Example sentences of "would [verb] [coord] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , interest earned in this country by overseas nationals is subject to tax but , if a tax haven state was created in Britain , this liability would disappear and make such deposits more attractive . |
| 2 | After the talks Goh said that the Sultan had shown considerable interest in joining the FPDA , and that Singapore would welcome and support such a move . |
| 3 | In 1759 the French were known to be preparing an invasion of Scotland in which French forces would sail and rouse any remaining Stuart rebels . |
| 4 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 5 | For example , if he learnt that the patient was a Jehovah 's Witness , but had no evidence of a refusal to accept blood transfusions , he would avoid or postpone any blood transfusion so long as possible . |
| 6 | Although it is not a matter for me , I would hope and expect that Parliament would be similarly sensitive to the need to refrain from trespassing upon the province of the courts . |
| 7 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 8 | If we did take control of the Council I think we would try and decentralize much more than is being done at the moment . |
| 9 | Aside from the revelation of God there is no data which would encourage or allow any thinking person to develop a truly unselfish philosophy of life . |
| 10 | But set against this conditioned , non-autonomous female self are various images of a female self that would be authentic , that would transcend or shatter this conditioning . |
| 11 | The cars would pass and re-pass each other in a game of motorway weaving , the sons manoeuvring their powerful Mercedes around each other until the women eventually objected or they themselves tired of the sport . |
| 12 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 13 | There had been a snack-dispensing machine in the entrance to the stand , so she would go and buy some chocolate . |
| 14 | Oh I would go and see some friends of mine . |
| 15 | I would n't I would n't give them the option , I would go and ask those same ones you had in last week . |
| 16 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 17 | The construction of climatic protection would surely encourage entrepreneurs to invest in leisure and entertainment facilities that would be without equal in the British Isles and would rival or eclipse most facilities abroad . |
| 18 | An ‘ outside power ’ , whose objectivity could be equally trusted by all involved parties , would implement and supervise each Pact ’ . |
| 19 | Hause Point would settle and clarify all that . |
| 20 | Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons , often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her . |
| 21 | One suspects that the language of this definition would alarm and antagonize many teachers in the average British school staffroom ; no doubt this is unnecessary , but one welcomes the admirable simplicity of Derek Rowntree : |
| 22 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |