Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we said we 'd build in local stone and blend in with the area . |
| 2 | erm I think it ca n't be bad for you because you do quite a lot of the same exercise as you 'd do in proper aerobics |
| 3 | I 'd read of automatic writing so in my grief I tried it , spending many hours holding a felt-tip pen over paper . |
| 4 | ‘ Given the choice I 'd go to borstal anyday . ’ |
| 5 | I 've got better odds than I 'd get at Russian roulette — twenty to one , at least . |
| 6 | This was good — this was the closest we 'd come to meaningful exchange . |
| 7 | In order to head off conflict with Ghana over the replacement , assurances were later given that Quainoo would remain as overall commander , with Dogonyaro in charge of field operations . |
| 8 | They signed a declaration which ( i ) stated that the CIS was open to all former Soviet states and any other countries which shared its objectives ; ( ii ) stated that strategic forces would remain under unified control ; ( iii ) confirmed co-operation on a single economic space ; and ( iv ) stated that member states of the CIS undertook to honour the international obligations of the former Soviet Union . |
| 9 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 10 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 11 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
| 12 | One eighteenth-century author , E. Smith , whose Complete Housewife , published in 1727 , was also the first cookery book to be printed in America , claimed that her Everlasting Syllabubs would remain in perfect condition for nine or ten days , although at their best after three or four . |
| 13 | All of us would arise in due course like Venus from the waves — shining , lovely , renewed , with sharp neat cuts , elegant waves or subtle highlights — or so we hoped ; it was an act of faith . |
| 14 | In a subsequent discussion on 23 March , MacArthur advocated an early peace conference despite the problems that would arise from Soviet obstruction . |
| 15 | Trade in goods would arise from broad specialization of the ‘ workshop of the world ’ type , for example exporting manufactures and importing primary goods . |
| 16 | This would range from total recovery to the maintenance of a vegetative status quo . |
| 17 | More sober advocates are content to imply that in Britain a Conservative constituency party would field a wet , a damp and a dry candidate , whilst Labour candidates would range from deep crimson to shell pink , and the Liberal Democrats would presumably run at least one ex-Liberal and one ex-SDP candidate . |
| 18 | It was suggested that " such units should be part of the psychiatric service and would compare with continuing care units ' of the geriatric service . " |
| 19 | Towards the end of our conversation he asked me what use I would make of documented evidence that the Japs in Burma had a far-reaching plan to destroy the Buddhist system of monasteries and monks . |
| 20 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 21 | General practices would evolve into American-style health maintenance organisations — a prospect perhaps more appealing to planners than to patients or general practitioners . |
| 22 | However , they do know that winning Group F might give them an easier game in the second round ( against the runners-up in Belgium 's group ) than they would earn by finishing second , when they would face the second-placed side in Argentina 's group . |
| 23 | However , they do know that winning Group F might give them an easier game in the second round ( against the runners-up in Belgium 's group ) than they would earn by finishing second , when they would face the second-placed side in Argentina 's group . |
| 24 | Not that they would , in any sense , agree to act as spies ; anything they discovered about his private life , they would treat with total discretion , he was sure of that . |
| 25 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 26 | In the same way people mute their criticisms of what others would regard as intolerable housing amenities . |
| 27 | Yet it is arguable that the child 's first experiments with what adults would regard as linguistic deceit are on a causal and behavioural par with the bird 's fraudulent warning cry . |
| 28 | Anything less would smack of pie-in-the-sky thinking . |
| 29 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 30 | When they arrived at Hamilton Terrace it was impossible to predict whether they would behave with irresistible charm or throw the chairs across the room . |