Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it is not used much the trenchant criticisms of it would appear to demand reform , as it appears to be a blunt instrument which ‘ should be honed down to produce a greater quality of justice . ’ |
| 2 | We were also convinced that unless we could get the politicians and so called ‘ medical experts ’ to start exercising their minds , then the people in communities like ours would continue to die before their time and our children would be damaged before they even got a chance to live . |
| 3 | It 's only lunatics like us would make it this far . ’ |
| 4 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 5 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 6 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 7 | If there were not sufficient expectation that a failed , conventionally organised enterprise could be restored to viability as an industrial co-operative , the injection of resources into it would divert them from more promising projects . |
| 8 | By having a friend to share their problems with they would feel less isolated and could learn how to cope . |
| 9 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 10 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 11 | If it could be demonstrated that English facilitated ‘ objectivity ’ more than other languages , then users of it would have a powerful weapon for affirming and legitimating their rights to certain positions of authority in relation to cultures or sub-cultures in which language use lacked this quality . |
| 12 | The mechanics of it would capture the young imagination . |
| 13 | Rollin condemns it outright , and most instances of it would fall foul of the UK 1986 Act ( sections 14 and 15 ) : |
| 14 | In the future , colleges like his would have to sell courses and expertise widely , often linking on a franchise basis with higher education establishment , to supply components for degree and other higher qualifications while extending to younger students , the opportunity to gain a variety of academic and vocational ones . |
| 15 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 16 | What he means is that the light is dreadful and only desperate hacks like me would take photos in it . |
| 17 | They would look to the er er to the constitution of of of France in say seventeen ninety one or the more radicals amongst them would look erm the more er the more radical liberal if that 's not er , if that 's not a , not a contradiction in terms , do n't think it is . |
| 18 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 19 | I wonder how many other senior citizens like me would welcome the return of shops selling tripe and onions , faggots and peas and pock hocks ( ready cooked — lovely grub ! ) |
| 20 | Geologists realized that the formation of the rocks and the fossils in them would have taken hundreds or thousands of millions of years . |
| 21 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |