Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd notice and would n't mention it because mentioning would bring everything into the open again . |
| 2 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 3 | They would possess none of the inherent tactile and balancing powers of hers , or that creature outside . |
| 4 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 5 | Of course , such enlargements would have none of the glossy prettiness of the snaps in the guidebook . |
| 6 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 7 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |
| 8 | We still have our two traditional enemies , but now a third looms an enemy in the Labour Party an enemy supporting the now ancient cry of the Tories and the Tory national press , for one man one vote replacing the vote in the trade unions a distancing of the Labour Party from the unions if we let them get away with this , it would mean none of the established political parties represent the interests of ordinary working people the people who I 've always represented , that 's what I think about , just them ! |
| 9 | Although his conservative clothing and mild manners did n't show it , he was becoming a ‘ Right-On ’ , and he would support anything on the new agenda . |