Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If any reporters were to be poached from other papers , they would mostly need to give three months ' notice . |
| 2 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 3 | Pakistan and the United States would eventually have to accept direct talks with the PDPA , he said , adding that neither country had so far implemented any peace process . |
| 4 | I too would gladly have exercised these master-skills , but there was one essential ingredient I lacked : Charlie 's strong will and his massively forceful desire to possess whatever it was that took his fancy . |
| 5 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 6 | Indeed , in most cases for most injuries , anybody would say " I would rather have avoided this injury than have any amount of money whatever in compensation " . |
| 7 | Mariot capped this by suggesting that , since the Earl Patrick would presumably intend to yield that castle should Berwick town fall to King Edward , he could expect a greater reward from that monarch if the castle was nominally his own , not just a crown possession . |
| 8 | Before that , however , periods of extension during the Permian and Mesozoic would presumably have rendered this sealing mechanism inoperative . |
| 9 | The communiqué added that consumers in the industrialized countries should not be protected from rising oil prices through higher wages as this " would only serve to fuel inflationary pressures " . |
| 10 | One would only wish to receive this kind of evidence with caution , hesitating to draw stereotypical impressions of the children of engineers and actors , and impressions gathered some decades ago , aware as we are that social behaviour and social attitudes change with the passing of time . |
| 11 | ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent . |
| 12 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 13 | It seemed to Marie that people would only have to take one look at her to see that she did n't belong in these surroundings . |
| 14 | Ellwood reasoned that the women would only have felt curious if Annie was driving on the mirror : clearly , she was n't . |
| 15 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 16 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 17 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ I am receiving treatment at the Lister Hospital in London and any women who would be willing to donate eggs would only have to make two trips down there . |
| 19 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 20 | It would only have needed one postponement at the school 's shale pitch to have wrecked Errol 's big opportunity ! |
| 21 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 22 | If I liked it , I could re-apply for the one-year programme , and if I did n't , I would only have wasted five months . |
| 23 | Eighteen months ago , says business logistics director Alex Shepherd , the company would only have considered big names like IBM and Hewlett Packard . |
| 24 | The SRU committee would obviously have to discuss such a suggestion . ’ |
| 25 | I would personally like to see more erm sort of grading of erm more , more higher standards being set by the sort of head offices of people who own things like chains of motorway service areas , not catering for the lowest common denominator , but aiming to really have an absolutely top quality service , cleanliness , everything , in all parts of their business . |
| 26 | They would not proscribe the teaching of fine art , archaeology or music — but would much prefer to see British colleges turning out many more vocation-ally-trained graduates in science , technology and business management . |
| 27 | I always said to them I would much prefer to supply fifty per cent of the monthly usage , spread it out throughout the year . |
| 28 | Mars , by contrast , being so much further away from the Sun , is very cold : the water vapour produced by its early volcanoes would swiftly have frozen solid , leaving a thin atmosphere composed largely of carbon dioxide . |
| 29 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 30 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |