Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [det] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd say half an hour . |
| 2 | And yet in 1953 another keenly awaited publication lit a fuse which eventually would explode many an illusion of carefully tended domestic bliss . |
| 3 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 4 | And I would welcome such an inspection and report . |
| 5 | The residents ' associations were not the type of organization that would welcome such an alliance . |
| 6 | But it is unlikely that Althusser would welcome such an option because , as we saw , he is anxious to reject this very distinction . |
| 7 | And , as usual , I would swear such an oath . |
| 8 | At a number of North-Eastern stations a porter would spend half an hour every Saturday or Sunday releasing pigeons from individual baskets , according to the instructions on the label . |
| 9 | Yet , surely I would remember such an apparition ? |
| 10 | Wages did not rise in proportion , and by the Spring of 1795 there was the extensive distress and threat of mass starvation which led , in May , to the infamous meeting of the magistrates at Speenhamland in Berkshire , an event which would have such an impact on poor-law provision for the next few decades . |
| 11 | It sets out to achieve its objective of protection by promoting the kind of policies and practices which it believes would enable the rural environment to be utilised and developed for the good of society without destroying aesthetic and spiritual beauty , and by opposing other policies and practices which in its view would have such an effect . |
| 12 | That law would permit such an authority to rely upon presumed injury to its reputation because the defendant , who had accomplished a statement reflecting upon the reputation of the local authority , would have to prove the truth if he sought to justify the publication ; and , if he had commented adversely upon the conduct of the council , he would have to prove the substantial truth of the facts upon which the comment was based . |
| 13 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 14 | ‘ I went on down the corridor to see my grandfather , wondering what it was that would take half an hour . |
| 15 | He said a skilled and ethical therapist would resist such an advance , knowing the harm it might cause the patient . |
| 16 | But' , he added , ‘ only a Left Government in this country would enter such an alliance with Russia … . ’ |
| 17 | It is difficult to believe that a religion so strongly anti-idolatory would allow such an image to exist in the holiest of shrines . |
| 18 | The Wolvercote Tongue was insured for half a million dollars , and one of the safest ways of transferring it over to England had got to be on the person of the traveller : few people would entrust such an item to letter-post or parcel-post or courier-service ; and even if they did , the insurance-risk premium would be prohibitive . |
| 19 | The husband Malcolm Humble fixed the appointment for his day off , imagining it would last half an hour . |
| 20 | I tried again and again to explain that an electric cooker needed a more powerful circuit than other equipment , but no-one would accept such an idea . |
| 21 | If I were to write of Milton Friedman : ‘ the absence of self-consciousness and the resulting presence of an egocentrically unified perspective seem to be associated with an inability to shift perspective in concept formation problems ’ , I do not suppose that many psychologists would accept such an application of the language of psychology . |
| 22 | He had n't realised pregnancy was such a dislocating experience , or even that getting married itself would cause such an upheaval . |