Example sentences of "would [vb infin] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
| 2 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 3 | The Information memorandum will only be released after we have received a confidentiality agreement and we would stress at this stage the need for total confidentiality . |
| 4 | Most people would laugh at either suggestion as they hunt in their pocket or purse for a copper or two , ‘ just for luck ’ . |
| 5 | He would laugh at any suggestion that the photocells might point away from the light , with their wires departing on the side nearest the light . |
| 6 | Good dealers in shares and futures would laugh at this yardstick . |
| 7 | Donaldson described him as having ‘ a slight figure , with a strong constitution ( only once was he seen to wear an overcoat ) … frank and plain spoken , occasionally even to roughness … no flatterer … somewhat impulsive and gifted with great shrewdness and common sense … he was a man of the highest integrity and independence , and so far from leading his clients into needless of extravagant outlay , he would demur at any expense beyond his employer 's means … |
| 8 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 9 | ‘ The sense of outrage that some of those MPs would feel at such intrusiveness might help them to understand current feelings in certain sectors of education , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The difference between the two kinds of training is not as great as would appear at first sight because it turns out that task training has in common with skill training an emphasis on the perceptual side of human functioning . |
| 11 | Plugging in a 4-string bass the tone is generally tight , controlled and correct , much as you would expect at this price . |
| 12 | But then she remembered how they would look at each other , the tenderness in Con 's face as he gently held Una in his arms mirrored by the shining happiness in Una . |
| 13 | At some point that day , everyone would look at that noticeboard and they would all understand the implications behind what he had done . |
| 14 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 15 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | It was a nightmare from which he would awaken at any moment . |
| 17 | In general , however , we would stop at this point and accept as an explanation that he killed himself because he found his personal circumstances intolerable and sought to escape from them . |
| 18 | " Mr. James Christie intimated to the Meeting that he would move at next meeting that the Members get up a Flower and Vegetable Show sometime during this season . " |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , but you can imagine the problems that Gus would have at that time , and I could see why he would react like that . |
| 20 | He looked down at the child , surprised , as if the boy would vanish at any moment , leaving him holding nothing . |
| 21 | Indeed the first part of the book is by far the more revealing since his recent conquests are so much more celebrated than are the tales of his friendship form an early age with John Emburey , his innings of 87 at the age of 18 for the Ilford 1stXI against Trevor Bailey 's Westcliff and his early days with Essex when he would arrive at 2nd XI matches on a moped , his cricket bag strapped to his back . |
| 22 | Charles felt he would scream at another repetition of ‘ Not so fast , my proud beauty ! |
| 23 | But I wish they would aim at scrupulous accuracy regarding the facts and moderation in their comments . |
| 24 | Before I was hospitalised I would walk at breakneck pace for several hours each day , trying to convince myself and others that I was enjoying it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The offer would seem at first sight to be an extremely generous one , but those who make it know it can not be accepted . |
| 27 | It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category . |
| 28 | The intuitions most relevant to a study of meaning would seem at first sight to be intuitions about what things mean . |
| 29 | If you were an ant crawling around in G– , it would seem at each node as if you were on G. The only way to tell the difference is that in G , if you go far enough in the right direction , then you arrive back where you began ; whereas in G– , the only way to return to the start is by retracing your steps . |
| 30 | Every now and again , without a word , he would point at some object , a chair perhaps , or a sideboard or a marquetry table which had graced some Krishnapur drawing-room , and his henchmen would dart forward , seize it , and carry it away . |