Example sentences of "[art] [adj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , if tennis was just the French Open , only the strong would take it up , and even then , many would n't survive . |
| 2 | He suggested that there should be drawn up such an ideal optimum , and only then should the private sector be taken into account to see how the ‘ ideal ’ and the possible would diverge , but always attempting to push towards the ideal . |
| 3 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 4 | Victories would put the Irish on 17 points , Denmark on 16 with Spain still on 13 although the Spanish would have a game in hand . |
| 5 | But for this timely find , Dundee School for the Deaf would have been blown to pieces , along with the Deaf Centre . |
| 6 | The transaction 's commercial object was that the Prudential would acquire a development being carried out by the developers with funds provided by the Prudential . |
| 7 | The cruel would say they are all a load of balls and the more open-minded that they have not had a fair trial ( in cricket terms : a decent net ) . |
| 8 | I thought the enclosed would interest you . ’ |
| 9 | The significance of many particular facts or operations could be perceived only with some background knowledge , which the uninitiated would have little wish or reason to acquire . |
| 10 | In pastoral sermons , the archbishop continued to oppose civil divorce , claiming that the weak would suffer as a consequence , along with the well-being of society . |
| 11 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 12 | But if this were to happen , only the rich would benefit . |
| 13 | For Lebanon was run by the zaim ( or , more accurately , zuama ) , the ‘ leaders ’ , the powerful feudal chieftains whom the Lebanese would describe as ‘ honoured families ’ but whom the average Westerner would quickly identify as mafiosi . |
| 14 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 15 | It would be wrong to assert that Ayrshire 's claim to Old King Cole of the nursery rhyme can be substantiated beyond reasonable doubt but only the foolish would ridicule the ancient legend . |
| 16 | And those firms that , in addition to the training programme for their own workers , initiate programmes within their companies to train the unemployed would receive a further rebate . |
| 17 | The unemployed would vie with the employed by offering their labour services at lower wages . |
| 18 | Lee Jang-lim , 46 , said the faithful would ascend to heaven in a ‘ rapture ’ on October 28 as Armageddon struck the world . |
| 19 | The ADATH policy of rejecting all non Jewish offers to help assumed that if the RCM took an equally hard line , the faithful would rise to the challenge . |
| 20 | His uncontrolled and vicious rhetoric before assemblies of the faithful would have shocked the polite Park Lane diners far more profoundly . |
| 21 | In all cases shown , rocks near the base of the Palaeozoic would have passed the dry gas deathline even before the Variscan orogeny . |
| 22 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 23 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 24 | Instead , it almost looked as though the English would succeed . |
| 25 | This was something which the English would do their utmost to prevent happening . |
| 26 | If the English would execute the son of Sir Alexander Seton , a noted Scots knight , would they hesitate over ordinary townsfolk ? |
| 27 | I am what the English would call ‘ on the shelf ’ : eccentric in their eyes . |
| 28 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 29 | But the English would have been worse . ’ |
| 30 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |