Example sentences of "[adj] we would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the sorts of technical problems I began discussing with my colleague Mike Stewart in the early days of the chick work , when it became clear we would want to try to make this type of measurement . |
| 2 | If we really believed it was risky we would have a financial interest against timber-frame being built . |
| 3 | We had arranged with the agents that if we were interested we would stay the night in a local hotel and the next day meet the builder who had done much of the reconstruction of the place . |
| 4 | If you were to forget that , then I 'm afraid we would fall out . ’ |
| 5 | If we were honest we would admit that every family has such a diplomatic problem . |
| 6 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 7 | However enlightened our investors might be , they were not always convinced we would return from improbable places with improbable footage of expeditions for which no insurance company would dream of covering us . |
| 8 | ‘ It would cost at least £1,500 for a candidate to stand and it is likely we would lose that money , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ When you look at the Tory legislation there is surprisingly little we would say was totally unacceptable . |
| 10 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 11 | They were , in their way , an incentive to early departure for if we passed a little later than usual we would find them at their morning defecation , squatting in a row along a low wall . |
| 12 | ‘ All right , we had a homosexual relationship and it was understood between us that as soon as it was possible we would go away together and start afresh . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , we do go for qualified staff , er , I 'm talking about social work field staff now , er , wherever possible we would go for that . |
| 14 | But where possible we would do a t er a vehicle check . |
| 15 | If the overlap were to be complete we would have perfect communication : both parties would have identical perceptions and whatever happened in one bubble would happen in the other . |
| 16 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 17 | ‘ If we had a full-strength team , you can rest assured we would take some beating in the First Division . ’ |
| 18 | Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it . |
| 19 | Keith and I had got engaged four months before and we said if I did get pregnant we would get married but we never did . |
| 20 | The right hon. Gentleman said that the rates were the most unjust form of local taxation , yet under Labour we would have a revaluation that would be carried out on an arbitrary basis such as the market price ; the rebuilding cost ; the maintenance and repair cost ; the private rent value ; the number of windows , the size of the roof , or the view from the property . |
| 21 | I 'm sure we would pay a very reasonable fee for a rush job . |
| 22 | I am not even sure we would say that the parrot had said it was going to the bank , that is , had made an assertion . |
| 23 | ‘ We knew the dangers and my husband Sammy and son Neil did n't know for sure we would come back . |
| 24 | ‘ It was a casualty-faking — you know , making sure we would know what to do in such a situation . ’ |
| 25 | Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win . |
| 26 | " We 're not really happy with a tie " , he continued , " because we all felt sure we would win . |
| 27 | ‘ If there was going to be a bid , I wanted to make sure we would have a place at the negotiating table , ’ he says . |
| 28 | If he had lived , I 'm sure we would have stayed together — I 'm sure . |
| 29 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 30 | Their rich , warm colour was a powerful reminder of a world that was lost to us and I suddenly felt sure we would see it again . |