Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] we would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with , how can we possibly know what we would really need if stricken by serious illness or accident perhaps many years later ? |
| 2 | As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ? |
| 3 | From the end of William 's reign , when contemporaries talked of a struggle between Court and Country , they were describing what we would more readily recognise as a clash between Whigs and Tories . |
| 4 | Well just just to reiterate , I mean we we would still like to have that letter from you confirming that . |
| 5 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 6 | County cricket in its early days appealed to both middle and working classes , many of whom enjoyed what we would now call ‘ flexi-time ’ . |
| 7 | If we did n't have them we would probably have dictatorship which would be even worse ! |
| 8 | I believe in wearing what you feel comfortable , you work better and er like the block , well you 'd , right after we 'd cut anything we 'd just |
| 9 | A crash in the direction of the Town Hall warned us we would soon be needed . |
| 10 | It means that they should be and do what we would reasonably expect of them . |
| 11 | I think what we would now say is that of course women are extremely competent programme-makers , but there is n't a lot of evidence that they want to cover different topics . |
| 12 | Early workers concentrated on destroying the immature aquatic stages in their breeding places using what we would now call environmental management . |
| 13 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 14 | As early as the 1740s , scholars had deployed what we would now recognise as a valid historical methodology for questioning the veracity of scriptural accounts . |
| 15 | ‘ Not that he had anything we 'd really like to inherit . |