Example sentences of "would [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 2 | If they work five days , there would , in theory , be a 20 per cent increase in periods worked , therefore on paper you would need a fifth fewer people . |
| 3 | From the time of the Falklands War , it was certain that the Tories would win the next general election , and that Mrs Thatcher would gain new stature as Prime Minister . |
| 4 | As question marks over Mr Major 's future grew at Westminster , Mr Heseltine said Mr Lamont 's speech would be forgotten very quickly and Mr Major would win the next general election . |
| 5 | In consultation with Associate Producer Mervyn Pinfield , who would direct the first four episodes , Whitaker won an agreement that everything should be done to portray the Sensorites as timid , sympathetic creatures , leaving true villainy to the beast present , if mostly dormant , in the hearts of men . |
| 6 | Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter on the sea breezes . |
| 7 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 8 | Our destination was to be Cliff College in the Peat District , where we would spend the next few days . |
| 9 | Recent palaeomagnetic results , suggesting that there are persistent preferred longitudinal paths for the virtual geomagnetic pole ( VGP ) during reversals , would provide the first direct evidence of the solid mantle 's influence on the core , although their statistical significance has been disputed . |
| 10 | In New York , television computer projections suggested Mr David Dinkins , a Democrat , would become the first black mayor of the city , beating the Republican , Mr Rudolph Giuliani . |
| 11 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |
| 12 | Now she was positive that if Stephen had anything to do with it , Danny Bascombe would become the next prime Minister . |
| 13 | So he said that he would take the next available flight to Turkey immediately after the EPC meeting . |
| 14 | For example , the following code sequence would invert the first 20 characters on line 0 starting a column 0 . |
| 15 | In any case , we would recommend the first two categories be combined to prevent the separation of landscape and nature conservation criteria . |
| 16 | The pain is severe and no predator would risk a second close encounter with these snakes . |
| 17 | A fourth Tory term would mean a fourth Tory recession as surely as night follows day . |
| 18 | Colonel Ford , worried that he was losing his veteran Captain of skirmishers , had begged d'Alembord to stay for the impending campaign and implicit in the Colonel 's plea was a promise that d'Alembord would receive the next vacant majority in the battalion . |
| 19 | the Group of 15 , on south-south co-operation within the Non-Aligned Movement , held a summit meeting in Caracas , Venezuela , on Nov. 27-29 , attended by , amongst others , the heads of government of India , Indonesia , Malaysia and Senegal ( which would host the next G-15 summit ) ; third world debt , and protectionism among industrialised countries , featured prominently in discussion , and it was envisaged that a G-15 position on the new international order would be announced early in 1992 . |
| 20 | He says : ‘ The initial expectation was that Eastern Europe would replay the last 30 years of telecommunications history in Western Europe , buying miles of copper cable and so on . |
| 21 | At 1989 prices , this would turn the first British PWR into a £2 billion project even before it had generated a single kilowatt of electricity . |
| 22 | Even if we rejected integrity and based our political activity only on fairness , justice , and procedural due process , we would find the first two virtues sometimes pulling in opposite directions . |