Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that this would " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course I realized that this would be a pretty gratuitous move , under the circumstances . |
| 2 | One of these areas was an arable field that had been rolled flat , and I felt that this would provide a good opportunity to experiment with the machine 's settings . |
| 3 | I gathered that this would be a bad thing . |
| 4 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
| 5 | I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination . |
| 6 | Within seconds of the stalls going up , she realized that this would be a problem . |
| 7 | In terms of female users , this can be particularly tragic as in the following case , where the woman did not seek treatment because she assumed that this would eventually lead to the placing of a care order on her children : |
| 8 | At the time , she imagined that this would help her study immeasurably . |
| 9 | She knew that this would be a black cloud hanging over her for the rest of her working life . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just coming , ’ called Lydia , thinking how amusing it would be to make a big splash and drowning noises , but even she knew that this would not be the action of a nice woman . |
| 11 | Dawn was advised that she might obtain more money if she went to court , but she felt that this would be too hard for her emotionally , even though she had no memory of the accident or indeed of the friend who had died . |
| 12 | The Lebanese being quite short and Waite being quite tall , I guess they thought that this would show if Islamic Jihad was treating him right . |
| 13 | The CC C P Par army was a quarter the size of the K M T and had little money and no tanks , therefore it needed mobilization of the peasants in the villages , they needed the peasants to volunteer to join the P L A and to protect their own property so they thought that this would be an incentive for them . |
| 14 | On the proposal in Recommendation 18 to set up a committee to advise on priorities for grant-aid , he argued that this would help to keep the WEA on its toes , true to its traditional concerns for rigorous study of subjects appropriate to understanding contemporary society . |
| 15 | He admitted that this would involve ‘ a change in mentalities , ways of thinking and prejudices , all of which have a long history ’ . |
| 16 | He noted that this would reduce the risk of accidental or inadvertent conflict between the superpowers , aid the depolarisation of regional conflicts , and raise both states in the eyes of the non-aligned nations . |
| 17 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 18 | Where it seemed that this would cause injustice , equity stepped in with the doctrine of " part performance " : if the contract were partly performed , equity would not allow a statute to be used " as an engine of fraud " . |
| 19 | He believed that this would reveal that the evolution of society followed ‘ invariable laws ’ . |
| 20 | It claimed that this would extend the life of the timber reserves of Sarawak to at least 20 years , in contrast to the International Tropical Timber Organization 's estimate of 11 years . |
| 21 | To a person more interested in the advance of science he might perhaps have tried to explain what he was after , but with Lucy he perceived that this would not be a success . |
| 22 | Naseby 's eyes narrowed as he indicated that this would be an early priority . |
| 23 | He knew that this would disturb Archbishop Fisher , which he did not wish to do . |
| 24 | He stressed that this would be temporary whilst he looked for a replacement . |
| 25 | He said that this would be unnecessary and I got the distinct impression that I should not ask any more questions about it but be content that I had got my letter back . |
| 26 | The Shah told " Moustachio " that he had avoided a bloodbath and he hoped that this would mean that one day the monarchy could again play a part in Iranian life . |