Example sentences of "we would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all . |
| 2 | I was hoping we 'd avoid the political discussion , Betty . |
| 3 | We 'd marked every tyre , but sometimes we 'd fish the wrong one out ; then there 'd be some swearing . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd pay the going rate , and provide a car to enable you to get around to the various stores and liaise with curtain-makers and such . ’ |
| 5 | We decided to move the chairs out to make more room , but the acceptances kept coming in so we thought we 'd open the French windows and pray for a sunny day . ’ |
| 6 | And er we 'd get the princely sum of threepence of doing that . |
| 7 | So with summer holiday time coming up we thought we 'd help the late planners among you with a few ideas on great areas to go walking . |
| 8 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 9 | No what I 'm saying is we 'd have the right people if we pay more money , that 's the core of the problem |
| 10 | but we had one with eight so we 'd have we 'd have the whole thing there twice . |
| 11 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 12 | By doing that , we would eliminate the 12-month delay . |
| 13 | If the figures are more marginal then the Policyholder should be offered the possibility of a constructive total loss or the option of having the vessel repaired whereupon we would pay the insured value less the Policy Excess subject to proof being provided that the vessel has in fact been repaired . |
| 14 | At In Salah we would leave the north-easterly dog-leg , no longer with the wind in our faces , and join the trans-Sahara route from Algiers , along with tankers for Tamanrasset , and tourists for West Africa and beyond . |
| 15 | Despite the complex set of influences , we would emphasize the high rate of accumulation as the most fundamental factor behind the decline in profitability . |
| 16 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 17 | ‘ It would take up to two years to collect the information and in the meantime we would restore the old rates , ’ he said . |
| 18 | In fact , we have repeatedly said that we would retain the current Code of Practice on peaceful picketing which limits the number of pickets . |
| 19 | First , we would stress the immense size of the resource . |
| 20 | In long-run equilibrium , we would expect the real return on a firm 's investments to equal its cost of capital , i.e. r= p . |
| 21 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 22 | In such a situation we would expect the Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee to step in and examine the proposals . |
| 23 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |
| 24 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 25 | Even so , we would expect the resulting market valuation to pay some attention to the underlying assets since the reason for buying investment trust shares is to participate in the income and capital gains resulting from the managers ' investment performance . |
| 26 | If the restrictions are valid we would expect the generalized variance from the restricted and unrestricted models to be approximately the same . |
| 27 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 28 | We would expect the slow migration of hot-spot swells across continental interiors to have a significant impact on landscape development through , for instance , the disruption and diversion of drainage systems . |
| 29 | If this latter is important , then we would expect the big rape cases which get a lot of media coverage to be especially important in the formation of beliefs , since they are more likely to be common currency for discussion than the smaller cases . |
| 30 | I confirm that , when undertaking a review we would consider what the board has done , how it has done it and whether it had achieved its objectives and we would draw the appropriate conclusions . |