Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would think something like that would stand out in her mind . ’ |
| 2 | " You would think anyone in that state would have been clever enough , sensible enough , to get out of line . " |
| 3 | She would fool anyone with that play of honesty , that — ’ his voice thickened , passion suddenly rife within it ‘ — that damned shining innocence . ’ |
| 4 | It was all good for the camouflage in any case , and she would need plenty of that with Felipe de Santis . |
| 5 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |
| 6 | This objective would need lots of other objectives en route to help you achieve it , e.g. |
| 7 | They also revealed a new generosity of spirit , deciding that , if they carried on playing thus , they would win everything with such ease that the various English competitors would lose their sparkle . |
| 8 | Without doing so we would know nothing at all . |
| 9 | The solicitor was strongly professionally oriented : he would regale one with legal anecdotes , the humour of which depended on a prior deferential attitude to barristers and judges ; he was strict in his interpretation of professional ethics . |
| 10 | I thought you might have become the sort of man who would do something like that . ’ |
| 11 | Sherry would do something like that because apparently she 's always walking down the streets and like taking her top off and showing her tits to everyone and sort of like pulling her trousers down . |
| 12 | ‘ Who would do something like this ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know why anyone would do something like this , ’ he said , ‘ but the stickers are proper , professional ones , not just scrawled writing over the posters . |
| 14 | ‘ some Poles hoped that although things were desperate , the West would do something after all . |
| 15 | No-one wanted personal computers until an American called Dan Bricklin invented a piece of software that would do lots of boring calculations in the blink of an eye . |
| 16 | Well , she would do none of that standing here in the street , she told herself firmly . |
| 17 | We have a single-minded policy for British industrial success , but the Opposition have a feeble-minded policy which would achieve nothing for British industry . |
| 18 | One of her children would achieve something in this world . |
| 19 | yes that it would e it would exclude none of those possibilities is how I would |
| 20 | He added : ‘ This is a real nobs ’ area of Abingdon — all doctors and bank managers and the last place you would expect something like this to be done . ’ |
| 21 | Looked at from the Overseas Groups point of view , the pattern would look something like this : |
| 22 | So if you were caught speeding at 90 miles an hour along the M4 in Wiltshire your fine would calculate something like this |
| 23 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 24 | I had n't heard it before , but I 'd already guessed that the tale would sound something like that . |
| 25 | However , it is extremely unlikely that the increase in the budget will equal the value of the grant : for it to do so would suggest that the recipient would spend everything on this good . |
| 26 | A modern account of sexual selection would run something like this . |
| 27 | As I see it , you have talked about the A sixty one er and the idea of having a western relief road would remove something like seven thousand vehicles from the existing A sixty one . |
| 28 | Yet , Lucille knew , he would remember none of those pacifist lessons if he saw Lord John . |
| 29 | ( Letterman likes my idea of using Maa and subtitles very much ; he was hoping I would suggest something like that . ) |
| 30 | Following on from the last administration , the Conservative proposals and that it would enable something like four hundred and fifty extra nursery places to be provided . |