Example sentences of "would [vb infin] so [subord] " in BNC.

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1 He still insisted that he alone was responsible to the French people for the actions of his government and would remain so until general elections could be held .
2 I would think so as I would have think so .
3 I would think so , yes I think , I would think so because the bedroom suite , the bed upstairs er of that er suite is quite a good quality bed , you know , it 's only a spring mattress of course it 's not a , it 's not a box thing like we 'd have today , I mean , what we have in our other room , I 've always intended to change it , but never got round to it , but it er just had a spring mattress , but it was good quality of its time
4 In fact all ordinary telescopes would do so but for the addition of an extra lens-system to turn the image the right way up again .
5 As a result , the body would not normally receive light during the critical period , but it would do so if the patient stayed awake all night or got up early .
6 He admitted that with prevailing high interest rates he was not particularly keen to mount a management bid , but would do so if it was the only way to safeguard shareholder value .
7 The Business as now carried on does not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of any other person ( or would do so if the same were valid ) .
8 They would do so because they receive convergent input from cells at the lower levels of the system that represent the defining properties of that object .
9 Despite this stance and the pressure from the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd to respond positively to de Klerk 's announcement , however , EC Foreign Ministers decided in Brussels on Feb. 4 not to ease sanctions until " legislative action was taken " in South Africa , apparently meaning that they would do so as soon as the legislation was tabled .
10 Unfortunately he had n't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained , and would do so until he left the force .
11 The partnership would capitalise Newco sufficiently to meet the redemption obligations on the debentures and , if Newco became the beneficial owner of more than 25% of the ordinary share capital of Target , prima facie s135 TCGA 1992 would apply so as to preclude a disposal on the exchange of Target shares for Newco debentures , though it would be advisable to obtain from the Inland Revenue advance clearance for this sort of structure under s138 .
12 The intensity of Comfort 's concentration was almost palpable and Julia lay as still as she could and breathed as carefully as her sodden lungs would allow so as not to disturb her .
13 It would seem so after we received a phone call from a North Wales resident who was bringing some American pals over to our fair city to sample some entertaining nights out in Liverpool .
14 There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care .
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