Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 2 | On the one hand you could give it your best shot on the decriminalisation of homosexuality , on the liberalising of legislation in relation to condoms and on the introduction of divorce legislation — all of which in private you would acknowledge as being desirable if not essential . |
| 3 | ‘ If there was anywhere safe in England in 1943 you 'd have thought that was . ’ |
| 4 | it 'd pay to come in that they would steal |
| 5 | Leave the railways with British Rail , and put the money in that they would spend on privatization to improve the service for all of us , and keep it as a national railway , please . |
| 6 | It had n't sunk in that you would want me to go with you . ’ |
| 7 | I mean you came quite high in that I would imagine that 's something you quite enjoy doing . |
| 8 | Vic Furlong : ‘ He was always a bit of a dreamer in that I 'd give him a job to do , come back in about an hour and he was still chatting , the job unfinished , so he had to go . |
| 9 | The size of the new government 's legislative majority was also considered to be destabilizing in that it would encourage factionalism within the National Party . |
| 10 | The twelve-hour shift pattern was also an obstacle to change in that it would have made it difficult to recruit new staff for hospital development . |
| 11 | The 1967 White Paper ( Cmnd. 3301 ) on the Legal and Constitutional Implications of Membership of the EEC , stated that Parliament 's freedom of action would be limited in that it would have to refrain from passing legislation inconsistent with community law and would be under an obligation in certain instances to legislate to give effect to our community obligations . |
| 12 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 13 | In this they would follow the hugely popular and successful Italian Serie A league , where transfers are limited to the summer break between seasons and a short five-day ‘ window ’ in November . |
| 14 | In this I would admit to a personal bias toward flexibility and a lateral approach . |
| 15 | Even of that first ecstatic experience with Mohammed in 1895 he would write much later , ‘ Every time since then that I have sought after pleasure , it is the memory of that night I have pursued ’ ( If It Die , 283 ) . |
| 16 | Oswiu died on 15 February 670 , according to Bede ( HE IV , 5 ) , reckoning a reign of twenty-eight years ( HE 111 , 14 ) from an accession in 642 , but if Oswiu became king in 643 he would have died in 671 ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) . |
| 17 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 18 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at the committee stage of the Finance Bill or when Peter Lilley , the Social Security Secretary , makes his announcement uprating benefits in the autumn . |
| 19 | But he warned that if pensioners on income support and others in real need were not compensated in full he would vote against the VAT imposition at a later stage . |
| 20 | The 19 per cent who thought in 1987 he would make the best Prime Minister compares with 28 per cent today . |
| 21 | If the WGMS had been used in Britain in 1987 it would have been put to an exacting test in the South-East ( regarded in this context as one of the nine officially defined standard regions of England ) . |
| 22 | When Peter Adamson wrote the NI 's first editorial back in 1973 he would have found it hard to believe that things could get much worse in the field of trade — but they have . |
| 23 | If you acquired 100 shares back in 1973 you would have paid £145 . |
| 24 | It may happen that the indifference curve is tangent to the c 1 c 2 frontier at G ( the golden rule ) , but in general we would expect to find a situation such as P in Fig. 8–3 where ( as drawn ) . |
| 25 | The lives of articulate people can be more interesting than fiction , but in general they would bore viewers more than the new vogue of delving into every aspect of sexual behaviour in discussion programmes . |
| 26 | Well er in general I would say that erm and this goes back to my earlier discussion o of , of the pleasure principle . |
| 27 | It would indeed have defined a biological category of criminals , but as an explanation of crime in general it would have been virtually irrelevant . |
| 28 | In general it would seem that the now-extinct Alderney was fairly similar to today 's Guernsey but smaller ( in 1800 bulls stood at 119cm , cows 112cm and oxen 140cm ) and with short , ‘ crumpled ’ ( curled ) horns , fine bones , a long , thin neck and protruding , raised hips . |
| 29 | In general it would seem that keys a minor third apart have just the right degree of conflict , and are well suited to this technique . |
| 30 | So you always like conversation and in general you would like to speak . |