Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only someone would explain these things to me , but I was too shy and scared to ask . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly someone would carry this important news to the castle . |
| 3 | In some cases , a Zuwayi who had unwittingly offended someone would constrain that person to forgive him by offering compensation and sacrificing animals to him . |
| 4 | see , you 'd think someone would recognise that would n't you ? |
| 5 | say it at school and somebody 'd say that and go oh ! |
| 6 | But he sympathised with others : ‘ You can see how it would do the post offices harm and nobody would want that , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Nobody would want more hay that night . |
| 8 | Nobody would pretend that raising an additional twenty five million pounds is going to be easy but time and again you have risen to the challenge . |
| 9 | Indeed , that only underlined the moral : pop music could be playful , and possibly even subversive , but nobody would pretend any more that it was anything but business . |
| 10 | No ruling class , no working class , just people producing wealth as they produced it , consuming it that would be an efficient society where nobody would go hungry , there would be no unemployment , no poverty and er it 's the ultimate objective of er the human race . |
| 11 | The latest addition to Foula 's sparse crime statistics was the sort of incident that nobody would pay much regard to elsewhere . |
| 12 | Smarter people know that nobody would believe any yarn that came anywhere near the truth . |
| 13 | No , I think nobody would like that , either . |
| 14 | Nobody would spend any money on her , beyond a splash of cheap cosmetic on the exterior . |
| 15 | Quite a bit had spilled over the floor already so nobody would notice any more . |
| 16 | Look come and see it 's how false it is nobody nobody would have all this white you know , how stupid it 's really completely false , they would have colours an and not just white with beige . |
| 17 | ‘ I am horrified that somebody would do such a thing . |
| 18 | A nice little table , you 'd think somebody would recognise that would n't you ? |
| 19 | One would construct alternative scenarios , and brood about them . |
| 20 | Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film , but normally one would avoid such cacophony . |
| 21 | Considering the pottery from the pre-forum levels illustrated , with the advantage of hindsight , one would date some of the vessels later than 120 , possibly 130 — 140 would be a better terminal . |
| 22 | Since paraprofessional social welfare personnel are an important resource for meeting people 's needs , one would assume that policy makers , social service administrators and professional social workers would view them in this light and would do what they could to support and develop this valuable resource . |
| 23 | In the present case , one would suppose that information about the effect of paint on building materials is of fairly limited appeal . |
| 24 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 25 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
| 26 | One would expect such issues to be handled in the training , both pre- and in-service , of all teachers , but our collective experiences and the responses received to the main LITE questionnaire suggest that they are not . |
| 27 | Many hon. Members on both sides of the House have cut their political teeth in local government and one would expect such Conservative Members to show more loyalty towards it . |
| 28 | Although the blood groups of the parents are almost certainly incompatible , one would expect diseased foals to be very exceptional because the first offspring is rarely affected . |
| 29 | One would expect modern social representations to incorporate opposing themes ( see Billig , 1982 , for a discussion of the internally contradictory themes of modern ideology ) . |
| 30 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |