Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a few shares in British Aerospace , but nobody would notice if I sold them all . |
| 2 | A beaming bonhomme , with the confiding smile of Harpo Marx , he produces a range of conjuring tricks and juggling , seemingly as surprised as us that they actually work , but so winning is his personality that nobody would worry if they did n't . |
| 3 | None would suspect if she and I changed places , as it were — she wearing my apparel and having her hair dressed in like manner . ’ |
| 4 | Thus it was that Ira Dilworth paid tribute and bade farewell to Emily Carr with the borrowed lines from Thomas Hardy , and I am certain that none would object if I borrow them as my tribute to both . |
| 5 | Such analysis can be approached in two major ways : one can either take all those who were sustained at home for , say , six months or l2 months from referral in both action and control samples , and compare the two groups in order to see whether — as one would expect if the project were successful — those still at home in the control sample were less disadvantaged in home care terms , less poorly circumstanced or had fewer problems than those in the action samples . |
| 6 | This is precisely what one would expect if the above evolutionary account were true . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 8 | However , as with the tachistoscopic paradigm , left-right ear differences in dichotic listening scores are far more labile than one would expect if ear asymmetry is an index of some fixed structural attribute ( Teng , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Perhaps because of disincentives built into the Supplementary Benefit system , the ‘ zero-earner couple ’ category is bigger than one would expect if the wives of unemployed men had the same economic activity rates as the wives of employed men ( see Rimmer , 1987 , p. 44 for a discussion of this phenomenon ) . |
| 10 | Many of the submerged banks and the bottoms of the lagoons of the atolls seem to be at a remarkably uniform depth , as one would expect if they represent an important phase of planation during a long period of preglacial stability . |
| 11 | A very fine example is provided by the natural arch in limestone on the river Ardèche in the Cevennes to the west of the Lower Rhône valley ( Plate 36 ) : this approximates to what one would expect if a meander of the type shown in Fig. 9. 12A had been cut through at the neck . |
| 12 | Suppose that one set the pendulum in motion , waited long enough for transients to die away , and then attempted to predict ( on the basis of previous experience ) what one would observe if one looked at the pendulum . |
| 13 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 14 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 15 | Just the kind of remarks one would hear as parents come out of the display of their children at annual ballet school spectacular . |
| 16 | If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ? |
| 17 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 18 | and everywhere you 've got an a C A you could put an M G and everything would fit because it 's C A double positive M G double positive . |
| 19 | Well , the night after Sandy won his Open he was in the marquee , which was holding his celebration dinner , with his apron on , cleaning up and wishing everybody would go so he could get some peace and quiet . |
| 20 | The night after Sandy won he was in the marquee that was holding his celebration dinner , with his apron on cleaning up and wishing everybody would go so he could get some peace and quiet . |
| 21 | Yeah I mean I I would assume that there must be agreed death rates which everybody would accept as as as being applicable in projecting population . |
| 22 | Anyone would do as long as he was able to explain how that much money could be spirited away in under three months . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think anyone would notice if I crashed out here ? |