Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] would " in BNC.

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1 In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk .
2 If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying .
3 In the latter case we would almost certainly be seeing the galaxy during its formation phase .
4 In the latter case I would be more likely to give you options and a reason , by saying : ‘ Would you mind moving slightly .
5 Although such numbers are obviously justified by the particular circumstances of Lewis and Harris , eg in the developing world they would be regarded as lavish for a much larger population .
6 The superego is a relatively modern acquisition and is the psychological agency which is the inner counterpart of what in the outer world we would call ‘ culture ’ or ‘ civilization ’ .
7 The way to secure future prosperity is by embracing change not resisting it and as my honourable friend er indicates , by using our skills to best effect and competitively in a global market place were we to embrace the policies of members opposite in the European community we would shut the job , the door to the jobs which will come from that inward investment because we have opted out of the social chapter we do indeed have the opportunity that comes from being , if I may qui may quote er President Delors a pa a paradise for inward investment .
8 To many observers in the outside world it would appear that the religion is in little danger .
9 He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold .
10 Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient .
11 But in the preceding half-century it would be possible to speak in terms of an Angevin seaborne as well as land-based empire .
12 I like to know which players in the premier league you would pick to form a 18 men squad if you were manager of a new team .
13 In the new programme they would focus heavily on what determines productivity .
14 Er , certainly in , in the first paragraph we would say that we have drawn attention over the years to the nuisance of illegal parking erm , by travellers particularly in Stewards erm while travellers have the right to live their own lifestyle we also believe that other residents have the right to live free from that kind of nuisance and problem and that it does need to be addressed somehow .
15 Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him .
16 There were , moreover , many commercial men within the Boards who felt that in the long run it would be desirable and economic to win the space heating load .
17 Mrs J. Ramsay MacDonald believed that while a prohibition on married women 's work would cause distress in the short term , in the long run it would ensure that men provided for their families .
18 Accordingly , in the present case it would have been , I think , impossible for the solicitors , however careful they had been , to make an assessment which accurately reflected the remuneration which would have been paid to them and to counsel after the matter had been considered under the arrangements provided by the legal aid board .
19 Some problems in the Marxist theory of history , and various new interpretations of it which allow a greater autonomy to political changes for example , the emergence of the absolutist state — were discussed earlier ; and in the present context I would like to focus attention upon two more recent phenomena , and to ask whether or not they can be considered as major changes of political regime .
20 If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar .
21 In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life .
22 ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’
23 ‘ If I am lucky enough to be chosen in the Scottish squad it would cap a memorable end of season . ’
24 For example , in the two-period model described in the previous section it would seem likely that if aggregate demand became more volatile firms would become much more reluctant to agree to set prices two periods in advance , and so perhaps they would set prices only one period in advance : the nature of price rigidity would change in response to a change in the economic environment .
25 In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision .
26 Back in the 10th century they would scoop out holes in the sand to get at the crude for medicinal purposes .
27 If you are looking to buy a new computer in the near future it would be wise not to obtain one with less than 4 meg of RAM on board .
28 and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon
29 In the longer term we would support a review of the B1 Business Use Class to extend the powers of local authorities over this form of development .
30 In the longer term it would mean adopting a local income tax .
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