Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 2 | Wou 'd form a Steeple or a Wall : |
| 3 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 4 | O Sister , Sister ! if ever you marry , beware of a sullen , silent Sot , one that 's always musing , but never thinks : — There 's some Diversion in a talking Blockhead : and since a Woman must wear Chains , I wou 'd have the Pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little . |
| 5 | Outside Flanders , Robert 's sister 's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world ; like Louis VI 's sister 's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch , it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies , ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts . |
| 6 | It will be a very long time before the actual causes of war are entirely removed , if ever , but a truly human religion would change the historic misuse of long established religions , and serve as a counter to war , not provide justification for it . |
| 7 | But that action would change the odds . |
| 8 | It would be relatively easy to download catalogue records from a broadband system like JANET , but such an action would negate the possibility of our institutions receiving income from the transactions . |
| 9 | If the action would reinforce the common law action it may be allowed . |
| 10 | A Soviet Foreign Ministry statement of Nov. 30 said that such an action would set a " dangerous international precedent " . |
| 11 | But such a course of action would involve the problem of alternative safe places for the proceeds of sale . |
| 12 | He was sure that the clauses extending police action would have a beneficial effect on national morality . |
| 13 | Sir Russell added that he expected the Chancellor 's action would provoke a strong response from his constituents . |
| 14 | The second problem is that legal action and the threat of legal action would put the Library Associational in almost constant conflict with one or other authority . |
| 15 | The question is whether remedial action would impose an unacceptable economic burden . |
| 16 | Silkin explained in a press interview that he had refused to enforce the law against the postal workers ' trade union because he feared that the action would precipitate a postal strike . |
| 17 | It also excluded the cost of elections , for these were a financial problem for the candidate , not for the local association ; in a large county division an election could cost as much as £2,000 , and even an unopposed return in a borough would cost a few hundred pounds to the lucky winner . |
| 18 | The guardians proposed that the Borough would contribute a quarter of the cost of the building and payment for the patients they sent . |
| 19 | He supposed the Parents ' Association would make a rota of some sort , to come up and do it . |
| 20 | The Association would regard the professional responsibilities of the librarian to include full discretion over the acquisitions made by the library service within the terms of the general guidelines laid down by an employer : in the case of public libraries these guidelines should not be expected to allow local censorship . |
| 21 | I mean I ca n't see the government allowing a building society to actually get into erm er a case of insolvency , I think it , the , the , I think the Building Society Association would force a merger , but it may be on very poor terms or er you know , whatever . |
| 22 | Adoption of this route , however , did not necessarily mean that the association would defy the police in order to march on it . |
| 23 | Rejection of the latest offer by the association would rob the Government of the legimitacy to be gained from imposing an agreed deal on the other five unions . |
| 24 | If so , latent inhibition training that establishes a CS-no event association would retard the course of conditioning . |
| 25 | And we go way back — way , way back , back to the time when you could still buy mono records , when kiwi fruit were yet to be devised , when the khaki-clad representative of the Automobile Association would salute the passing motorist , when a packet of Gold Flake cost a groat and a half and you still had change for a flagon of mead . |
| 26 | He acknowledged they were at odds with the Government over the agreement , but said the North Down association would support the party manifesto . |
| 27 | EVERTON keeper Neville Southall predicted his side would end the season challenging for Europe , even after their seventh defeat in nine games plunged them into relegation trouble . |
| 28 | Deterrence — the knowledge that a strike by one side would provoke a devastating retaliatory strike by the other — was and still is the surest way to keep the peace in a dangerous world . |
| 29 | Coleman 's view was that a sound basis of training in diseases of the horse would enable the veterinarian to acquire equal skill in the diseases of other species . |
| 30 | If a wild and untouched horse was stabled with a domestic one that vocally demanded food , the wild horse would learn the domesticated horse 's vocabulary in a very short time and be whinnying for its breakfast too . |