Example sentences of "they would [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Darlington Ramblers spokesman Alan Hutchinson , who accused the committee of favouring landowners in rights of way issues , said the suggested change at Cleatlam which would skirt fields rather than cross them would offer inferior views and be longer . |
2 | Darlington Ramblers spokesman Alan Hutchinson , who has accused the committee of favouring landowners in contentious rights of way issues , said the suggested change at Cleatlam skirting the fields rather than crossing them would offer inferior views and be longer . |
3 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |
4 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
5 | Criminalising them would cover trivial matters , such as neighbours quarrelling over a lawnmower . |
6 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
7 | So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it . |
8 | But a proposal to re-draw the tax-boundary line between them would win little favour in the rich suburbs . |
9 | Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone . |
10 | Only a handful of people know I own this house , and none of them would reveal that information to anyone . ’ |
11 | A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation . |
12 | The dog which the eleventh legion would have taken with them would need some herding instinct , be fleet of foot and be powerful enough to guard the herd against wolf or bear . |
13 | None of them would trust such men a yard . |
14 | If countries with dwindling elephant herds were allowed to sell a small quantity of ivory each year , they would earn foreign exchange , and thus have an incentive to conserve their herds . |
15 | They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later . |
16 | They would want more powers for local government , plus a Northern Ireland committee at Westminster , but the possibility of the SDLP or Dublin being diverted from the three-strand approach is remote . |
17 | This is the very last place where they would want some outsider installing himself and pursuing his researches . |
18 | They would make good sandrat material . |
19 | I know that local playgroups find them useful , certainly for skittles and as cone and ball games , but I though maybe if they were filled with some sort of plaster and decorated , they would make good door stops . |
20 | The ground dipped between two minor cliffs , and the architect must have figured they would make swell windbreaks . |
21 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
22 | I mean , I think , I had n't realized that they would make different decisions on medical grounds . |
23 | They would make more money that way . |
24 | We have to trust the districts can trust the county the county can trust the districts and that in practice they would make this work at local plan level . |
25 | On free afternoons they would choose quieter parts of the library and make towers , animals , castles , chairs and ski-slopes , all out of books . |
26 | Then they would head due north , bypassing Italian-held Jalo , to the rendezvous point in the Jebel mountains . |
27 | THE Football Association last night insisted they would block any moves to form an official British Super League or Cup . |
28 | Because the poorer elderly spent such a large proportion of their income on fuel , she added , they would face stark choices if the cost rose . |
29 | And they would face certain disaster if the treasury goes ahead with plans to cut 270 million pounds from it 's overseas aid budget . |
30 | Finnish Environment Minister , Kaj Barlund , said that sulphur deposits in the south of the country " surpass the level nature can bear by two or three times " and that unless action was taken they would face serious problems in the next 10-20 years . |