Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some invitations would discreetly hint at the minimum subscription but the best Guest Teas never did . |
| 2 | T. Thistleton Dyer comments that it was once customary to inter a lamb beneath the church 's altar ; the kirkgrim or churchgrim , in the form of this lamb , would latterly appear in the pews to indicate a coming funeral . |
| 3 | They would mostly agree with the list of " helpful " features in Table 4.1 , on page 38 , and acknowledge that the confessional approach should not engage in those in the righthand column . |
| 4 | The terms of the agreement cannily provided that the American groups should each equip and run a manufacturing-cum-service facility — all on one site — but that the whole show would eventually pass to the Greek government . |
| 5 | By contrast , the only regular ‘ supporter ’ was Kitty Little , a long-standing pro-nuclear activist whose persistent promotion of the fast breeder reactor was matched only by her equally persistent belief that the British anti-nuclear campaign was part of an international plot incorporating the Rothschilds and President Carter and which would eventually lead to the imposition of an ‘ atheist Marxist-Leninist dictatorship ’ . |
| 6 | In terms of female users , this can be particularly tragic as in the following case , where the woman did not seek treatment because she assumed that this would eventually lead to the placing of a care order on her children : |
| 7 | Although the impact was perhaps less calamitous than in Scotland 's heavy industry , the blows dealt by the collapse of orders in the 1930s would eventually lead to the permanent eclipse of Edinburgh as a printing capital . |
| 8 | Marx believed that these and other contradictions would eventually lead to the downfall of the capitalist system . |
| 9 | Marx believed that the following aspects of capitalist society would eventually lead to the proletariat developing into a class for itself . |
| 10 | Some went to town on Bolivia 's planetary responsibility , warning that such barbarian customs would eventually lead to the flooding of New York and Miami and the extinction of the human race . |
| 11 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 12 | It is not disputed by the Legal Aid Board , and indeed it is obvious , that the existing practice is highly convenient and may avoid unnecessary costs being incurred which would eventually fall on the legal aid fund if it were necessary in every case to set in motion a procedure for filing of evidence . |
| 13 | When she left the desert , and the Sandrat knew she would eventually come to the end of the sand , the face would be waiting for her . |
| 14 | However , Hall ( 1982a ; 1982b ) hoped that higher-skilled and better-paid jobs would eventually Appear through the same processes that had driven countries such as Hong Kong , South Korea and Singapore from low-grade , low-paid economies into higher , if not always ‘ higher-tech ’ production . |
| 15 | It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War . |
| 16 | She would gladly pay for the additional units but these would cost only to be made available . |
| 17 | I would gladly talk about the ideas of the Carthaginians , if we only knew them . |
| 18 | He would rather died on the spot than endure that pain again . |
| 19 | But Franco was tougher than expected and the interview failed ; after it Hitler is supposed to have said he would rather go to the dentist than meet Franco again . |
| 20 | If you both wa if you both would rather go to the hospital you ca n't do that . |
| 21 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 22 | Secondly , the provision of subways and footbridges should be avoided where possible , for they are often ignored by pedestrians who would rather dodge through the cars than climb to bridge level or expose themselves to the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous environment of a subway . |
| 23 | She would rather stand outside the door all day long than face Mademoiselle when she looked like that . |
| 24 | You would rather stand in the rain any day than in a bus shelter . ’ |
| 25 | We value our privacy and would rather talk about the weather than enter into controversy or volunteer our innermost thoughts . |
| 26 | A MediaStar source says : ‘ There was no battle over who should take charge of a merged media operation , simply a decision by clients that they would rather continue with the same team . |
| 27 | A piece of pastureland adjoining had been given by the Laird , so dense was the population of the dead in that rank square ; but the people would not use it , they would rather return to the hallowed earth of the dead from whose collective and immortal life they had themselves briefly emerged … ‘ |
| 28 | He would rather fight in the open than wait to murder the other when he falls asleep , but is so much the weaker that to fight without an advantage would amount to suicide . |
| 29 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 30 | ‘ You could take any keeper in Britain — there 's not one we would rather have between the post tonight more than him . |