Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would think her maternal instinct outraged at the extraction of her child ? |
| 2 | Baxter found that a sow would cover her 30 kilometres inside a pen five metres square , and that several sows would happily farrow down together within such a small space . |
| 3 | They consider that the new settlement should should n't be within the wi within areas which would affect their future workings . |
| 4 | It said the extra charge , to be taken as exceptional , would lower its full-year profit due in May by about £25m . |
| 5 | The male red-winged blackbird attempts to attract as many females like this one , as possible to nest in his territory and , although the female would prefer his sole attention , she will share him with several other females if the territory is good enough . |
| 6 | Unions might favour single-employer bargaining as a deliberate strategy since it would enhance their relative bargaining power in terms of a potential ability to whipsaw individual employers . |
| 7 | The road , which is an important link in Rome 's traffic system , was constructed on orders of Mussolini in 1931–32 in the hope that this highway through the remains of classical Rome would enhance his fascist regime with echoes of Imperial grandeur . |
| 8 | The delegates voted on Sept. 5 against an Egyptian proposal to merge the organization with the UNCTAD " Group of 77 " ( developing countries ) , on the grounds that this would weaken its non-aligned status . |
| 9 | Throughout the coalition , Law was prepared to support its continuation , but he was rarely prepared to argue for concession that would weaken his own party . |
| 10 | Certainly no one set any store by when they said they would conduct their final funeral rites . |
| 11 | On March 14 Buyoya rejected the idea of a multiparty system on the grounds that each tribe would want its own party . |
| 12 | We knew Souness would want his own set of players and that he 'd shift people in and out very quickly just as he had in Scotland . |
| 13 | I would make myself some tea , I decided as I packed away my papers , then walk over to the post office to make my call to Crispin . |
| 14 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
| 15 | She supposed she 'd take over that duty , which possibly would make her unpopular back in the lab . |
| 16 | Perhaps a little money would make her festive season easier to endure . |
| 17 | At the same time , separatist politicsans were predicting that ETA would make its first action a kidnapping rather than a shooting or bombing . |
| 18 | Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing . |
| 19 | The government called a session of the National Security Council ( NSC , comprising the four heads of the armed forces and police , the President , the President of the Senate , the President of the Supreme Court , and the Comptroller-General ) , which met on March 27 and agreed that each branch of the armed forces would make its own report public . |
| 20 | In 1976 the government argued that , although it would set the ‘ broad lines of transport policies ’ , local communities would make their own decisions within the context of the national policy . |
| 21 | It was agreed that the buyers would make their own arrangement for storage thereafter . |
| 22 | Under the BG plan , the present central purchasing arrangements would be disbanded and the subsidiaries would make their own arrangements to buy supplies from North Sea producers . |
| 23 | I was no longer ill-digested curry , but a human being , whose imminent launch into a difficult , hostile world , would make my poor mother , labouring in the steamy heat of Calcutta , scream with agony . |
| 24 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 25 | Even so , as Arnold Freeman argued in Boy Life and Labour ( 1914 ) if it were not for the admittedly frail system of compulsory schooling , ‘ we should be manufacturing a race of hooligans who would make our existing civilisation an impossibility ’ . |
| 26 | But manager Graeme Souness lifted the Anfield gloom by pledging John Barnes would make his first appearance in almost six months during tonight 's televised clash with QPR . |
| 27 | Mario Andretti , who won the 1978 world championship with the 79 , boasted that the new car , the 80 , would make his former charge look like a double-decker bus . |
| 28 | Had she judged the precise moment when he would make his chilling discovery ? |
| 29 | Padded to the eyebrows and looking like the Michelin Man , he would make his tentative way to the crease , usually at number 11 , and woe-betide the visiting fielder who held on to a catch put up by him or the bowler who failed to stifle an lbw appeal at birth . |
| 30 | This time he would make his own choice . ’ |