Example sentences of "they would [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When she arrived they would clamber in a body on top of the nursery table and standing there , hands on hearts , would chant to her — ; |
| 3 | If firms agree to set outputs or prices which give them higher profits than those they would earn in a one-shot NE , and one of them reneges on this agreement , then in the following period(s) punitive actions can be undertaken , for example a price war , to wipe out the gains from the deviation . |
| 4 | It is generally expected that the profits firms receive as a result of collusion exceed those they would earn in the one-shot NE , otherwise they might as well not collude . |
| 5 | This figure is far smaller than that which they would make under the terms of ‘ own resources ’ were they full members of the EEC . |
| 6 | Erm just difference they would make to the price . |
| 7 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |
| 8 | Greenpeace workers had begun packaging the 425 tonnes of waste , dumped in the Sibiu area of central Romania , for safe transport back to Germany and said they would remain at the site until the transport promised by German Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer arrived . |
| 9 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 10 | The two parties announced that they would remain within the Rally of Democratic Forces . |
| 11 | Often they would change on the move . |
| 12 | The fear among many Muslim Lebanese , who might otherwise favour the departure of the Syrians , is that they would leave behind a power vacuum to be filled by warlords on both sides of the confessional divide . |
| 13 | Three or four of them , aha , with their ponies they would leave in the night and go over the hill . |
| 14 | They would suffice for a respectable blaze . |
| 15 | It subjects experimental catalysts to the same conditions they would face in an industrial reactor , then to probing by FABMS . |
| 16 | What was surprising was the feeling that ‘ we ’ had to be involved with electronic media : otherwise they would stagnate into the old orthodoxies , the old ideologies . |
| 17 | Oh oh yes they yes they would stay under a road bridge too because you would see the er er if you would look a a bridge and they would say oh there 's a tramp there 's a place there if you could tell me and you would see the rocks put up and where the bed was always above water level oh yes . |
| 18 | They would stay for a few months and go back . |
| 19 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |
| 20 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 21 | Where they might differ , as I have already indicated , is on the meaning they would give to the concept of Religion . |
| 22 | I do n't know what they would do under the same circumstances . |
| 23 | Other women joined in saying , some in detail , what they would do to the German soldiers , and one woman , generally considered to be a part-time prostitute , boasted that she could see off any German . |
| 24 | Hereford United next and what they would do for a cup run … come to think of it what they would do for a win … on Saturday United lost out again in the third division … two-one at Cardiff City |
| 25 | Hereford United next and what they would do for a cup run … come to think of it what they would do for a win … on Saturday United lost out again in the third division … two-one at Cardiff City |
| 26 | And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem , and what they would do with the reward if they won it , that they did n't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage . |
| 27 | of music and what they would do at the weekend … |
| 28 | Asked how much of their weekly shopping they would do on a Sunday if all shops were open , they answered , on average , 12% . |
| 29 | He issued a passionate plea to Labour and the Conservatives to spell out what they would do in a hung Parliament . |
| 30 | and er , and as a result , you know , institutes , the wages in government bodies tend to be quite high , and because gov government bodies represent such a large proportion of er , non- agricultural employment they , they represent a much more sort of , a much more potent influence than they would do in a , in a developed country where the government sector is much , much smaller . |