Example sentences of "[pron] would [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would no more look at her today than a bar of soap . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I would never subject Kirsty to that sort of tug-of-love . ’ |
| 3 | The Assembly 's meeting in New York at the moment to decide whether Cambodia 's seat will be given to the newly agreed Supreme National Council ; a move which would please many people and organizations such as Oxfam and Christian Aid , who were opposed to the Phol Pot regime . |
| 4 | Once , she had thought of herself as so English that however happy she was abroad and even if married to an Italian she would always one day gravitate home . |
| 5 | It may be advisable , therefore , especially in the case of a young dog which is not yet fully trained to return when called , to keep your pet on the leash more than you would under normal circumstances . |
| 6 | Mr Orange warned that the costs involved in addressing environmental pressures on the worldwide oil industry were rising to a point where they would soon equal revenues . |
| 7 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 8 | A new Education Allowance will be introduced , allowing 30,000 long-term unemployed to join full-time vocational courses without losing benefit entitlement , as they would under current rules . |
| 9 | Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) . |
| 10 | Are we to conclude , therefore , that the Anglican Church 's neglect of purification ritual for women is not because it believes women to be ‘ clean ’ , but because it would rather such matters were n't mentioned at all ? |
| 11 | And then playing a a hook , bowling a hook with a sort of a long hook to An iron hoop or hook it would about two foot six in circumference . |
| 12 | So so it would about four days . |