Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling a little ruefully at her own foolishness , she walked down the lane , guessing rightly that it would take her to the back of the cottage . |
| 2 | He placed it so that it would shine into the right-hand corner of the wall by the fireplace . |
| 3 | The role of the state was to be changed so that it would offer help in the last rather than in the first resort . |
| 4 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 5 | The kitchen clock whirred and struck three — that is , its hammer flailed the air three times , having been bent by Mrs. Jordan , the cook , so that it would fail to strike the chimes . |
| 6 | Inside there was a cart , its body mounted high upon the axle so that it would clear the stagings and pass along the narrow tunnels , and at the back of the enclosure there was a stall in which an aged p'tar browsed at a manger . |
| 7 | So sure enough we let the tyres down sufficiently for it to be roadworthy and not to destroy the tyres on the way there , but soft enough just so that it would go down , and we edged it through and Roy got it through the middle and off we went . |
| 8 | It takes some 5 or 6 years for a nest to produce sexual insects , so that it would appear that the complete defoliation of the immediate area or the removal of the more palatable species would lead to deteriorating conditions for the ants . |
| 9 | The ship 's carpenter had sewn the tiny body into canvas , weighting it at the feet with coal , so that it would sink rapidly . |
| 10 | I realized then that the lamp had been put behind me so that it would light her entrance ; and it was an entrance to take the breath away . |
| 11 | In keeping with the emphasis on liberalism , there was the idea that party competition should be restrained and moderate so that it would involve gradual change and only limited state intervention . |
| 12 | One of the ways in which schools reorganised as comprehensive began to change the curriculum so that it would promote the struggle for equality of outcomes is the development of modular patterns ( Moon , 1988 , Warwick , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | He said that the woman in the house had only a table and television , and had spent the night before polishing the table so that it would bring in a wee bit extra to clear her debt . |
| 14 | Not so that it would stop cars getting across into the car park , but it would nevertheless give the impression . |
| 15 | He envisaged this as a well-balanced wheel driven by a lead weight suspended from its axle so that it would make one revolution between sunrise and sunset . |
| 16 | He also emphasises the ethics : ‘ Certainly if anyone were to advocate placing whale genes or elephant growth hormone genes into the genetic code of a human embryo , so that it would grow to sexual maturity at age six , and twice as tall … |
| 17 | The architecture of triticale was altered so that it would grow shorter ; in this way more photosynthetic effort would go into seed production rather than stems . |
| 18 | Bina who never dreamed — Bina whose moods they all dismissed as ‘ adolescence ’ — Bina who they 'd trained not to let on what she really felt , who did n't even know what she did feel — that same Bina had a dream each night , and she wrote down every single word of it so that it would tell her how to be different , be real , really be . |
| 19 | He had fixed the number so that it would pivot and , on alternate days , would read ‘ 9 ’ . |
| 20 | He banged it so that it would bend . |
| 21 | Their backbone changed so that it would bend in a vertical plane erm the limb girdles changes and a whole number of other things changed associated with locomotion . |
| 22 | so that it would have the affect of decreasing the population in the and decreasing the amount of housing that 's available to people in the . |
| 23 | But Coun Olwen Jones , in a letter to the council , supported the quarry company 's application so that it would have the flexibility to compete for contract work on the A55 . |
| 24 | The year after this Act was passed , Tory MP Winston Churchill tried to extend the scope of the Obscene Publications Act so that it would apply to television . |
| 25 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 26 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 27 | The whole elaborate farce had been staged so that it would seem that the wanted miscreants had been arrested , whereas in fact they were still free . |
| 28 | Prices satisfying these costs are Pareto-superior to go-it-alone prices or prices for subgroups , so that it would seem people would be willing to pay them , yet in our example it turned out that they are not . |
| 29 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 30 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |