Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these metaphysical realms things would have intrinsic natures and relational properties which would contrast with their intrinsic values just as in nature . |
| 2 | They would thrive , and obediently they would unfold into their familiar selves . |
| 3 | Besides , there is a back-log of acidity already in the soil ; and according to one estimate , Scottish lochs would remain at their disastrously acid level even if present acid fallout was halved by AD 2000 . |
| 4 | Staff from his department would remain at their present headquarters near the House of Commons for the next three years . |
| 5 | However , in accordance with the conventions of the time , and because of his anticipated death , much would remain for his executors to arrange . |
| 6 | Existing comprehensive schools in Coventry , for example , had successfully developed forms of organization based upon the ‘ house ’ — a unit in which a pupil would remain throughout his school career , and to which also belonged a group of teachers . |
| 7 | This was , surely , what would remain in her mind … |
| 8 | The CDS leader , Adolfo Suárez , acknowledging that his party no longer represented a viable government alternative , said that the CDS would remain in its existing alliances with the conservatives until the May 1991 regional and municipal elections were over . |
| 9 | His call came as the BBC governors confirmed that Mr Birt would remain in his post as Sir Michael 's successor . |
| 10 | ’ I was thinking only the other day , ’ he went on , ’ that if I did n't have a wife and child to support I would throw in my resignation , take the voluntary redundancy on offer , sell the flat and go . |
| 11 | Sometimes when he was playing in the house , he would bump into his father by accident . |
| 12 | Liberal Democrat strategists predicted that such a swing would deliver into their party 's hands up to seven Tory seats in the area , including Bath , the constituency held by Mr Patten , Conservative Party chairman . |
| 13 | And even if the case for agriculture is extended to include welfare considerations concerned with the preservation of rural life ( and such claims have regularly been made by the agricultural interest ) then the creation of mini-prairies and suburbanised villages would testify to its failure . |
| 14 | A fellow publisher , Edward Marston , wrote : ‘ In business he was clear-headed , prompt , and decisive , and all who knew him would testify to his absolute straightforwardness and integrity . |
| 15 | In France teenage girls would squeal at his floaters . |
| 16 | When her son was badly injured in a road accident , she nursed him to the point of exhaustion , refusing outside help , and comforted herself with the thought that if only her family knew what she was going through , they would rush to her rescue . |
| 17 | ‘ Paint has a lovely smell , ent it ? ’ she 'd say , ‘ and a lovely feel , ’ and he would laugh at her soft , nonsensical way of talking . |
| 18 | Or are you trying to tell me that the mormaers think Siward would laugh at their jokes ? ’ |
| 19 | Does n't matter whether it 's the er whether it 's the person who does the short list or whether it 's the Home Secretary himself or whether it 's the other members of the authorities such as the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh would prefer in his amendment . |
| 20 | From now on popes would be surrounded by men who would comment on their every dictum . |
| 21 | There were times when his grandma or his aunties made trouble for him behind his back , or when someone would comment on his lack of height and Sweetheart would punish him for the embarrassment he caused her . |
| 22 | Sunday Life contacted the Northern Ireland Office and asked if Sir John he would comment on his personal financial losses . |
| 23 | The AP correspondent would then read out the latest dispatch form Teheran and according to the British embassy , " The Shah would then put on his spectacles and , in a charming manner which endeared him to present , would comment in his quiet English on the news . |
| 24 | But they were fairly sure that Lothar would persist in his old tricks , and in that case , as Nithard candidly admitted , " they would have to be regarded as absolved from the oath they had sworn " . |
| 25 | Decree laws on Jan. 31 provided ( i ) for the assignment of co-operative land for farmers , for their own long-term use , up to 0.5 hectares ; ( ii ) for farmers ' houses to become their own property ; and ( iii ) for an incentive system whereby the incomes of co-operative and state farms would relate to their sales . |
| 26 | For morals we wait until the next chapter but there will be the same dependence on spontaneity whenever I choose on behalf of someone else what I think he himself would want in his own interests . |
| 27 | What a mockery that would make of her insistence that she was independent and perfectly able to take care of herself . |
| 28 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 29 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 30 | Druidism was , however , only a small portion of Posidonius ' picture of Celtic society , and we must ask ourselves what impression such a picture would make on his contemporaries . |