Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payment of social security benefits to millions of people , most of whom would otherwise have little or no income , injects massive amounts of money into the economy . |
| 2 | Consider , then , two genuinely peace-loving ‘ players ’ , each of whom would most prefer mutual disarmament . |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | This leaves the possibility of a splendid house being found in the east courtyard , where the museum and custodian 's house now stand ; but had any substantial remains survived , traces of them would surely have been found when those buildings were erected . |
| 5 | One or other of them would surely employ her . |
| 6 | ‘ He was left in no doubt many of them would rather pack up and leave than sign these new leases and face the financial problems that appear to go with them , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I felt sure lots of them would already have young to rear and by transporting the does elsewhere the young were doomed to die wastefully . |
| 8 | Until the trial , few of them would probably have read The Face . |
| 9 | Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history . |
| 10 | In this large body , very few would have known the pre-Conquest church ; and most of them would probably have been children of the new gentry in the neighbourhood of Canterbury , perhaps with parents of mixed Anglo-Norman origin . |
| 11 | The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted . |
| 12 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
| 13 | They usually some of them would just order it through the vil the merchants , through the shops here . |
| 14 | Why , lo and behold , one of them would solemnly type ‘ Methinks it is like a weasel , and another would almost certainly type ‘ I think therefore I am ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I know that lots of them would never dream of voting Labour , but it does n't bother me . |
| 16 | Most of them would never set eyes on the place and few felt any loyalty towards it . |
| 17 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |
| 18 | He had received several enthusiastic offers , though he wondered how many of them would really turn up in church . |
| 19 | When the people stopped and turned , their socks and shoes full of muddy water , they were rewarded with a sight none of them would ever forget . |
| 20 | Taking souvenir pictures neither of them would ever live to see . |
| 21 | None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect . |
| 22 | German agents would escort his baggage through all security checks , and one of them would personally place the baggage on the plane . ’ |
| 23 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 24 | Anna was inclined to think that most of them would only notice if he looked disgustingly well , when they could say suspiciously to one another , The Rector looks all right , does n't he , wonder what he 's been up to ? |
| 25 | By contrast , there are 2 basic operations at the lowest level ; so if instead all the basic operations were applied directly , at a single level , the first of them would only gain credit during the 2 th successful search . |
| 26 | Of course , it would be self-defeating if all tadpoles were to become cannibals , since none of them would then eat the plant material on which the chain depends . |
| 27 | Yesterday , the court heard that Mrs Gilfoyle had told her husband that a woman friend of his would only move into their home ‘ over my dead body . ’ |
| 28 | Shorts register civilian Tucano G-BULU below which would logically have meant an appearance at the SBAC show , but it did not in fact appear . |
| 29 | For fear that those who disseminate racist propaganda would turn to newer mediums of communication , it was decided to deal explicitly and comprehensively with all forms of communication such as films , tapes , records and video recordings , f not all of which would unambiguously have fallen within the proposed law . |
| 30 | One proposal was for a new head of state to be elected by the National Assembly , but under an alternative plan the National Assembly would elect a Presidium , the chair of which would also assume the post of head of state . |