Example sentences of "[pron] we would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 A fair voting system , which we would also like to see in local government , would mean that it would be unlikely that there would ever be extremist Labour councils .
2 which , which we would just have
3 which we would normally subject the claims of political leaders to .
4 I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to .
5 The causal chain between stimulus and response had a kind of inevitability , an independence from processes which we would normally regard as mental : it by-passed our knowledge of the friend 's personality , history , and basic assumptions about human motivation , the orderliness of conduct , and so forth .
6 But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example .
7 The proscription is , of course , a legal convention which we would normally take for granted , but is , in this context , inconsistent with the SI anti-copyright policy and , in the light of the Lautréamont axiom : ‘ Plagiarism is necessary — progress implies it , ’ which Francis cites on page 19 , is an unintended irony .
8 The position that we have held ( and continue to hold ) is that the focus should be on retained recourse , which we would generally expect to write off , and on the retention of significant benefit in relation to the expected performance of assets .
9 Instructively enough , it gives details about a Sicilian landowner , Damophilus , which we would otherwise have attributed to the Sicilian Diodorus .
10 However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process .
11 Lack of ablebodiedness is considered to be a personal tragedy , the overriding feature of Disabled people 's lives and one which we would gladly escape given the opportunity .
12 I have also sent you a catalogue of Greenpeace merchandise so that you may choose from it , and may I draw special attention to the Greenpeace enamel dove badge which we would particularly like you , as a new supporter , to purchase and wear .
13 Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness .
14 Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class .
15 I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate .
16 Is it any coincidence that pharmaceutical companies have found medicines ( which we have to keep taking and paying for ) rather than a vaccine ( which we would only have to take once ) ?
17 He it is who not only empowers us to do right , but works in us the desire to want to do right , without which we would never dream of turning to ask him for his strength .
18 Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ .
19 In case this surprises you , and I 'm sure it does n't surprise those of you who are biologists , we have in Britain two terminal links with such a chain , which we would never regard as anything other than perfectly good species .
20 Even events which we would never passivize in English because they involve only one participant and therefore can not ‘ logically ’ be passivized are expressed in passive structures in these languages if they are unpleasant , for example ‘ I was died on by my father ’ in Japanese .
21 To facilitate the sorting and parcelling of seizures , we had piles of cigarettes , tobacco and spirits spread around the deck and on the quayside which we would never have dared to attempt in any other place .
22 Value added tax has been put on spectacles and surgical boots , which we would never have dreamed of doing .
23 In other words , opposing reunification will make it more likely to occur in the form which we would least want ’ .
24 We could on this basis begin to question the lives of many people which we would subjectively consider to be less fulfilling than our own .
25 Erm if you recall in our managements ' erm in our discussions when I presented the last the last minutes of the er s the subcommittee which has purchased the ground , we agreed to erm co er co-work with two other two of the clubs sports clubs to establish a management committee , which we would then hope would take over management of the ground from the parish council .
26 Ducks swam about on the lake , beside which we would sometimes sit of a summer evening after supper , before going back on duty .
27 The image — summoned by a narrator whose exhausted dreams are filled with girls — is like nothing we would ever meet in the literal Levi .
28 If we did n't have them we would probably have dictatorship which would be even worse !
29 Werner 's " General " turned out to be the commander of the armed forces in southern Celebes — a figure whom we would normally have done our utmost to avoid , given his political power and our absence of filming permits , but he turned out to be an exuberantly friendly man who never asked for them .
30 Well that 's something we would obviously have to sort of , I mean maybe it 's something where you know I mean with the
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