Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue . |
| 2 | Then their killers dumped the bodies into the Indian Ocean , hoping they would be swept out to sea and eaten by sharks . |
| 3 | The independent authority 's direct responsibility would be given back to government . |
| 4 | They would be coming back to education , however , to build upon the qualifications they had already begun to acquire , and would feel at least equal , if not superior in some respects , to their peers who had remained in full-time education . |
| 5 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
| 6 | Jaq presumed that periodically these would be switched on to prune the jungle back . |