Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] would [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’ |
| 2 | This would end with a " Hallelujah " wind-up , or glory march where someone would take the flag and lead a march round the hall to songs of victory and praise . |
| 3 | So that if somebody come in to call , they 'd pull this thing and then Mr or somebody would open the the sliding door and you see . |
| 4 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |
| 5 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 6 | It seemed certain that nothing would alter the situation . |
| 7 | This assumption — that nothing would persuade the Chamberlain Government to make an alliance with the Soviet Union — was axiomatic on the left . |
| 8 | Antoinette married Louis , Léonie explained : so that everyone would think the baby was his . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I think it 's flattering that somebody would take the time . |
| 10 | After my warnings and reports , and then Tony 's murder , [ says Coleman ] I assumed that somebody would have the CIA on the carpet and close NARCOG down . |
| 11 | So it was not surprising that George found that nobody would accept the dangerously exposed position of Prime Minister and that Pitt was indispensable even though he had no majority in the Commons . |
| 12 | He edged his way to the gap between the gas-cooker and the wall , located the stack of newspapers and pulled a full one from underneath so that nobody would notice the pile had been disturbed . |
| 13 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 14 | In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context . |
| 15 | There are no natural boundaries between property price regions , so let us assume that one would use the standard regions — the south-east , the east midlands , the west midlands and so on . |
| 16 | Just signing a form that states that one would like the list of one 's benefits considered is not evidence but mere assertion . |
| 17 | Workers at the shelter say they 're disgusted that anyone would abandon the pupies in such a cruel way . |
| 18 | On examination , the car had been cut badly and now instead of a neat hole which the teeth of the cog could grab , the hole was broken and nothing would make the machine accept this card . |
| 19 | Her father was unwell , she explained ; it would be helpful if everyone would leave the theatre as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 21 | It was a terrible world where people could die and nobody would claim the remains . |
| 22 | According to table 6.2 , nearly a third of the words are still uniquely identifiable , and one would expect the number to be considerably greater under a mid-class representation . |
| 23 | It meant that all one had to do was to go on contacting enough people and one would make the necessary sales . |
| 24 | However , since 1983/84 local government expenditure has fallen slightly as a proportion of GNP and one would question the usefulness of the Retail Price Index as a measure of inflation within local government . |
| 25 | But nothing would settle the issue more abruptly than a DoH response to a challenge issued by Pam Charlwood who , when Institute of Health Services Management director , demanded the government ‘ sort out the differences between social and health care ’ . |
| 26 | He said there was a lot of gossip and speculation but no-one would tell the staff what was going on . |
| 27 | This may not be covered in the initial simple descriptions of the portfolio grids , but one would expect the underlying risk analysis to include such matters . |
| 28 | Furthermore , while nobody would deny the landlord 's solicitor a reasonable fee for the registration of dealings , care should be had to ensure that the registration charge is kept within reason . |
| 29 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 30 | Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals . |