Example sentences of "would [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expressed particular concern that the President would remain Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces , albeit nominally . |
| 2 | On Oct. 26 the national conference elected Amadou Cheffou as Prime Minister for a 15-month transitional period ( Nov. 1 , 1991-Jan. 31 , 1993 ) ; on Oct. 11 the conference had confirmed that President Ali Saibou would remain head of state during the transition . |
| 3 | Pilger himself would remain editor in chief as agreed . |
| 4 | Sir Denys Henderson would remain chairman of the two groups . |
| 5 | Once they were back on the train there was yet more waving of handkerchiefs from pin-hatted ladies who would remain spinsters for the rest of their lives . |
| 6 | Even however , if the hereditary element were thus removed , there would remain controversy about the basis of selection for the rest . |
| 7 | Mr Gillespie would remain vice-chairman until his 65th birthday and be a director to the age of 75 . |
| 8 | The sensitive nature of the case was further inflamed by the woman 's near-complete recovery — after an initial medical prognosis had suggested that she would remain brain-damaged for life — a development which led some members of the black community , including Rev. Sharpton , to suggest that aspects of the attack had been fabricated . |
| 9 | It was not clear whether Mmusi would remain secretary-general of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party . |
| 10 | The world would remain unshaken over this but maybe the constable would have a gentle word with the unthinking reverser . |
| 11 | At a federal congress on May 28-31 in Bremen 97.4 per cent of delegates voted in favour of the election of Björn Engholm , 51 , as chair of the SPD in place of Hans-Jochen Vogel , 65 , who was retiring after four years ( but would remain chair of the SPD faction in the Bundestag . |
| 12 | Later , ashamed , Two-Dogs would picket screenings of the films he had appeared in , although he admitted in private that many times as a young man he had eaten well at a movie commissary when he would otherwise have starved . |
| 13 | Labour would throw money at industry . |
| 14 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you suggesting that Barney made up his mind to kill Angy and cold-bloodedly chose a method that would throw suspicion on someone else ? |
| 16 | ‘ I really just wanted to see somebody who had done some heinous crimes and find out if there was anything different about him that would throw light on demon possession , that type of thing , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 18 | He realized that the structure of each species — and especially the development of the embryo — would throw light on the relationship of one form to another . |
| 19 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 20 | Studi 's pack of baying , war-painted Hurons are the kind of scalping psychotics who would think Dances With Wolves is a big girl 's blouse . |
| 21 | most were set by several … [ and ] although one compositor might set a whole book , he would not normally be working on that book alone but would intersperse work on other jobs when it was called for … |
| 22 | At 9am the small shop would open , Ann would serve at the counter , and Thomas would deliver loaves to their immediate neighbours on foot . |
| 23 | She would deliver Arfur at eight fifty a.m. ’ magnificent in a black coat , black ankle-length dress and black leather boots , and reappear at three fifteen , leaning against the climbing frame in the same ensemble , garnished with a scarf or a single piece of jewellery . |
| 24 | Priority was to be given to walking , not only because it was felt that this would give disproportionate environmental benefits and would aid access to public transport , but it would recognise the dominance of local movement by foot transport . |
| 25 | He would paint flames ; and she would paint fire in a brazier . |
| 26 | This particularly infuriated Dermot , the pack leader , and sometimes he would knock Patsy about so badly that finally his father told him off , not for hitting the little boy , but because Patsy 's subsequent sobs kept Patrick Milligan senior from his sleep . |
| 27 | IN MY book , young Fred Savage of TV 's The Wonder Years would knock spots of Macaulay Culkin . |
| 28 | Under the government 's proposal a blanket amnesty , not dependent on prior confession of wrongdoing , would cover members of the security forces and police officers as well as political prisoners . |
| 29 | The compensation demanded would cover claims by Virgin that it lost revenue from passengers ‘ poached ’ by BA after gaining access to its computer records . |
| 30 | Commissioners were appointed on either side to work out an agreed formula which would cover differences in legal systems , taxation discrepancies , the coinages — which were still quite distinct — and above all the religious rights of Episcopalians , Presbyterians , Cameronians and others who had reason to be wary of the Church of England . |