Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's younger there but I 'd think that man would be around fifty now . |
| 2 | To hear her talk you 'd think that guy Midwinter was the right hand of God . ’ |
| 3 | That 's all we 'd need if sex was for the benefit of the species . |
| 4 | Well they did er they 'd dance and whist and did different things like that . |
| 5 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 6 | So sharing out two six shared out between four what you 'd normally write if you ca n't do fractions you 'd say once remainder two would n't you . |
| 7 | I 'd say that composition is the main starting point for all our work , because the nature of composition involves performance at the end , and of course the whole process involves various ways of listening … so composition is the crux of all our work here . |
| 8 | No , I 'd say that wife of his was as unsuitable a sick-nurse as you could find . ’ |
| 9 | I mean they 'll do nothing about sex , they 'll just do all about morals , wo n't they , and decent , respectable people I 'd say and biology 's just cold and clinical . |
| 10 | He 'd find that Way Out , but he would n't leave until he 'd found them again and sorted them out . |
| 11 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 12 | Anybody would think that life began in nineteen forty . |
| 13 | He suspected she would think that kitsch was something you ate in a wine bar . |
| 14 | This would arise where depreciation charges were less than principal repayments would have been . |
| 15 | To illustrate the combination of speculative and portfolio adjustment effects that are embodied in relative returns it is useful to analyse the changes that would arise if wealth and turnover are held constant and investors expect a rise of 1% in the relative return on UK investments in both the current and following quarters due to an expected exchange rate appreciation . |
| 16 | This ignores the substantial number of additional cases that would arise if screening became widespread . |
| 17 | Over very long distances , the signal in the system above would weaken and booster amplifiers ( called repeaters ) would be needed very so often along the line . |
| 18 | The formal extension would exist if Article 37 of the Treaty on European Union were ratified . |
| 19 | But are they the inevitable companions of hierarchy , or perhaps a product of the misuse of hierarchy that would disappear if hierarchy were properly understood and structured ? |
| 20 | The Government is believed to be reluctant to push rates any higher , but City analysts predicted it would act if pressure on sterling became too great to hold with intervention alone . |
| 21 | Accordingly , we would predict that communication failure must take place rather frequently in the classroom . |
| 22 | From all the discussion so far , one would predict that BSL as a language should be no more difficult to learn than a foreign language , except , that is , for the fact that BSL is not a high status language and its users are often treated as failures . |
| 23 | During a stormy meeting at the club , objectors claimed their house values would fall and greenfield views would be obliterated . |
| 24 | To discover what is ‘ in the mind ’ of human beings requires a different methodology from the natural sciences whose practitioners are interested in matter and would recognise that matter does not have a mind and is incapable of subjective experience . |
| 25 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 26 | However critics of Keynesian economics consider that labour markets would clear if government and institutional impediments to greater flexibility were removed . |
| 27 | If , as I suspect , Nicaragua faces serious economic problems , I would assume that part of the blame lies with the previous Nicaraguan government and that Chamorro may be faced with tough decisions needed to ensure that the ‘ empty stomachs ’ of the people are filled . |
| 28 | This would show that acid secretion is of superior importance compated with H pylori . |
| 29 | What I would do if school were at home |
| 30 | In spite of these small brushes , they spent a very happy leave , planning all that they would do when peace came , and making love passionately every night . |