Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] would [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that Iran badly needed TOW anti-tank missiles and in return for them would get the American hostages being held in Beirut released . |
| 2 | The distance between them would indicate a gate with at least two portals . |
| 3 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 4 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 5 | Then , unerringly , he found his way to Modigliani , wherever he was , and the two of them would drink the night away until they were unconscious , taken to the police station and beaten up . |
| 6 | If the business is subsequently hived up to Newco at less than both cost and market value , this will depress the value of Target 's shares , so that a subsequent disposal of them would realise a loss . |
| 7 | Anyway , neither of them would inform the police about him . |
| 8 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 9 | Ruddock , already talking of retirement as he was led , still numb with disbelief , into the night , knew one of them would pay the ultimate price . |
| 10 | ‘ Each of them would blame the other . |
| 11 | The feeling in the dressing rooms after the first round was that one of them would collect the Cup . |
| 12 | Occasionally one of them would glance the youth 's way as if expressing some general unease about him . |
| 13 | He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy . |
| 14 | But most of them would have a neck that was quite high ; modesty was getting to be a really important factor , so we 're covered from head to toe . |
| 15 | But there can be nothing irrational about preferences which are reflectively consistent , so that the agent who pursued all of them would have no regrets . |
| 16 | It would be the amount of I would anticipate the managed fund . |
| 17 | What was more , it was in the highest degree unlikely that any protest of his would have the slightest effect in any matter relating to Hilary Frome . |
| 18 | The £54million package now authorised included the cost of forty six four-car dual-voltage electric units , the introduction of which would enable a greater number of existing units to be withdrawn because of more efficient use . |
| 19 | Breach of the partnership agreement It is usual to specify certain provisions of particular importance ( eg failing to maintain proper accounts or actions which might cause the firm to lose its investment business certificate ) the breach of which would enable the power of expulsion to be exercised and , in a further ground , to refer in more general terms to persistent and general failure to observe the spirit of the agreement . |
| 20 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 21 | The Churchill Bill in 1986 included a list of proscribed depictions any one of which would attract a conviction for obscenity irrespective of context or effect on the viewer . |
| 22 | Before this time , as Froissart was to note and Edward III to experience , many towns had no proper defences other than what could be provided by ditches and water works , neither of which would cause a determined army much trouble . |
| 23 | In the case of the PhD , a supervised course lasting three years in the case of full-time students , the portfolio should normally include one major work , the performance of which would occupy an entire evening : for example , an opera . |
| 24 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 25 | May 11 In a statement issued in Luxembourg , the six GCC countries offer to send an observer to a regional peace conference , thereby partly satisfying Israeli demands that all Arab states play a role in the peace process ( the observer status was devised to differentiate the Gulf states from the " front-line " Arab states bordering Israel , each of which would receive a full seat ) . |
| 26 | The over-simple assumptions widespread in the early 1980s that controlling the supply of money would in some way affect inflation ( the removal of which would introduce a period of substantial growth ) must be considered as being unsound . |
| 27 | cuts in defence expenditure , both of which are irresponsible and both of which would have a devastating effect on our capacity to defend ourselves . |
| 28 | The revised draft committed its participants to a ‘ sovereign federal democratic state ’ based upon a voluntary union of republics with equal rights , each of which would have the right to choose its own forms of property and government . |
| 29 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 30 | will not attempt to register or use for its own benefit , or aid any third party in attempting to register or use , the Trade Marks or any trade mark the use of which would constitute an infringement of 's Trade Marks . |