Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 2 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 3 | It was highly likely that only half of us would complete the training , he said , and that many of us would try to desert . |
| 4 | Each of the Six Clerks in Chancery was reputedly worth £3,000 annually ; while this sum was certainly exaggerated , even half of it would have been a substantial amount . |
| 5 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
| 6 | Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor . |
| 7 | Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced . |
| 8 | Some of them would suckle forever if they could . ’ |
| 9 | My wife kept an open door for them and any time Well at the weekend they 'd Some of them would drop in , you know , for a chat , aye . |
| 10 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 11 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |
| 12 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 13 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 14 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 15 | Tapes and yards of lace and and er sometimes some of them would have even pieces of cloth for an apron , if you know what an apron is . |
| 16 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
| 17 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 18 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 19 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 20 | so that when it er , come apart you would have some of it together and some of it would bond together so that you could do it yourself then . |
| 21 | But with all that enthusiasm you 'd think at least some of it would rub off on David 's employees ? |
| 22 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 23 | The luggage made a sort of mountain in the barrow , and some of it would have to be lashed to the sides with ropes . |
| 24 | That 's why we were chopping and changing because some of you 'd say one thing |
| 25 | In the light of such a definition some of us would admit that we still have some growing up to do ourselves . |
| 26 | At the bottom is physics , the most reductionist of all ; above it there is biology ; then psychology and anthropology ; sociology ; and ( some of us would wish to add ) theology . |
| 27 | Comment : Some of us would like to be psychoanalysts . |
| 28 | The Rev Aaron Longwe , who has been detained and tortured by the regime for speaking out about corruption , told a gathering of former missionaries at the Kirk 's headquarters in Edinburgh : ‘ If it were not for the Church of Scotland some of us would have been dead by now . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 30 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |