Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The health of the industry in the longer term , and hence the degree of independence Britain would attain in military aircraft production , would depend on the outcome . |
2 | On Jan. 14 Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut had confirmed that the USA would double to 96 the number of combat aircraft stationed at the NATO military base at Incirlik . |
3 | The number of council house owners in Darlington would double under new Conservative plans , Mr Fallon said this week . |
4 | In order to head off conflict with Ghana over the replacement , assurances were later given that Quainoo would remain as overall commander , with Dogonyaro in charge of field operations . |
5 | They signed a declaration which ( i ) stated that the CIS was open to all former Soviet states and any other countries which shared its objectives ; ( ii ) stated that strategic forces would remain under unified control ; ( iii ) confirmed co-operation on a single economic space ; and ( iv ) stated that member states of the CIS undertook to honour the international obligations of the former Soviet Union . |
6 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
7 | In a typical 16th century English charter party the owner of the vessel acknowledged , directly or through the ship 's master , that : 1 ) he had let the ship and promised to prepare it , by a fixed date , to take in the goods provided by the charterer ; 2 ) the ship would sail with the first convenient wind to the stipulated port ; 3 ) in accordance with a receipt or bill of lading he would deliver the goods in good condition to the designated person ; 4 ) the ship would remain at that port for a fixed period to take in such goods as the charter party nominee party needed to reload , and that the ship would then return to the port of origin , and deliver the reloaded goods in good condition ; and 5 ) the crew would be as described , and would be furnished with the proper gear . |
8 | The decree exempted a list of raw and construction materials and production and technical goods , which would remain at fixed prices . |
9 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
10 | Normally the others would remain for another hour or so . |
11 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
12 | The other potential problem was what would happen to Gloucester 's authority after the young king 's coronation , but even this seems to have been settled to the duke 's advantage and John Russell , in his draft speech for the opening of parliament , assumed that Gloucester would remain in overall control — although he clearly also felt that this was a departure from precedent which needed to be justified . |
13 | Muslim minorities would remain in Croat-governed provinces if the plan were carried out . |
14 | His team went further in hoping that only a quarter of total investment would remain in private hands . |
15 | One eighteenth-century author , E. Smith , whose Complete Housewife , published in 1727 , was also the first cookery book to be printed in America , claimed that her Everlasting Syllabubs would remain in perfect condition for nine or ten days , although at their best after three or four . |
16 | On June 25 , UK Prime Minister John Major said that UK forces would remain in northern Iraq until the Kurdish population received assurances guaranteeing their safety . |
17 | She would remain like that for a while , lost in her own little world , completely unaware of his presence . |
18 | Joy would be drawn towards the shops and restaurants which had friendly , helpful staff — while Gloom would bump into those who were stern and morose . |
19 | I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on |
20 | How many stepmothers would think of that ? |
21 | ‘ I 'll be damned , ’ he said to himself ‘ I wonder what Irina would think of that ! ’ |
22 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
23 | I mean , I do n't know what people would think of that . |
24 | My parents lived in constant awareness of the big house and its occupants , and we children were imbued with the problem of what the squire and his household would think of any action or behaviour . |
25 | She remembered her early unsuccessful struggles for equal treatment and wondered what her sisters would think of this news . |
26 | You would think you would think from this that Tory MPs were all paragons of virtue . |
27 | they would think like that probably the motorcycle and erm for in compulsory helmet wear . |
28 | The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal . |
29 | The bruised executives of British Coal would testify to that after their run-in over the coal contract which ended up in court . |
30 | Not only the Headingley crowd would testify to this ; Lillee , Thomson and their friends saw him reach his century from 71 balls against them in 1975–6 , and go on to his highest Test score of 169 . |