Example sentences of "they [vb past] would [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The WLL gave priority to the new Labour Party 's Right to Work Bill , introduced into the House of Commons every year between 1906 and 1908 , which they believed would provide a charter of the ‘ Right to Leisure and Home Comfort ’ for working men 's wives . |
| 2 | Dentists , who only a week ago were awarded a pay rise of 8.5pc , reacted with fury to the proposed move which they claimed would mean an effective pay cut of 13.8pc and NHS treatment disappearing . |
| 3 | A rumour ran through their number that the carbon tetrachloride with which they worked would have the same effect as too intimate a connection with the servicemen on whose behalf they were working to supply the equipment . |
| 4 | British socialism , so alien to the American way of life , was to them only a short step away from communism , which they feared would engulf the whole of Europe . |
| 5 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 6 | The childless were also more concerned about items which they thought would set a bad example to children while nearly all parents were aware of the 9pm watershed for more adult programming . |
| 7 | LABOUR published six main amendments to the bill which they said would form the basis of the party 's ‘ winter campaign to save the NHS ’ , writes David Brindle . |
| 8 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 9 | In 1936 the property-owning classes had given their moral and financial support to a military rising which they hoped would halt the reforming process . |