Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only someone would explain these things to me , but I was too shy and scared to ask . |
| 2 | In some cases , a Zuwayi who had unwittingly offended someone would constrain that person to forgive him by offering compensation and sacrificing animals to him . |
| 3 | Nobody would want more hay that night . |
| 4 | Nobody would pretend that raising an additional twenty five million pounds is going to be easy but time and again you have risen to the challenge . |
| 5 | The latest addition to Foula 's sparse crime statistics was the sort of incident that nobody would pay much regard to elsewhere . |
| 6 | Smarter people know that nobody would believe any yarn that came anywhere near the truth . |
| 7 | Nobody would spend any money on her , beyond a splash of cheap cosmetic on the exterior . |
| 8 | One would construct alternative scenarios , and brood about them . |
| 9 | Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film , but normally one would avoid such cacophony . |
| 10 | Since paraprofessional social welfare personnel are an important resource for meeting people 's needs , one would assume that policy makers , social service administrators and professional social workers would view them in this light and would do what they could to support and develop this valuable resource . |
| 11 | In the present case , one would suppose that information about the effect of paint on building materials is of fairly limited appeal . |
| 12 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 13 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
| 14 | One would expect such issues to be handled in the training , both pre- and in-service , of all teachers , but our collective experiences and the responses received to the main LITE questionnaire suggest that they are not . |
| 15 | Although the blood groups of the parents are almost certainly incompatible , one would expect diseased foals to be very exceptional because the first offspring is rarely affected . |
| 16 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 17 | Erm I , I just get this feeling , you know one would expect that year eleven is a reasonable way of working out what the , the sort of workload is , and you would think that special needs would actually be something that really related quite nicely |
| 18 | One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units . |
| 19 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 20 | If the contention of Pollak and others is correct that the roles of women reduce the public display of deviance , then it is indeed in such ‘ private ’ areas that one would expect female forms of deviance to be located . |
| 21 | I use the term " child " here in contradistinction to " parent " — not all incest involves juveniles — but one would expect any effect to be more marked the younger the child concerned . |
| 22 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 23 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 24 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 25 | Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none . |
| 26 | One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence . |
| 27 | If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question . |
| 28 | One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work . |
| 29 | No one would place much credence on such a suggestion , but are equally batty notions finding favour with the anti-lead movement ? |
| 30 | Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there . |