Example sentences of "would [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing his forthcoming retirement in 1988 , he had made it clear that he would remain on hand to step in if necessary . |
| 2 | The Beveridge Plan was to raise the level of insurance benefits from survival level to subsistence level and to protect adults against loss of income through a comprehensive system of social insurance benefits to which legal entitlement would arise on payment of the requisite contributions . |
| 3 | Each chapter would show the place of a particular form of policy response , or independent activity , in the scheme of things ; it would comment on experience to date and record new initiatives . |
| 4 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 5 | Mr Bull , 75 , said he would not have too much difficulty in finding the extra £15 a year to pay for the new road tax fees and would economise on petrol . |
| 6 | The British Polaris submarines would stay on patrol and the Trident programme would proceed . |
| 7 | There were , the wedding would come off right enough but the reception would linger on night after night |
| 8 | For a moment Lambert want rigid with horror as it looked as if the fire would fall on top of them ; but they drifted clear . |
| 9 | What used to happen was that rain would fall on land and permeate through the ground to the ground water levels , but urbanisation has meant more roads , houses , car parks and the water ca n't soak through , instead it goes into drains , is treated and then goes into the sea . |
| 10 | A legacy larger than Manning 's money belt , this show would stink on ice , ideologically , if you saw it today — and you can ; none of The Comedians have updated their acts since . |
| 11 | Later phases would concentrate on irrigation for agriculture . |
| 12 | I would concentrate on work . |
| 13 | They were to be a new form of secondary school — ‘ beacons of excellence ’ — funded mainly by industry , and would concentrate on science and technology . |
| 14 | UEFA also agreed to put back the forthcoming tie 24 hours after a request from the Blues who were concerned about the damage live TV would inflict on gate receipts . |
| 15 | The lawyers acting for the parents tried to present themselves as friends , representatives who would speak on behalf of the parents . |
| 16 | The two hours were almost up and , according to air-traffic control , the presidential plane would land on schedule . |
| 17 | Ace ducked , certain that Defries would land on top of her and then equally sure that nothing of the sort was about to happen . |
| 18 | We can say , too , that if there are large creatures in Loch Ness , then they would appear on sonar just as we have recorded them . |
| 19 | Craigavon Area Hospital suggested some of the information would encroach on nursing 's Code of Confidentiality , but details were given after seven weeks ; |
| 20 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 21 | My hunch that Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer would emerge on top proved to be bang on target . |
| 22 | But they would insist on parking on the footpath . |
| 23 | Before the Report was published teachers were prey to the wildest fantasies about its contents — we would insist on rote-learning , daily exercises in grammar , no more creative writing . |
| 24 | That 's right because you you 've an ability there to locate housing close to existing employment as well as erm leisure facilities and retail facilities and that would , in my view would follow on advice in P P G twelve and P , draft P P G thirteen . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Every second week I would spend on tour in the country travelling by landrover , bicycle or canoe . |
| 26 | Leave the railways with British Rail , and put the money in that they would spend on privatization to improve the service for all of us , and keep it as a national railway , please . |
| 27 | Maximum effort was expended by RAF ground crews to assure the carrier would sail on schedule . |
| 28 | However I run my boat as a charter boat and cater for a masochistic fringe who would sail on Christmas day if I were to let them . |
| 29 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 30 | In such a 28-day cycle , ovulation , the release from the ovary of an egg into the fallopian tube , would occur on day 14 , 14 days from the beginning of the next cycle . |