain why the murdered reporter had abandoned her research so suddenly . |
| 20 | The supposed decline in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would explain why the air-breathing animals had only been created in the later stages of the earth 's history . |
| 21 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 22 | Free pre-school places for those wishing it remains the main plank of Labour 's education policy and would eat up the vast majority of the extra £4 million the party would spend while still staying within Government capping levels . |
| 23 | She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up . |
| 24 | When The Sun says lesbian mothers are unnatural , Labour instinctively agrees : would Labour back a lesbian mother standing as such to be an MP ? |
| 25 | Therefore , simply to represent Jesus as the Good Shepherd without any explanatory note would convey entirely the wrong impression . |
| 26 | Our existence would lack even an Adamic fig leaf of meaning if we ignored our capacity to glide over our past , coalescing and juxtaposing our memories , irrespective of their temporal spatial or circumstantial labels . |
| 27 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 28 | After the ruling , Koons told the New York Times that he would appeal again the next step is the U.S. Supreme Court because , ‘ since when do judges qualify as critics ? … |
| 29 | Really , the Earth is flat because people would fall off a round Earth . |
| 30 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |