Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] they would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 2 | She did not accept that within a more open-ended task , all children could experience success by setting themselves goals which they would work towards accomplishing . |
| 3 | I want to ask the Minister why his two Back-Bench colleagues from Wolverhampton did not nominate the schools which they would wish to see closed or from which they would like to have surplus places taken away . |
| 4 | When she asked the 56 children in the study who they would go to if worried about something , they chose their mother ; not one said they would go to their father . |
| 5 | When we ask the average PPL what they would do to set up a descent whilst maintaining their present speed , they reply — after some thought — is invariably , " I 'll reduce power , but I shall not have to change the attitude . " |
| 6 | Even in that situation you would probably be rescued by a passing cruise ship , on board which they would stuff you endlessly with food to compensate for the boredom of the interminable view of the sea . |
| 7 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 8 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 9 | Caterers live in the real world , not for them exercise followed by exercise , because they do for real in peace what they would do in war and they would n't want to change that . |
| 10 | delays may occur in the work cycle if matters of a routine nature are entrusted to committees ; committees must not be given responsibilities which they would carry out inefficiently ; |
| 11 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
| 12 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 13 | Such clusters will provide support for teachers and for pupils and will create economies of scale which will allow schools to provide extra resources which they would find it difficult to fund out of their individual budget . |
| 14 | The building of any further houses was resisted on the grounds that the additional families which they would attract might eventually become a charge on the poor rates during periods of economic depression . |
| 15 | Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price . |
| 16 | But of course these stocks are dependent on the amount of wheat sown in the preceding year ; and that , in its turn was largely influenced by the farmers ' guesses as to the price which they would get for it in this year . |
| 17 | The second is that it does not adequately take account of the sad fact of life that health authorities may on occasion find that they have too few resources , either human or material or both , to treat all the patients whom they would like to treat in the way in which they would like to treat them . |
| 18 | Suddenly an army of civil servants were to surrender substantial proportions of their remuneration and were forced to seek , at no little expense , dispensations from — and at the discretion of — the pope , not a prospect which they would welcome . |
| 19 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 20 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 21 | Some will be more businesslike , some will be better equipped , some will be growing , others in decline — all these factors directly affect both the contribution which they could make to a partnership and the objective which they would expect to gain from it . |
| 22 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 23 | The Fine Arts Society denies this , but by lowering the price to £35,000 , just under the export limit , and selling to a foreign buyer , they also avoided the 17% VAT ( sales tax ) on their profit which they would have paid had they sold to a British institution . |
| 24 | Do not hesitate to ask your friends what they would do — they see your home much as the prospective purchaser will see it . |
| 25 | Nobody told Scotland Yard anything they would mind seeing as next day 's headlines . |
| 26 | Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations . |
| 27 | I E it does n't always serve the food which they would like . |
| 28 | Sometimes Hanka Zborowska would go to the grocer and buy a kilo of red beans which they would share with Modigliani , just to make sure they all had something to eat . |
| 29 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 30 | A group of chandlers stood next to a long line of gutted pigs , arguing with their owner about the price of the fat which they would buy to make tallow candles . |