Example sentences of "they would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If countries with dwindling elephant herds were allowed to sell a small quantity of ivory each year , they would earn foreign exchange , and thus have an incentive to conserve their herds . |
| 2 | They would make good sandrat material . |
| 3 | I know that local playgroups find them useful , certainly for skittles and as cone and ball games , but I though maybe if they were filled with some sort of plaster and decorated , they would make good door stops . |
| 4 | The ground dipped between two minor cliffs , and the architect must have figured they would make swell windbreaks . |
| 5 | I mean , I think , I had n't realized that they would make different decisions on medical grounds . |
| 6 | Then they would head due north , bypassing Italian-held Jalo , to the rendezvous point in the Jebel mountains . |
| 7 | Because the poorer elderly spent such a large proportion of their income on fuel , she added , they would face stark choices if the cost rose . |
| 8 | And they would face certain disaster if the treasury goes ahead with plans to cut 270 million pounds from it 's overseas aid budget . |
| 9 | Finnish Environment Minister , Kaj Barlund , said that sulphur deposits in the south of the country " surpass the level nature can bear by two or three times " and that unless action was taken they would face serious problems in the next 10-20 years . |
| 10 | Like with the conditions at Holloway , I knew it would be no picnic , but I just did n't think they would treat human beings like that , anywhere . |
| 11 | Hypergames analysis explains why they do this even though both sides say they would prefer peaceful coexistence |
| 12 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 13 | And when people in our main survey were asked how they would like to repay a loan ( Appendix 1 , Tables 47a and 47b and comments on those tables ) , the great majority said they would prefer monthly repayments , or at least would not mind ; only one in five said they would prefer weekly repayments . |
| 14 | Indeed 35 per cent of people currently repaying on a weekly basis said that they would prefer monthly repayments ( against only nine per cent of those currently paying monthly who said that they would prefer weekly repayments ) . |
| 15 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 16 | Mostly , these were people in lower socio-economic groups ; but it is worth noting that even in these groups people with high credit commitments , or people who said that if they had to arrange a loan it would be for a relatively large sum of money , generally said they would prefer monthly repayments . |
| 17 | And when people in our main survey were asked how they would like to repay a loan ( Appendix 1 , Tables 47a and 47b and comments on those tables ) , the great majority said they would prefer monthly repayments , or at least would not mind ; only one in five said they would prefer weekly repayments . |
| 18 | Indeed 35 per cent of people currently repaying on a weekly basis said that they would prefer monthly repayments ( against only nine per cent of those currently paying monthly who said that they would prefer weekly repayments ) . |
| 19 | In addition , they would allocate local grants and manage local parks and libraries . |
| 20 | They would give equal rights and opportunities to all qualified Nigerians to participate in the political process in the run-up to when the military hands over to civilian rule in 1992 , the President said . |
| 21 | A meeting was arranged with the gypsies , who were allowed to stay until the 24th July , and it was agreed they would give substantial donations to the parish for damage caused to the trees and grass on the field . |
| 22 | As well as challenging the justification for piecemeal projects at a local level , especially where they would affect designated landscapes , we believe we need to develop a strategic overview of transport policy in Wales , questioning the present approach and proposing less environmentally damaging alternatives . |
| 23 | When they were wet from rain or swimming in the oceans , the light might catch on some deep oil in them and they would glimmer shadowy rainbows of colour , like oil spills on a road . |
| 24 | The urgency which mainstream critics applied to the task of denouncing A Very British Coup was no doubt fuelled by the fact that the film was screened as a three-week serial , hence reviewers were in the unusual position ( for TV critics ) of being able to influence readers as to whether they would watch future episodes . |
| 25 | It is doubtful , however , whether they would prevent attempted suicide . |
| 26 | They would return local government finance to the bad old days of domestic rates , with unrestrained power for local councils to charge householders as much as they like . |
| 27 | They would achieve great things together , Rosa swore to herself , she would help him bring about his vision of converting the army to the cause of justice and equality . |
| 28 | By strictly controlling the money supply they would restore sound finance and squeeze inflation out of the system . |
| 29 | They would sing Welsh songs together , she would take up the descant , he would make up verses with just a little edge to them . |
| 30 | But if they were then given a choice of several kinds of seeds they would show sudden switches in preference , even though the seeds were chemically much the same . |