Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] would " in BNC.
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1 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
2 | Randi describes their methods in detail , except where some professional magicians ' secret would otherwise be exposed . |
3 | The civil servants ' reluctance would be resolved by a ministerial directive that the project must be supported — some action was always better than none , the project would have an impact in several regions , if it worked it would boost exports and create employment . |
4 | Lexandro had expected that the Imperial Fists ' home-base would be on a world . |
5 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
6 | The Liberal Democrats ' total would fall from 22 ( including by-elections ) to 16 in the new Parliament . |
7 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |
8 | MDC noted that a Younger Chemists ' reception would be held during the 1992 annual congress and that Ciba-Geigy had agreed to provide sponsorship . |
9 | Mrs J. Ramsay MacDonald believed that while a prohibition on married women 's work would cause distress in the short term , in the long run it would ensure that men provided for their families . |
10 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
11 | My goal in five years ' time would be |
12 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
13 | Unless cash ratios were imposed on every single financial institution , the control of certain institutions ' lending would merely shift business to other uncontrolled institutions . |
14 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
15 | According to the Middle East Times of July 23-29 Garner " stressed that Western soldiers ' presence would not involve action against the PKK " . |
16 | If it was to be provided in addition to principal repayments in the revenue account , then local authorities ' capital would increase . |
17 | Thus arguments for controlling local authorities ' spending would appear to weigh even less powerfully within monetarist theory than in Keynesian arguments . |
18 | Allchin tried to get revenge by responding that if fairytales were true Jobs 's nose would have grown . |
19 | Samples of both victims ' blood would be taken from the bodies at the post-mortem , but it would be three days at least before he could expect to get the result of the analysis . |