Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] would [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information relating to another or which would identify another as its source may not be shown unless that person consents . |
| 2 | She began to think of whom , what , where she would photograph first . |
| 3 | Where she would lie still , huddled close to fur scarred and torn , half dead with cold and hunger . |
| 4 | ‘ Father Abbot , you were not with us in Gwytherin , or you would recognize this wonder . |
| 5 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 6 | I 've even considered hypnosis , but I do n't think either you or she would want that . ’ |
| 7 | But after they had eaten she would take his head in her lap and comb his hair , or she would play sweet tunes on her pair of bone pipes . |
| 8 | so , if a songwriter has a 60:40 publishing deal , he or she would receive 60 per cent of the PRS payment , and the publisher would get the other 40 per cent . |
| 9 | on the release of a writer 's first album , it is unlikely that he or she would have enough qualifying works to become a publisher member of PRS ( see the ‘ Copyright and Performing Right ’ article for details on these qualifying requirements ) . |
| 10 | But she followed him or she would get lost . |
| 11 | If for example the full time officers er negotiated with you know , for a district rate , erm Brothers and , and , and er er or whoever would concede that district rate . |
| 12 | As well as challenging the justification for piecemeal projects at a local level , especially where they would affect designated landscapes , we believe we need to develop a strategic overview of transport policy in Wales , questioning the present approach and proposing less environmentally damaging alternatives . |
| 13 | Briefly , this trade consisted of large factory ships or latterly , freezer trawlers , lying in the more sheltered anchorages around the coasts of the UK where they would load fresh herring and mackerel from British fishing vessels directly arrived from their fishing grounds . |
| 14 | The dacha was owned by a doctor who , Vasili reasoned , would be able to snap Lena out of her trance ; then the two of them could set off for Tula on the banks of the River Don where they would lie low until , with time , the investigation wound down . |
| 15 | If the water did enter a person 's house they were usually able to move all of the furniture and possessions upstairs where they would keep safe and dry , but this was not possible for all the residents . |
| 16 | You could n't ring the bell or they would go mad . |
| 17 | This was achieved by a reduction in the weight : within the country a coin with a silver value of three drachmas was officially valued at four , and clearly no one would export it or they would lose 25 per cent of its value . |
| 18 | However , a move to Besiktas , where he would earn big money , would prolong his Liverpool connection , for they are coached by ex-Reds midfielder Gordon Milne , who has been highly successful since joining the club . |
| 19 | Passing Scalpay , Johnson suggested to Boswell that they buy the island , ‘ found a good school ’ on it , and an episcopal church , ‘ and have a printing-press where he would print all the Erse that could be found ’ . |
| 20 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 21 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 22 | The chief officer pointed out : ‘ In circumstances where it would prove uneconomic to apply the full rigours of building regulations , it is reasonable for the council to grant relaxations . ’ |
| 23 | She knew she must get out of the car quickly , or it would get stuck behind the steering wheel . |
| 24 | She knew not what to expect , or what would happen next . |
| 25 | At one time I would have suggested that everyone would shed surplus fat on a ration of 1,500 calories daily . |
| 26 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 27 | " To be honest , even when we had a girls ' training week at Inverclyde it was almost on the schedule that everyone would get legless on one of the evenings . " |
| 28 | Chris Goodenough , 19 , student ( above ) : ‘ I prefer the Seventies style , although I would wear this top . ’ |
| 29 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 30 | Erm however , if it could be made clear perhaps with an extra paragraph in the explanatory memorandum that I would welcome that . |