Example sentences of "[pron] would a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A middle-class female psychologist , studying working-class women , affects these women differently from the way she would a middle-class female sample , where the investigation would be less powerfully connected with social surveillance and intervention .
2 So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise .
3 What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots .
4 He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb .
5 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush .
6 Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder .
7 Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance .
8 You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush .
9 If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ?
10 He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth .
11 Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse .
12 As the majority of the words would be shorter than this , there would a large amount of wasted space .
13 Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ?
14 He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government .
15 Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country marked its affectionate tribute to Elena as they would a few days later , around 26 January , pour out their loyalty and love to the Comrade on his birthday — for the last time .
16 He himself always adhered to the layering method , as set out in his first publication , the smaller Dictionary of 1724 : ‘ In the Spring prick a great many Holes with an Awl about a Joint that will be in the earth and cover it would a good Mound to peg it down . ’
17 What would a casual caller at Rose Cottage make of Johnny if he were to walk in uninvited during their visit ?
18 What would a rational decision to live in Bali be like , if this is not one ?
19 There is no very compelling reason , however , why foreseeability should not be utilised as the test of remoteness in cases where it is irrelevant to the initial determination of liability : ‘ granted that an escape takes place , albeit unforeseeably , what would a reasonable man regard as the foreseeable consequences of such an escape ? ’
20 Now if we do n't know , let's say we wanted , let's say we want to find out , what would erm what would a hundred and one times twenty seven be ?
21 What would a high-born lady be doing in the wilds of Oxfordshire ?
22 What would a perfect fourth be ?
23 WHAT would a visiting foreigner make of this production of Macbeth by The Raving Beauties ?
24 What would a truthful man say ?
25 So what would a half add a twelfth come to ?
26 What would a half be again ?
27 Erm what would a third add a sixth make ?
28 So what would a third of three sixty come to ?
29 What would a dishy young man like that want with middle-aged me ?
30 What would a fifteenth of the way round be ?
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