Example sentences of "the [noun pl] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 2 | The activities would demand collaborative work , role allocation and sharing . |
| 3 | If so , Pyro has an action under the Act as personal injuries are covered by the Act ( s. 5(1) ) and none of the defences would appear to be relevant , unless Pyro is held to be contributorily negligent , when his damages would be reduced . |
| 4 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 5 | The argument was that crustal shortening within the continents would produce the same displacement of underlying layers , but the seas would be spread wider and therefore lower . |
| 6 | The introduction is lucid but many of the essays would have benefited from editing after translation . |
| 7 | Whatever values and viewpoints were embodied in the acts would have ultimately been those that were acceptable to the promoters . |
| 8 | Steven Spielberg 's dinosaurs are frightening enough … but none of the experts would have wanted to encounter a real-life sea dragon . |
| 9 | The experts would say that he had died from suboxia — oxygen deficiency brought about in this case , Wycliffe believed , by a virulent poison . |
| 10 | Chapman stuck to his policy of going only for top-class players , for he knew the crowds would come to watch stars like Clem Stephenson and Charles Wilson , and with Huddersfield 's limited supply of soccer enthusiasts it was essential to use every means to attract them . |
| 11 | Except at weekends in the summer when the crowds would come and spread themselves in an abundance of activity on the grass . |
| 12 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 13 | Milton , the provost believed , should write to the collector of customs to have him tell the threatened tide waiter that he was in no danger , and at the same time secure an order for Main to cross to West Lothian for a few days , around the time of the burgh elections , in order to get him out of the way , for the election of the deacon of the wrights would turn on this single vote . |
| 14 | After that , the solicitors would take over . |
| 15 | I could beat him on my bicycle ; if it was daytime the asscarts would overtake us , she thought . |
| 16 | The Black Land had never condemned men or women who loved their own kind , or those who crossed the frontiers between loving those of the same and the opposite sex ; but minorities formed fraternities , and members of the clubs would do each other good turns when they could . |
| 17 | The clubs would join forces for trips to venues such as the Lake District and incorporate both fell walking and rambling into the agenda . |
| 18 | This is simply that the accounts would record , as an expense , an item which is only supported by the issue of an order . |
| 19 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 20 | As the barriers fell , the institutions would move on , with the consent of all participants , to a further list of commitments . |
| 21 | The flames would flicker on the glass of the brass-framed pictures , enlivening the theatrical characters , making everything cosy . |
| 22 | In many another house , the flames would have spread along the top story , but not here . |
| 23 | The mines would create havoc in built-up areas . |
| 24 | If these conditions prevailed in a public company , the shareholders would sack the board of directors out of hand , while in a private company , bankruptcy would soon occur . |
| 25 | It is true that the shareholders would make an impact if they were to agree to vote in the same way , but this will usually involve the costs of educating and obtaining the co-operation of other shareholders being borne by individual activist members , and these are likely to outweigh the benefits that will be captured by them , since any increase in the value of the company attributable to intervention will be distributed among the shareholders as a whole . |
| 26 | Had PW qualified the accounts , it believed , the shareholders would have withdrawn their support and BCCI would have collapsed . |
| 27 | It seemed a good idea at the time , and it was agreed that all the shareholders would get an instrument of any description . |
| 28 | The discussions would move languidly enough , the parties being so young , and there was time to extricate either of them , or both , at whatever stage he found it desirable . |
| 29 | No one thought the patterns would work . |
| 30 | ‘ If you had n't put the chain on the gate , the signs would have stopped the human , ’ said Nisodemus . |