Example sentences of "they would [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’
2 The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home .
3 ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’
4 If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special .
5 And I in I invite I suppose the County Council really to respond to this issue of how they would intend erm indeed the districts , how they would intend to use these criteria certainly in a more rational and erm intellectually rigorous way than the sort of erm statements that were included in their January nineteen ninety two report .
6 They were the first to say that they would prefer to trust all this to people who knew something about education .
7 They would hope to discuss this with any new owner and with Scottish Natural Heritage .
8 But in the final weeks of preparation Steve , and his co-driver Graham Robbins , from Staindrop , realised they would struggle to raise enough sponsorship .
9 In July , when Nationalists protested at the failure of the corporation to appoint Nationalists to committee chairs , the mayor pointed out that fifteen or sixteen years ago the Nationalists had said that they would refuse to take such chairs and that they would only take part in corporation affairs in order to disrupt them .
10 The majority of the responses indicated that they would like to receive these digests on a quarterly basis .
11 The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . .
12 In evidence to us , the Finance Houses Association and Consumer Credit Trade Association both said they would like to see more use of credit insurance here ; the Birmingham Money Advice Centre suggested that it should even be compulsory above a certain level of commitment , say £100 .
13 I think , I think a shop , if you look at from the shop 's point of view erm I think it is quite understandable and natural that they would , they would either like a receipt or at least they would like to see some evi
14 Though first they would like to use those chains .
15 72 per cent of the women said they would like to consume less sugar
16 We are also asking British museums whether they would like to host more exhibitions of Italian art and whether they would like to send more exhibitions of British art to Italy .
17 Well I think they would like to feel that , you know , when we say right erm
18 We are also asking British museums whether they would like to host more exhibitions of Italian art and whether they would like to send more exhibitions of British art to Italy .
19 I do n't think they even thought they would need to do any other sizes and they did n't proportion them so that you could interpolate .
20 On the issue that the Secretary of State has just discussed with the defence spokesman of the Ulster Unionist party , the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) , while holding that it should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised Government to take out of circulation those who are seeking to destroy , murder and maim , will he give a full assurance to the House that he will undertake that act , if he has to do so , as a British Minister responsible to this House , and not in cliques with the Dublin Government who say that they would need to approve such a move ?
21 Twenty-eight percent were putting off-farm income into the farm at the time of the interview whilst a further 28% said they would consider doing this in the future .
22 Normally , they would seek to make that up by selling some of their huge holdings of securities .
23 But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected .
24 They would have to disclose all memoranda , manuscripts and correspondence relating to the transaction , and it seemed to me almost inconceivable that this disclosure could enable the culprit still to be concealed from exposure .
25 At this stage the society acknowledged they would have to undertake any work themselves .
26 If the judges in Elmer 's case had been strict conventionalists they would have decided that case in two stages .
27 But they would have said that anyway .
28 Fifty years ago they would have said this trip was impossible ; crouching on beaches , men in their teens and early twenties had believed they would never see another dawn .
29 ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’
30 For if species identification was the function of the stripes they would have diverged much more in the three cases .
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