Example sentences of "and we [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen to this from County NatWest : ‘ M & S is still a core holding long-term , but even quality has its price : The rating is too rich short-term and we would continue to take profits down to 300p . ’ |
| 2 | It is not an obvious answer to the brief and we would want to see what reaction this would get . |
| 3 | ‘ A few people told me it could n't be done but the prep races all fitted into his programme and we would hope to do something along similar lines next time . |
| 4 | We intend to arrive at the Radcliffe Infirmary at 10.30 am on Thursday 15 June and we would hope to complete the interview with you in approximately an hour . |
| 5 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 6 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |
| 7 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 8 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 9 | Handling the cheques over yesterday John said : ‘ It was great fun and we would love to have another go sometime in the future . ’ |
| 10 | In particular the post of Secretary has become vacant and we would love to hear from anyone who may be able to help out on a temporary or more regular basis … ( see page 23 ) . |
| 11 | and we would need to have national curriculum , name , date and so on which |
| 12 | ‘ It was a very nasty ordeal for this woman and we would wish to alert other women to it . ’ |
| 13 | Garden staff are often approached by visitors with requests for information , and we would wish to encourage them to continue to provide such a service , provided that this assistance does not interfere with their normal work . |
| 14 | We recognize that changes in attitude can be encouraged by good staff training , particularly in management and communication skills , and we would wish to encourage management to offer such training on as wide a basis as possible . |
| 15 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |
| 16 | Had he worried about the possibility of atomic warfare when he was attempting to split the atom , he would never have gone on ; and we would have lost the many benefits nuclear physics has given us , such as freely available power and treatment of disease . |
| 17 | Given similar external circumstances , we might well have reacted as they have done , and we would have lost our children . |
| 18 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 19 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 20 | ‘ Also , a development as large as the one proposed would generate a very substantial amount of traffic and we would have to examine in great detail the implications for roads in the area . |
| 21 | A minute or two later Pat said he could n't keep height for lack of power and we would have to ditch . |
| 22 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 23 | Now we we and the Conservatives in in the past have been in favour of a decision and a positive action and we would have seen it through . |
| 24 | So you see , in schools like that we would never go uniformed and we would have to discontinue visiting those schools as we would be jeopardizing the children and teachers . |
| 25 | We felt that really needed to be considerably punchier to attract attention and we would have thought that it really needed to be ‘ New Launch gets Canbord council market a tough new policy ’ . |
| 26 | And so if we could start from these unquestionable little bits of reality , and build everything out of this by pure logical construction , we would have shown that the world is coherent and logical , and we would have shown that ordinary beliefs erm were not open to doubt , were rational and certain . |
| 27 | Erm because when I was a little girl my brother and I we used to flowers because my mother sold flowers and we would have to deliver them . |
| 28 | It was a battle of weight versus cost , a battle which , to my husband 's dismay , I usually lost and we would have to pay over the odds to have my cases stowed in the hold of the Jumbo . |
| 29 | ‘ But incidents like this are pretty rare and we would have to look at whether we could justify expenditure . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’ |