Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the campaign would continue at all levels . |
| 2 | He looked down at the child , surprised , as if the boy would vanish at any moment , leaving him holding nothing . |
| 3 | Most people would laugh at either suggestion as they hunt in their pocket or purse for a copper or two , ‘ just for luck ’ . |
| 4 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |
| 5 | Good dealers in shares and futures would laugh at this yardstick . |
| 6 | In a region that prides itself on its cuisine and that boasts a strong tourist industry , it might have been supposed that indigenous entrepreneurs would leap at such an opportunity . |
| 7 | Today 's players would laugh at such a fuss . ’ |
| 8 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
| 9 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , but you can imagine the problems that Gus would have at that time , and I could see why he would react like that . |
| 11 | It was n't the sort of thing my dad would wear at all . |
| 12 | The little ones would giggle at that if they noticed , and if they giggled she 'd know what about , he was sure . |
| 13 | ‘ The sense of outrage that some of those MPs would feel at such intrusiveness might help them to understand current feelings in certain sectors of education , ’ he said . |