Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it does n't work they turn away , none the unhappier it would seem . |
| 2 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 3 | That 's caused a lot of resentment within certain sections of the country , especially amongst the rich who would stand to lose a great deal if Mobuto has his way . |
| 4 | Mother always liked this one for the dining room because she was afraid that the needles of the real one would get into the food . |
| 5 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 6 | If the worst came to the worst he would cut his numbers , take the orchestra straight over Karl 's sections and leave him standing . |
| 7 | The larger one would have been more convenient , but somehow it was imbued too strongly with Fen 's personality . |
| 8 | Not that he would come to her — his manner ever since her remarks about finding a rich man had indicated quite clearly that the sooner they could part company , the better it would suit him . |
| 9 | Henry of Huntingdon 's tale of fighting against the Slavs ( see above ) might also be relevant , and if Cnut did spend part of 1022 in the Baltic it would explain why the Chronicle C text records his return from Denmark in 1023 without , otherwise , having said that he had gone there . |
| 10 | From the latter he would have learnt that Earendel-references appear in several Germanic languages . |
| 11 | Now on F oh sorry on Monday the seventh er oh sorry on Friday the fourth I would like you to phone into this this er phone in to head office ask for Publications . |
| 12 | On his initial visit to the home of the bereaved he would feel that he had a very short ti me indeed to set out his wares and try and convince the family to buy the package . |
| 13 | Having forsaken the millions he would have made had he remained at LWT , Birt will at least want the prestige and power of the DG-ship . |
| 14 | The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love . |
| 15 | It was the nearest she would get to being a pearl . |
| 16 | ( That would mean that the first one would become ‘ the man U carling man u man u league ’ ) |
| 17 | The first I would label the ‘ naturalist ’ approach , and the classic British example is the highly influential work of Havelock Ellis , especially his majestic Studies in the Psychology of Sex . |
| 18 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 19 | There thus remained only one explanation consistent with logic and the sooner he tested its validity the calmer he would feel . |
| 20 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 21 | Entering the train was not so bad as entering the eastbound one would have been . |
| 22 | The finished one would act as a cupboard , full of clean dishes and utensils , which would also save on storage units . |
| 23 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 24 | So sometimes I wallop it in , sometime the the other one would stick his finger through the hole , and the riveter would be dying to be hitting it back he thought it was a drift you know . |
| 25 | If you had a down day the other one would say well okay I let's go let's go and |
| 26 | Of her forty-one Landseers , his group portrait ‘ Windsor Castle in modern times ’ and ‘ Isaac Van Amburgh and his animals ’ are the two I would pick for my imaginary show . |
| 27 | My preferance would be to play either Strachan and Rocky together with Speed in the Batty role , this would give him the opportunity to go forward if required plus utilise his good ball winning skills or if i had to choose between the two I would pick Rocky providing he was fit . |
| 28 | Then the pump to the UV which would feed this system was switched on and fingers and toes were crossed . |
| 29 | It is highly likely that there was no possible adjustment to the gold price in the 1960s which would have ensured an adequate flow of gold into the reserves of the USA and other countries . |
| 30 | Three-quarters of MPs receive between 20 and 50 letters a day , whereas in the 1960s they would have had this many in a week . |