Example sentences of "they would [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | This figure is far smaller than that which they would make under the terms of ‘ own resources ’ were they full members of the EEC . |
| 4 | Erm just difference they would make to the price . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The two parties announced that they would remain within the Rally of Democratic Forces . |
| 8 | Often they would change on the move . |
| 9 | Three or four of them , aha , with their ponies they would leave in the night and go over the hill . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Where they might differ , as I have already indicated , is on the meaning they would give to the concept of Religion . |
| 13 | I do n't know what they would do under the same circumstances . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | of music and what they would do at the weekend … |
| 17 | Two of the great houses in Jane Austen 's novels , Donwell and Northanger , have their origin in abbeys ; but they acquire no spiritual dimension in consequence , as they would do in the Victorian novel , where the proportion of great houses grown from abbeys must surely exceed the proportion of those that , like Fountains Hall , actually did so in fact . |
| 18 | Those who would like to be considered for the 1992 placement should send their curriculum vitae , together with a covering letter explaining why they feel they would benefit from the scheme , and enclosing samples of written work , to Chemistry in Britain at the RSC , Burlington House , Piccadilly , London W1V 0BN . |
| 19 | Tektronix sees a ready market among banking , financial services , insurance and utilities industries that have adopted an IBM-compatible Token Ring network : although these markets have not yet embraced X technology , Tek reckons they would benefit from the technology immensely . |
| 20 | When the Secretary of State made his recent announcement in the House of the second wave of trust applications and approved in principle applications for the four London teaching hospitals he said that , in the interim , until the review was completed , they would benefit from the advantages that could flow from greater local hospital management devolution . |
| 21 | Many felt they would benefit from the assistance of trained cancer counsellors , so work began on setting up the course . |
| 22 | They would disappear in the winter and re-emerge with the sunshine . |
| 23 | If a crew went to Southend on a Bank Holiday Monday , which was a traditional outing for London 's East End , they would arrive in the town by train and walk as a group to the seafront . |
| 24 | For a few minutes they would wander along the rails and then , suddenly , as though seized with panic , they would hasten back to the safety of the group they had left . |
| 25 | Because of the scale of the proposals , and because they would result in the excavation of large quantities of gravel , it has been agreed that the application would be dealt with by the two county councils . |
| 26 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 27 | They would start in the morning er I would say maybe eight o'clock , I du n no maybe sooner . |
| 28 | The party would continue into the wee small hours of oblivion , then pick up again on Saturday mornings when , after a breakfast of Anadin and hair-of-the-dog , they would return to the pub to begin again . |
| 29 | And although he had promised they would return to the seaside house , somehow they never had . |
| 30 | Once they had their lunch they would return to the seats and eat , when finished they were permitted to go outside to play . |