Example sentences of "would [verb] ahead " in BNC.

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1 He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up .
2 So you would ride ahead of them ?
3 It had been arranged that I would remain in Johannesburg and Max would proceed ahead to Salisbury to see whether Ian Smith would wish to see me .
4 He also said that he would press ahead with the controversial plans announced by his predecessor to revise the Constitution in such a way as to permit the despatch of Japanese troops to other countries [ see p. 38529 ] .
5 A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Oct. 2 that Russia would press ahead with the sale of diesel submarines to Iran despite reports of difficulties over payments [ see p. 39122 ] .
6 Dr Marek said it was also likely that Saville 's would press ahead with opencast coal-mining on land near Lodge , causing further problems in a community already devastated by the loss of 1,200 steelworks jobs .
7 A Conservative government would press ahead with plans for a fourth Trident submarine and a helicopter carrier .
8 Earlier George Robertson , the Labour spokesman on European affairs , vowed that the Opposition would press ahead with the social chapter amendment to allow the Commons to express its view .
9 While window-shopping in Manhattan or on Broadway , they would find that they were being followed block after block , then , having sized up her figure and made certain the Girl was aware she was being followed , the man would walk ahead , glance round to check that her face was as good as her body and start a conversation .
10 And it was leaked barely hours before Edward Kangas , head of Touche Ross International , announced that the proposed merger to create the giant international firm of Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) would go ahead with Touche Ross as the sole UK representative .
11 At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players .
12 The Portuguese hearing would go ahead on 18 October even though Ferrari had asked for it to be postponed , he said .
13 The Ferrari team were upset by FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre 's statement on Tuesday that an appeal against the $50,000 fine imposed on Mansell would go ahead on 18 October , despite their request that it be postponed because the Japanese Grand Prix is on 22 October .
14 In a statement , British Airways said it believed that the finance for the deal would be raised in the near future , but that its £320m fund raising issue would go ahead regardless .
15 They were also worried that the USA would go ahead and plan a postwar aviation policy before they could even begin one .
16 Members of the board then went to the organisation headquarters to reassure the staff — there are now 35 working on the project — that the Games would go ahead .
17 His name served as a seal of approval that a deal would go ahead and that it would be profitable .
18 In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel .
19 In the first example of his tenacity , he pointed out that there could be no guarantee that the government 's privatization plans would go ahead in their then current form and they might not happen at all .
20 Conn McCluskey of the CSJ held out strongly against defying the ban but the DHAC representatives made it clear that they would go ahead in any case , and this seems to have swayed the NICRA members .
21 So , in the following exercises try and throw all these preconceived ideas away , just as the impetuous child would go ahead and fool around in his own way .
22 Norwich City Council , which was involved in the European Court case , said last night the ruling ‘ vindicates the stance we have taken ’ and prosecutions would go ahead .
23 Douglas said , having got that far , they would go ahead .
24 Councillor Willie McCafferty said that a lot of hot air was being blown about the issue , and that they should n't hold a seminar until they were actually sure mining would go ahead , adding , ‘ A lot of people here will have their pockets well lined and I make no apologies for that ’ .
25 The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern .
26 Local residents who gathered at the site of the testing were assured by County Engineer Liam Mullins that nothing would go ahead until a full meeting of the County Council discussed the matter .
27 In the future , attempts to achieve a modicum of unity would go ahead regardless of the British position .
28 Before the vote , Lord Owen said bravely that rejection by the Bosnian Serb parliament of the plan that he and Cyrus Vance had drafted would be only ‘ a temporary setback ’ and that planning for the deployment of up to 75,000 peacekeepers would go ahead .
29 Bill Knowles , the general manager of the Ipswich Co-op — who has been involved in talks with the NCP — said he was confident the scheme would go ahead but the timing had to be right .
30 He maintained that the construction of the flood barriers ( based on the MOSE prototype : see The Art Newspaper , No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) would not be held up until the de-pollution programme was completed : plans and experimental work on the flood barriers would go ahead while the environmental problems were being dealt with and experimental work should be completed by the beginning of 1994 .
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