Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He issued a detailed list of demands and said that the government 's response would determine the speed with which genuine negotiations could resume . |
| 2 | Alexander 's response would have left her breathless anyway . |
| 3 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 4 | Alan Smith , chief executive of the Test and County Cricket Board , said the England team manager 's contract would expire on Sept 16 — the day after the end of the season and Mr Stewart 's 60th birthday . |
| 5 | The judge said , the men 's defence would have involved a re-examination of the events of nineteen seventy four . |
| 6 | As Manuel and I sat drinking our rum punch outside the tavern in the midday sun , patting Sombro and discussing dogs as pets in our respective homelands , we both knew Sombro 's manhood would remain intact and that , as long as he was able to mooch down to the village , he would do so . |
| 7 | I also told Sam that I did n't think the main Benskin 's board would approve the switch to management . ’ |
| 8 | At an informal meeting of G-7 Finance Ministers in London on April 14 , some ministers had expressed fears that the failure to stem the dollar 's rise would provoke a further rise in German interest rates , and in those of other members of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 9 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 10 | But he could not feel so certain inside that Connon 's malady would respond to physical treatment . |
| 11 | In turn , the victim 's GHOST would haunt the Garkain 's jungle , attending the needs of its master and unable to warn away other folk who ventured too near . |
| 12 | Surely the dead man 's ghost would object to this ? |
| 13 | Keith Geddes , the leader of the region 's Labour group , said the council 's support would depend on ‘ whether other players put their cards on the table . |
| 14 | The MRD 's support would give the RDPC , which won 88 seats , an overall majority in the 180-seat assembly . |
| 15 | Underneath the water , Ivor Newley 's skin would have begun to bleach and wrinkle . |
| 16 | He said , when the Birmingham Six were released in nineteen ninety one , it was inevitable the court of appeal 's decision would appear to be a finding of perjury and conspiracy against the police . |
| 17 | That is the equivalent of weighing a fully-laden oil supertanker so accurately that a contraband bottle of whisky in the captain 's cabin would register on the scales . |
| 18 | The instructor 's braking would have been required for the stopping if the pupil had not braked . |
| 19 | McQueen found the ruins , and then claimed to trace the road along which the goddess 's statue would have been borne in procession from the temple to the river for the ceremonial washing attributed to worship of Anaitis . |
| 20 | Lydia 's stubbornness would make Betty look a fool in the eyes of the doctor , so she got cross . |
| 21 | As in Liberia , there is no certainty that the president 's removal would end the civil war . |
| 22 | ‘ The [ Son-of-Sam ] statute represents a response to the outrage expressed by the public at an offender 's ability to profit from his wrong ; but what publisher could contract with an offender if he were not certain that the public 's response to the offender 's story would generate enough profit to make his efforts worthwhile ? ’ |
| 23 | Then she remembered Marianne , and her taunts that Shae 's story would make a terrific play , and gave a hopeless shrug . |
| 24 | Elisabeth calculated correctly that a glance in Mitzi 's direction would satisfy the Austrian that she was being listened to . |
| 25 | Sebastian 's driver would deliver me to him . |
| 26 | The car 's driver would have to manoeuvre so that the line on the screen pointed dead ahead of his car 's nose . |
| 27 | If there was any honour in this Government , Mr Heseltine 's resignation would have been on the Prime Minister 's desk at the same time as the High Court judgment . |
| 28 | Mr Major — who hoped that David Mellor 's resignation would overshadow the debate — was attacked from all sides . |
| 29 | But the exclusion is all-important because women 's presence would dissolve the symmetry between men 's work and masculinity . |
| 30 | There were good reasons for his decision , not least of which was the stability that the old man 's presence would bring to the Security forces . |