Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] would [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a better trained workforce which everyone wants would expect higher pay . |
| 2 | Some of the Members I interviewed would like wider shots and more panning and reaction shots . |
| 3 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 4 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 5 | In this chapter , I shall develop a particular factual example that I believe would impress any engineer , namely sonar ( " radar " ) in bats . |
| 6 | On the basis that this would provide a resource in the Lowtown Bridgenorth area , that I suppose would do two things . |
| 7 | What do you think would constitute best advice ? |
| 8 | Because of the urgent need for the new accommodation , the designs were required within six weeks , and each competitor who submitted would receive 100 guineas . |
| 9 | You invited people you thought would dislike each other and you watched them get along swingingly . |
| 10 | When one woman tried to remove barbed wire from the path of a police horse she feared would get hurt , her photograph became the basis for a frenzied attack which ran the headline , ‘ Horse Whipped With Barbed Wire ’ . |
| 11 | Whatever you think would look nice . |
| 12 | The amount of product we moved would fill 550 olympic-sized swimming pools . ’ |
| 13 | So it 's er , how we used to marry them up was erm two long buses as we called would take ten men to do five duties . |
| 14 | For so long as she and Andrew were together , a pulse , a nerve , something integral to her loving would break free from her control to distort the nearest moment they might share . |
| 15 | But while the Europeans were prepared to go along with an ultimatum to the Serbs that threatened bombing if there were more belligerency , they would not countenance lifting the arms embargo , which they believe would do more harm than good . |
| 16 | Anna Martin described the resistance of working class wives she knew to school meals , which they felt would undermine both their husbands ' obligation to provide and their own role within the home . |
| 17 | Organisations that look after the homeless have pinpointed various disused buildings around the city which they think would make ideal hostels . |
| 18 | A series of nationalist governments has sought help from abroad which they hoped would balance Western backing for Israel . |
| 19 | Trent did n't expect the twelve thicknesses of cotton sheet to last but each minute that they held would gain precious distance . |
| 20 | He would meet American women of all kinds whose faces he imagined would reflect mixed nationalities , and he would tell them he was an actor who had performed before the Queen . |
| 21 | A TOY firm appealed to Renfrew District Council yesterday to reconsider its plans for a £7 million scheme which it says would yield 800 jobs . |
| 22 | Scargill argued for national unity within the ( federal ) union , against the growing call for local wage and conditions bargaining — which he believed would favour some fields but be the harbinger of closure for others . |
| 23 | Prominent in his thinking at the time was Wilhelm Reich , the advocate of the practice of free love , which he believed would bring all power systems crashing to the ground . |
| 24 | We were referred by Mr. Lassman to certain commentaries in Current Law Statutes ( 6 ) –12 ( 1990 ) 18/2 and also in Blackstone 's Criminal Practice , 2nd ed. ( 1992 ) , p. 639 which , when he began referring to them , he believed would afford some assistance to his argument . |
| 25 | The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power . |
| 26 | In two years Gould could not possibly hope to cover all the areas he guessed would prove rewarding . |
| 27 | I was the last person anyone thought would get pregnant . |
| 28 | The architect then showed on paper what he thought would meet those needs , with both of them relying on the practical knowledge and experience of the builder to know how the works would have to be carried out . |
| 29 | The pope envisaged that whomsoever he sent would eradicate all that required uprooting throughout ‘ your island ’ — that is , Britain — and such wide jurisdiction at this time belonged only to Canterbury . |
| 30 | I agree with it , and for the reasons he gives would dismiss this appeal . |