Example sentences of "they would [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 24 Jacques Poos and Roland Dumas , the Luxembourg and French Foreign Ministers respectively , declared , however , that they would contest the vote in the European Court of Justice . |
| 2 | Both companies expressed disappointment at Cheney 's decision and said that they would contest the cancellation . |
| 3 | Maybe they would want a girl for recreational purposes . |
| 4 | If Inchbad married Flame , it would be a very special occasion indeed ; it might be just the occasion when they would want a dish or two of roast Gnome and , more to the point , it would get the Gruagach out of paying for the new Crown Jewels . |
| 5 | If an insurance company were having to pay out , they would want a lot more information than we are being offered . |
| 6 | They would want a lot ; there is no reason that we should give them everything they ask for . |
| 7 | Specifically , he notes that lenders like banks have an interest in the firm 's undertaking projects that carry little risk of default even if the expected return is low , whilst if it is true that shareholders in general hold diversified portfolios , they would want the firm to go for high expected returns . |
| 8 | This wo n't tell you where they would make a mistake if they tried to spell it themselves ; so you need to add it to the collection of words from writing as in Method 1 . |
| 9 | Immediately they thought they would make a fortune if they were able to sell this food in shops . |
| 10 | Colin Parry , 37 , a personnel officer , wept as he said his 12-year-old son would never be the way he was but they wanted him to live and they would make a life for him . |
| 11 | Oh , they would make a show of looking — taking my belongings was , after all , theft — but would I really prosecute my … lover ? |
| 12 | Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply . |
| 13 | So when the market women sold their products , they would make a habit of slipping one of our leaflets into the bag of goods . |
| 14 | Rising levels of oxygen would benefit the slowly evolving vertebrates , with mutations involving stiffening through the growth of external coverings , which ordinarily would have been lethal since they would inhibit the diffusion of oxygen . |
| 15 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 16 | On a visit to the Stockton hospital , Mr Cook said if Labour won the election , they would end the hospital 's trust status which is due to begin on April 1 . |
| 17 | The family said if I could n't come they would change the date . ’ |
| 18 | While they waited , Jean popped into her local Midland Bank to ask if they would change the money when it finally arrived . |
| 19 | It was therefore greatly in the masters " interests to insist that there was " no point " in the women learning the later skills ( because they were not strong enough , because they would leave the trade early , because they would " never be as good as a man " and so on ) . |
| 20 | In 1955 , after months of agonizing , Dennis and Millie Jones finally made the momentous decision that they would leave the security of tiny Maesteg in Mid Glamorgan and head for a new life of the other side of the world . |
| 21 | Some of the refugees originally refused to touch East German territory again , but were reassured when two of the West German diplomats said they would accompany the train , to ensure that the rules were followed . |
| 22 | It is vital to avoid any repetition of the ‘ ozone scare ’ of the seventies when many aerosol products were banned through mistaken fears that they would deplete the earth 's protective ozone layer . |
| 23 | They would emphasise the involvement of trade unions at the place of work and the trade union movement as a whole at the national political level . |
| 24 | On Jan. 24 the Russian Federation government intervened with the announcement that it would increase the maximum amount for pensioners to Rbs500 , and several republics said that they would extend the deadline for exchanges . |
| 25 | City explained their case by reporting better crowds at evening games and the fact that they would ease the workload on club officials who would have double commitments on Saturdays . |
| 26 | Former nurse Joan Young , from Darlington , explains : ‘ Most children must have been told not to pick dandelions when they were younger or else they would wet the bed . |
| 27 | To demonstrate the size of such numbers , one is driven to make strange comparisons ; for instance , if we had a cube for each of the 4.325 X 10 19 patterns , they would form a stack about 260 light years long ; and a volume consisting of one cube for each of the 8.858 X 10 22 patterns with marked centres would be about three-quarters the volume of the Moon . |
| 28 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 29 | In Bosnia itself the Serbs said they would open an air link to the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica and halted an offensive that brought their forces within a mile of its outskirts . |
| 30 | Only six stated that they would offer a translation of the documents . |