Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Anglers are presently major users of the Derwent and would remain so even if the river were reinstated for use by power craft . ) |
| 2 | The overweight people would eat more rapidly than the slim people . |
| 3 | Stunned by the images of her own mind , all she could do was clench and unclench her fists , praying the numbing effect she had encouraged would disappear as quickly as Rune had implied . |
| 4 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 5 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 6 | The Copts would object very strongly if Owen were to invade the church ; but if Mahmoud did it they would riot . |
| 7 | I I the way I s I think I think was it Josephine he was married to , then then she would er she would object very strongly if he had a bath before they went to bed together . |
| 8 | I would doubt very much whether you having your hair cut would seriously damage your future together . |
| 9 | According to Andrew , Eleanor 's verdict was that a woman would act less wisely if she chose the less worthy one . |
| 10 | As many as possible would cluster at that end , and the stalls would thin out quickly as one went northwards away from the abbey towards the open country , with all its dangers for the peaceful trader . |
| 11 | You 'd think Michael Barnes , OBE , hereinafter referred to as Micky Twiceover would know just exactly when he opens his Festival since he 's the Artistic Director , General Administrator , Grand Panjandrum , ( Twiceover ) and what-have-you of the Grand Opera House . |
| 12 | Wickham said they would know soon enough because he had sent someone to ask Ayling . |
| 13 | It was thought that with strong , carefully chosen ministers , she would do well enough when the time came . |
| 14 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 15 | The caff now seems to have more customers than the railway , and would do better still if they cleared the tables . |
| 16 | Would do then Well if we go |
| 17 | ‘ It would have to be a very small stone , but I would do so gladly if it binds you to me . ’ |
| 18 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 19 | When Lothar himself crossed the Meuse , probably late in September , and announced that he would advance as far as the Seine , Charles 's support in Francia collapsed . |
| 20 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 21 | Some Tories even forecast that Mr Major would quit voluntarily rather than face the humiliation of a Tory leadership challenge . |
| 22 | Resources : The Ninth Five-Year Plan ( 1971–75 ) stipulated that light industry would grow more quickly than heavy industry ; nonetheless , the opposite took place . |
| 23 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 24 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 25 | In regard to smells resulting from the transportation of manure it seems to me that , irrespective of the methods employed , the necessary journeys would occur so infrequently as not to be unduly detrimental to the residential amenities which nearby residents in this rural community could reasonably be expected to enjoy . ’ |
| 26 | Oh well that 's really turning it round , is n't it ? erm My feeling is that it would work very well provided there was a , a safeguard , and that is that if you wanted to argue you could . |
| 27 | The use of the ‘ Fax Box and Jargon Box ’ is good and the general attempt to imitate the Windows desktop is a good idea but would work much better if less cluttered . |
| 28 | " I would work much harder if you came now and then so that I could tell you of my progress . " |
| 29 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 30 | While at the end of 1985 there were fears that the price of crude would drop as far as $15 , by the end of July 1986 a leading article in The Times reported that Brent crude stood at ‘ a paltry nine dollars a barrel ’ . |