Example sentences of "[pron] would a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise .
2 What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots .
3 He meant amputate , as you would a diseased limb .
4 7 Remember to replace your brush roughly every three months , as you would a manual toothbrush .
5 Making expressive music with the aid of such devices is easy : just switch the quantisation off and treat the sequencer exactly as you would a multi-track tape recorder .
6 Basically , you hold this as you would a short leash , wrapped around your bottom two fingers and tied to your glove , so that you can easily pay it out as you increase the flight distance .
7 You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush .
8 If the promise was not met , could the employee use the mail message as s/he would a postal mail letter to sue for breach of contract or to support other legal action ?
9 He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth .
10 Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse .
11 As the majority of the words would be shorter than this , there would a large amount of wasted space .
12 Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ?
13 He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government .
14 Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country marked its affectionate tribute to Elena as they would a few days later , around 26 January , pour out their loyalty and love to the Comrade on his birthday — for the last time .
15 He himself always adhered to the layering method , as set out in his first publication , the smaller Dictionary of 1724 : ‘ In the Spring prick a great many Holes with an Awl about a Joint that will be in the earth and cover it would a good Mound to peg it down . ’
16 What would a casual caller at Rose Cottage make of Johnny if he were to walk in uninvited during their visit ?
17 What would a rational decision to live in Bali be like , if this is not one ?
18 There is no very compelling reason , however , why foreseeability should not be utilised as the test of remoteness in cases where it is irrelevant to the initial determination of liability : ‘ granted that an escape takes place , albeit unforeseeably , what would a reasonable man regard as the foreseeable consequences of such an escape ? ’
19 What would a high-born lady be doing in the wilds of Oxfordshire ?
20 WHAT would a visiting foreigner make of this production of Macbeth by The Raving Beauties ?
21 What would a truthful man say ?
22 Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ?
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