Example sentences of "would [vb infin] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners .
2 Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place .
3 This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on .
4 Over the weekend , when it still seemed possible that Baldwin would resign in the next few days , Sydney Arnold and Lees Smith advised MacDonald not to take office , on the grounds that a Labour Government would be bound to fail and that the party would then be ‘ overwhelmed ’ .
5 The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. .
6 Making the announcement , which follows two years of uncertainty about the zoo 's future , Dr Gipps said £2.5 million was already assured for the capital project which would begin in the next financial year .
7 Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 .
8 The chancellor of the exchequer , Norman Lamont , told sceptical businessmen at the annual Institute of Directors ' conference that the economy would recover in the second half of the year .
9 There had been intense speculation over whether or not Rawlings would compete in the first free presidential contest since his return to power in a military coup in December 1981 ( having previously chaired the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which had ruled Ghana from June to September 1979 — see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ) .
10 Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible !
11 The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel .
12 Company spokesman David Boole said the 200 jobs at Radford , Coventry , would go in the second quarter of 1993 .
13 Under an agreement signed in Havana on April 17 , 1990 , it was announced that the volume of Cuban-Soviet trade would increase in the next year by 8.7 per cent compared with 1989 , and would be worth up to 9,200 million roubles ( US$15,160 million ) .
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