Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , Macleod announced during his speech that the government planned to ensure that Hong Kong 's fiscal reserves would stand at HK$71,600 million by March 1997 ( Hong Kong was to revert to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997 ) . |
| 2 | Marryat 's readers would bring at least some associations and some understanding to this piece of special pleading . |
| 3 | But soon the big stories were written in the knowledge that readers would know at least the bare bones from a news bulletin , and the 24-hour cycle of the daily paper lost much of its point as a news medium . |
| 4 | The Kapos would go at it , crudely but effectively , with knives or chisels or any tool that came to hand . |
| 5 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 6 | Hordes of hostile bicycle-rickshaw drivers would jeer at us — and it became quite hard just to walk through the streets . |
| 7 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 8 | ‘ Skinhead , ’ the kids would yell at him as his hair stood on end in a gale . |
| 9 | In fact , the input and headphone sockets are neatly recessed so they 're almost flush with the front panel , which is a neat way of finishing them off and I wish more companies would look at ideas like this . |
| 10 | For visitors would stare at her , ask her questions , would talk and expect a reply , and Alida knew that she could say nothing , could not cope with any demands . |
| 11 | BR trains on the Welshpool and Hereford lines would call at Shrewsbury South . |
| 12 | The working hypothesis examined here was the proposition that NSEs would perform at least as well as standard entrants ( SEs ) In this part of the study the authors considered AEs both as part of the NSE category and as a separate group . |
| 13 | An interesting speculation is that the decline in H pylori infection over the past few decades would account at least in part for the reported decline in duodenal ulcer disease in Western populations . |
| 14 | Besides , there is a back-log of acidity already in the soil ; and according to one estimate , Scottish lochs would remain at their disastrously acid level even if present acid fallout was halved by AD 2000 . |
| 15 | In such conditions some of the turbine blades would glow at a dull red heat , and this represented the practical limit for ferritic steel : higher temperatures could only be attained with the use of special ( austenitic ) steels , which were in short supply in Britain at the time . |
| 16 | About twenty or twenty-five guests would assemble at six o'clock , and we would play party games until supper . |
| 17 | Administration officials said that to achieve that goal , the planes would fly at night and high enough to avoid danger of being shot down and would have no combat escorts . |
| 18 | However matter itself is predicted to be intrinsically unstable on such a scale : the quantum theory implies that evaporation of matter through gravitational interaction with black holes would occur at a rate of around 10 -50 per second , a thousand trillion times faster than spontaneous fusion . |
| 19 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 20 | From the live show — and the lyrics — you imagine Therapy ? to be obsessed with the menacing recesses of the brain that even some horror writers would baulk at . |
| 21 | but Unionists would have at least twice as many , and they would now be free to attack sitting Asquithians too , and with Lloyd George as an ally . |
| 22 | But Ms Sachs said in Belgrade that the UNHCR was determined to get the supplies through and both convoys would remain at Serb checkpoints until they were allowed to pass . |
| 23 | However , some of his more publicised swimming feats were done for cash , and include swims that the majority of exceptional swimmers would baulk at . |
| 24 | It was feared that wheelchair racers would arrive at roads before they had been closed off , so a fastest time limit of one hour and 50 minutes was set . |
| 25 | So Tonks was able to rest easy that no South Africans would play at Treviso . |
| 26 | There are more differences between those groups than there are between the normal things that sociologists would look at ; for example , social class . |
| 27 | Thus the last burst of activity in the UK housing market — from the mid-Eighties to 1989 , when many of the largest mortgages were taken on — was based on the assumption that some rates would remain at or below the ten per cent threshold . |
| 28 | As the forecast assumed interest rates would peak at 14 per cent it has already been eclipsed by events . |
| 29 | As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 . |
| 30 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |