Example sentences of "[noun prp] would [vb infin] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Maybe one day , Boardwalk would pick up a bad race — like the John Sturgeon Selling Plate at Kempton .
2 While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet .
3 ‘ That sailor said Matthew would come home a man .
4 It was calculated from relatively simple one dimensional models that 500 Concorde-like SSTs would cause approximately a 3 per cent ozone reduction , whereas a similar number of the planned Boeing SSTs would reduce the ozone by 15 per cent ( US National Research Council , 1975a ) .
5 Another aspect of the proposal was that Glaxo would set up a research centre and co-market Imigran with a French company .
6 But , as Nigel Haigh of the IEEP has pointed out , even if 1970 ( the year of peak emissions ) was taken as a baseline , the UK would achieve only a 44 per cent reduction as against 80 per cent for the Netherlands , 56 per cent for West Germany and 50 per cent for Belgium .
7 Lee would pick out a suitably drunk customer , extol the virtues of his " sister " and then lure the man into a nearby darkened alley where , more often than not , the customer was attacked and robbed of everything he had on him , sometimes even his clothing .
8 They had decided , the previous evening , after Cain and Abel and How the Camel Got his Hump , that every day Willie would get up a little earlier than usual to practise writing and reading before leaving for school .
9 However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience .
10 Something that he did n't take into account when working out forecasts , however , was that ICL would set up a new subsidiary , ICL PC GmbH .
11 A genuinely free air-travel market in America and Europe would spark off a wave of restructuring among European airlines .
12 It was agreed that the SAS would carry out a series of raids on these airfields in early July , leaving only a week to prepare for departure .
13 One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists .
14 But RCA would offer only a one-off payment of $1 million .
15 A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat .
16 A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat .
17 One day Penelope would bring home a Tibetan holy man , another time the entire Black Panther party .
18 Under the proposal Poland would allocate over a twenty-year period the zloty equivalent of the hard currency involved to set up and develop schemes to reduce pollution and improve the environment in Poland .
19 The EC would take on a direct role in defence affairs in the medium term by gradually absorbing the WEU .
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