Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 2 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 3 | He was too tired for work but felt he must continue otherwise he would think back to Cranston 's words about Benedicta . |
| 4 | The Agriculture Departments should encourage the protection and rehabilitation ( thinning , regeneration or replanting , removal of aliens ) of existing on-farm broadleaved woods with grants which would cover up to 70% of scheme costs including fencing . |
| 5 | On the other hand , a price lower than this would hasten the decay of the falling firms , and slacken the growth of the rising firms ; and on the whole diminish production : and a rise or fall of price would affect in like manner though perhaps not in an equal degree those great joint-stock companies which often stagnate , but seldom die . |
| 6 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 7 | A finance director in a medium-sized company would earn up to £75,000 , an internal auditor up to £60,000 and a tax specialist up to £70,000 . |
| 8 | And from there he would rattle back to Wimbledon and his wife of twenty years . |
| 9 | The following for this kind of play would build up by word-of-mouth , he insisted . |
| 10 | I would stay on in Al Ain , making my own way to London in time for his return . |
| 11 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |
| 12 | There would be simply a walkout and the men would stay out until management either conceded to listen to one of their representatives and resolved the matter then and there . |
| 13 | Well Digital Equipment Corp always said it would catch up with IBM Corp , come what may , and the company has just about done it : IBM 's loss for 1991 was $2,827m and DEC 's loss for the year $2,780m . |
| 14 | He went on to reject the premise for such an ‘ iron law ’ , since he argued that production would catch up with demand as industry developed , and any disproportions arising would derive from faulty planning . |
| 15 | The consortium also disclosed that it would need up to £1.6bn in fresh finance on top of the £6bn already raised . |
| 16 | He was firmly convinced that it was only by consolidating working class effort to meet capitalist effort that they would win through to salvation … |
| 17 | Well , she would fall out of love with him . |
| 18 | First , we would expect over time that , for example , certain words would fall out of use and items related to these would appear relatively more difficult than those which use words still current . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Managers are saying if trade unions at local level are not prepared to sign agreements , management will not pay the Rolls-Royce additional severance payments and would fall back on state money . ’ |
| 20 | In the days before shops the local people would stock up with goods not available at the weekly market , while those wishing to sell were able to dispose of surplus goods and livestock since the guild monopoly of local trade was suspended for the duration of the fair , so all buying and selling became concentrated at the fairs . |
| 21 | It would bring in outside capital , mostly from corporate members , now barred . |
| 22 | On the other hand , when assets are economically independent , integration would bring in outside control which would dilute incentives in the division being controlled . |
| 23 | Not satisfied with the haul of birds that he would bring back to Britain , Gould began to consider collecting marsupials as well . |
| 24 | A year later , Tolstoy , another peasant-lover , would clear out of Moscow complaining of city life with its ‘ stench , stones , luxury , poverty , debauchery , . |
| 25 | I would refer back to Sir Peter Hall 's comment on Present Laughter here — for him the failure of that play is in direct proportion to its not being about homosexuals . |
| 26 | If they did lose sight of the coast , they would watch out for birds and clouds because they knew that birds flew near land and that clouds formed over land . |
| 27 | Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design . |
| 28 | It did n't worry him , because over a distance the soft-nosed rounds would break up on entry and be considerably more destructive , splattering meat in exactly the same way as a hard point carved into an illegal dum-dum . |
| 29 | He avoided travelling , and if he had to fly , he went only on charter flights , for fear that on a scheduled airline his name would show up on computers that could be tapped by Iran Air officials . |
| 30 | Jack Clarke knew that sooner or later the brothers would show up in London and , as soon as they did , his network of spies would ferret them out . |