Example sentences of "that would [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1915 Harry Weiss of Metro Picture Services urged the trade to accept ‘ Quality ’ as its watchword but what quality meant for the film industry in questions of both architecture and film-making was standards that would bring in the respectable without prejudicing the masses . |
| 2 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 3 | But now Waimea had become as shifty and treacherous as Sunset , a churning vortex that would suck in the over-audacious . |
| 4 | The crystal chandelier was for effect only — lighting that would show off the clothes to their best advantage was brilliant yet discreet , and along one wall were racks holding some of the ready-to-wear garments . |
| 5 | When choosing the frame for this design I looked for something that would show off the dark red colours of the flowers and also be fairly plain , so as to balance the rather busy design . |
| 6 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 7 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 8 | Lawton was struggling to get out of his pack the receiver that would pick up the radio signals from the miniature transceiver Forster said was attached to his slayer . |
| 9 | She wanted him to hold her properly , to put his arms around her in an embrace that would shut out the world ; she needed to feel the hot , demanding pressure of his lips on hers in a kiss that would take away the nagging ache of uncertainty . |
| 10 | Seized for a moment by the power of prophesy , Caledor spoke words that would ring down the ages . |