Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds .
2 Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends .
3 A basic result of classical economics was that , given flexible wages and prices , a competitive market economy would operate at full employment .
4 The high-speed line proposed by BR would end at new terminals at King 's Cross and Waterloo in London .
5 And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display .
6 The finest pitch is the second , which includes a magnificently exposed traverse on the minutest of holds with hundreds of feet of space beneath your heels , I did not believe the traverse would go at Severe and tried it higher up , stupidly inserting a runner in the process .
7 Now what this meant in practice was that er y'know appropriate supervisors would appear at random intervals and give people tokens if they were wearing ear defenders , okay ?
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