Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virgin , he said , were planning something which would effectively wipe out the manufacture of records , tapes and home hi-fis — direct cable music . |
| 2 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 3 | Recommendations were made that would eventually phase out the broad gauge . |
| 4 | Most observers agreed that the German side would eventually write off the Soviet debts . |
| 5 | It was a face a kindly youth would gladly help over a stile . |
| 6 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 7 | Mr Craxi thinks the new rules would penalise smaller parties such as his own ; hence the speculation that he would rather bring down the government than allow the referendums to happen . |
| 8 | ‘ The alternative proposal would only show up a handful of sites , not the 100,000 contaminated sites which we estimate exist in Britain . |
| 9 | She says according to Trina she says eh I , I , I did n't er , er , I wanted , knocked them back seven hundred thousand , but they would only , would only knock back a hundred and fifty |
| 10 | Even then , they would only put in a brief appearance in puddings and cakes at Thanksgiving and Christmas . |
| 11 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 12 | My mother … held all the conventional opinions a person was obliged to have , but then her unconscious personality would suddenly put in an appearance . |
| 13 | This would nicely round off a particularly satisfying day of sustained high level fell walking . |
| 14 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 15 | Julian then found by laying three equal sized tubes end to end , they would exactly fit along a double bar between two uprights and would not roll off because the bars were near and parallel to each other . |
| 16 | The threats against the Jews were no doubt correctly ‘ read ’ in government and Party circles as an indication that a war would somehow bring about a final show-down with the Jews . |
| 17 | Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size . |
| 18 | Nick and Peter were standing in front of the fridge arguing over whether a Muscadet or a white Burgundy would best bring out the flavour of the fish . |
| 19 | And the girl who begins rehearsing her Cinders role later this month , was more adamant than ever that she would sooner eke out a living in glass slippers than tennis shoes . |
| 20 | I would normally set up an area to the right of the input range but for ease of taking screen dumps I have here gone lower down — do not copy my example in a real database that is going to grow bigger ! |
| 21 | In one case an elderly man 's son who was his carer would deliberately pull out the catheter inserted by the nurse . |
| 22 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 23 | Once the tank is more mature I would gradually build up the stocking over several months aiming for shoals of fish , rather than odd pairs and trios . |
| 24 | The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians . |
| 25 | Why did she get the feeling that in any argument with Niall Grant , he would always come out the winner ? |
| 26 | While the tank was being prepared and the water standing , six large pieces of bogwood were being soaked in a dustbin to allow the tannic acid to leach out of the wood to a limited extent , as I intended that the wood would still leach out the acid and brown coloration into the aquarium water providing the fish with darkened water to swim around in . |
| 27 | They had not crushed the ashes in the hearth , the ink would still show up the names , if that sheriff had thought to look ! |
| 28 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 29 | All the police present were scathing of the legal system , saying that the stupid barrister was from [ name of legal firm ] , and would probably end up a judge . |
| 30 | If she should mention to Constance that someone had treated her shabbily and Constance referred the matter to her brothers , they would uncomplainingly track down the brute and teach him manners . |