Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] they would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business . |
| 2 | They did , however have unrealised expectations about the number of clients for whom they would need to provide paid support workers even though they predicted that they would not find it necessary to provide such carers for ail clients . |
| 3 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 4 | Another of his innovations was inviting students to Sunday lunch , after which they would join the family in the garden and give ‘ much valuable help ’ . |
| 5 | After which they would inveigh against them as decadent while ordering more of the same for their next well-attended private screenings . |
| 6 | Ahead lay more normal days , during which they would experience more downs in proportion to ups and consequently discover the fickleness of supporters whose approval is conditional on success . |
| 7 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 8 | A new period was about to begin during which they would regain some of their earlier superiority over the base , and bend their efforts even more towards the offensive . |
| 9 | Although the ceremony itself was a simple one — a private exchange of shared intentions in which the most important formal element was the document which laid down precisely who got what in the case of divorce — it was nevertheless going to be used by both sets of parents as an excuse to throw a party , during which they would vie with each other in largesse , showing off their wealth as well as arranging useful introductions for their unmarried children . |
| 10 | Human beings chose the imagery through which they would capture their understanding of God . |
| 11 | The legal basis was being created for workers to set up their own professional , cultural and leisure-time organizations through which they would become integrated with the rest of society . |
| 12 | Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience . |
| 13 | Fourth , many participants frankly admitted that they had very low expectations at the outset : specifically that the course was simply designed to punish them , in return for which they would give the minimum amount of attention possible . |
| 14 | Not only would their number have to be increased but they would also need to undergo years of specialized training for which they would expect a commensurate reward . |
| 15 | The arrangement whereby builders in competition with each other were invited to quote a price for which they would carry out all the work indicated on drawings and a specification , and to sign a contract to that effect , was introduced as a standard procedure by Hunt into the Office of Works as a means of controlling expenditure . |
| 16 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
| 17 | Colleges made a major contribution to that work , an activity , as with In-Service generally , for which they would lack both credibility and resources were their teacher education work to be further reduced , as the proposed reforms threaten . |
| 18 | They would chat and flirt with the legionnaires , making them buy champagne and other expensive drinks , in return for which they would provide female company and , if they found the legionnaire attractive , they would sleep with them . |
| 19 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |
| 20 | Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate . |
| 21 | In Denmark seven of the eight parliamentary parties had reached a national compromise on Oct. 27 on additions to the Treaty on the basis of which they would support a second referendum in 1993 [ see also p. 39158 ] . |
| 22 | Much of what is approved of may match up in their self-image with how they see their strengths and qualities of which they would like more . |
| 23 | It may well be that had they known of it they would have been even more exigent . |
| 24 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 25 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 26 | When pressed and asked , ’ What if British Steel refuses to change its policy after talking ? ’ the Opposition gave no indication of what they would do . |
| 27 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 28 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 29 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 30 | Because of what they would have done to us . ’ |