Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic structure of the countryside near the line-of-rail , linking the mines with ports via South Africa , was transformed to provide labour for the miners on temporary labour contracts in which the miner 's family would stay behind on the family farm . |
| 2 | That dress would hang better on a broomstick . ’ |
| 3 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 4 | It was assumed that she would do so on the arm of one of her sons , but they followed behind in a somewhat passive procession . |
| 5 | He looked down , and with a sort of fatal satisfaction realised that he would land right on the biggest wolf . |
| 6 | Unity Bank 's Terry Thomas , who represented another backer which it was hoped would look favourably on the project , the Labour Party-linked Co-operative Bank , turned them down flat . |
| 7 | The Department of Health said tests would begin today on the vaccines to make sure they met British standards . |
| 8 | At the time of the Smithsonian Agreement the Group of Ten — the leading central bankers — had announced that discussions would begin promptly on a new long-term monetary reform . |
| 9 | Then it seemed that the consummation would follow soon on the heels of its inauguration . |
| 10 | But it had established three important points : first , that there was potential to cut across established Green-Orange divisions in pursuing the interests of Derry ; second , that some educated young Catholics who were uninspired by the Nationalist Party would work enthusiastically on a campaign which challenged traditional sectarian prejudices ; and third , many people came to believe that a section , at least , of Derry Unionists was prepared to sacrifice the interests of the city to those of its party . |
| 11 | Those who were too shy or too inexperienced to pray on those occasions would meet together on a Saturday night to read , to pray and to prepare themselves for the following Sabbath day . |
| 12 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 13 | Conservative spokesmen have said that people should reduce their expectations of what government can do and that economic improvements would depend largely on the action of people themselves . |
| 14 | If the proposed partition led to fighting , the Arabs who were bereft of any coherent leadership ( the Mufti and other Palestinian leaders had been exiled since 1939 ) , would depend wholly on the armies of their Arab neighbours , of which Abdallah 's was not only unquestionably the best but also stood to capture most territory . |
| 15 | er the calls are totally confidential and it would depend entirely on the child as to really what happened , because er you ca n't say to a child ‘ right I 'm going to report this ’ , it does n't happen like that . |
| 16 | The degree and nature of any interaction between the proposal and existing research programmes would depend totally on the needs of each individual submission made to us by visiting researchers , and can not be foreseen at this stage . |
| 17 | The final agreement was that he would serve only on the Russian Front . |
| 18 | The Chancellor made clear that henceforth he would rely more on the narrower definition of money , Mo , and maintain a high exchange rate ( and high interest rates ) to dampen inflation . |
| 19 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 20 | Or even , when it was apparent that we were not going to get anywhere with the local government , the whole neighbourhood would get together on a Sunday to work putting in the drains or paving the streets . |
| 21 | She would play happily on the sand for hours as long as the tide was out but would run from the beach as soon as the sea came to within several yards of where she was sitting . |
| 22 | Er er I d I do n't think that we as a panel are necessarily going to ever and and and it may not be our role in fact to do so , to come to a judgement on it , but I would have thought as a matter of common sense , and common agreement , that there should be some er way in which the various parties would come together on the basic demographic statistics and would certainly accept that certain basic projections should be used i in looking forward . |
| 23 | If the weather improved it would start again on the following morning . |
| 24 | Later we would sit outside on the terrace reading and drinking cold beer by candlelight ; translucent green geckos would hoover up the mosquitoes from around the flames as we read . |
| 25 | These would bear heavily on the Publication Officer and consideration must therefore be given to increasing staffing of the Publication Officer 's ‘ office ’ . |
| 26 | What I have to say would bear essentially on the four works named , and would be grouped round three notions which I shall call language as rescue , language as screen , and language as replay . |