Example sentences of "would [vb infin] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To listen to some officers in this army one would think that no other war had ever been fought but in Spain ! |
| 2 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |
| 3 | You would think that a macabre form of nepotism had recruited hundreds of Count Dracula 's descendants into the higher reaches of the Civil Service . |
| 4 | Only a maniac , he said , would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone . |
| 5 | If he was given a chance consistently then I would think that an effective patnership would develope and greatly improve Rocky 's playing — something that no second team football can do — not to mention improving his confidence . |
| 6 | Papa would think that an odd way to describe the Almighty dollar . |
| 7 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 8 | Most people would think that an accomplished director of commercials would n't need to sit on the bottom of the ocean taking pictures of some of the World 's most dangerous creatures . |
| 9 | We would stress that the broad lines of development which we propose in our description of the 10 levels under this attainment target will require flexible interpretation since we recognise that language development is not linear but recursive , with pupils returning repeatedly to the same aspects of competence and reinforcing their skills on each occasion . |
| 10 | Like the regulationist school , however , this view of long waves would stress that the fifth wave is as yet only embryonic and its form is still to be determined . |
| 11 | The Club is committed to notifying a player should a bid of a certain amount be received , and I would stress that the final decision is always that of the player 's . |
| 12 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 13 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 14 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 15 | The Keynesian view would emphasize that the original increase in the quantity of money will have a ripple effect spreading through the whole financial market until eventually even the less liquid financial assets such as equities are affected . |
| 16 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 17 | Since the long-run apc is the same for both samples , we would predict that the measured apc of the families with above-average measured incomes would be less than the measured apc of the families with below-average measured incomes . |
| 18 | So again we would predict that the measured apc would be higher in a slump year than in a boom year . |
| 19 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 20 | Had he been one , he would know that a large part of the duties of anyone holding my office is to meet business men and their representatives to discuss their problems and concerns . |
| 21 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 22 | If McLeod 's twisted logic was taken to its ultimate conclusion , events over the next two weeks would demonstrate that the Scottish team were ideally suited to sponsoring the work of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Drumchapel Drug Dependency Clinic . |
| 23 | This pseudo-cleft structure would signal that the first part ‘ we are attempting to draw something in this book ’ is given and the second part ‘ this something is a general picture ’ is new . |
| 24 | It 's not it 's brother or sister , or their brother or sister , it is unique , and it 's pattern of development , although of course it will be broadly similar to other children , exactly like no other child , and in a sense I would feel that the parental job is to judge very carefully the needs and the developmental cycle of their own child , and then stimulate to the extent that that child needs . |
| 25 | It 's not it 's brother or sister , or their brother or sister , it is unique , and it 's pattern of development , although of course it will be broadly similar to other children , exactly like no other child , and in a sense I would feel that the parental job is to judge very carefully the needs and the developmental cycle of their own child , and then stimulate to the extent that that child needs . |
| 26 | And from C P R E's point of view we we would feel that the best way to do that is to is to reconvene if that 's the right word , the forum of Greater York authorities to look in more detail at at each of the sectors and under undertake the the technical comparison I think in a in in a fair and reasonable way which which I do n't think we 've really we 've really achieved during erm three hours of discussion today . |
| 27 | I would assume that the mysterious Mr Andropulos has friends in the government . ’ |
| 28 | They would show that the private client is still loved in today 's institutional world . |
| 29 | Such a correspondence would ensure that no political party exercises undue influence and control over the means of communication or that the means of communication do not overwhelmingly support one political party . |
| 30 | At the very least it would ensure that no further harm is done to the child and at best , that his wellbeing was enhanced in every possible way ( p. 45 ) . |