Example sentences of "would [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I do n't write for therapeutic purposes in the sense that you might imagine , you know , someone in a mental hospital would paint or do pottery or conceivably write in order to relieve the inner tensions . |
| 2 | I had instantly buried the intense feelings hoping that with time they would decompose or reform and grow into normal healthy heterosexual longings . |
| 3 | Its mandate would include technology transfers and the encouragement of investment in projects which would enhance or safeguard the environment . |
| 4 | Obviously , the pupils would want or need a boarding education , and the reasons for that preference would have to be stated — on all this , the Report was embarrassingly vague . |
| 5 | They were well aware that large scale investment would make or break the company , but boldly followed their hearts and paid up . |
| 6 | As the moment approached for a key procedural vote that would make or break Reagan 's programme , Stockman received an agitated telephone call from Bill Thomas , a conservative Republican from California and an agent of the administration on Capitol Hill : This extended quotation provides a fascinating picture of the American pluralist system in operation while helping us to understand why the Reaganites were successful in fashioning the coalitions they required in the House of Representatives . |
| 7 | Improved morale would also make possible organizational advances outside parliament , all linked to the issue of Ulster , and with the sights fixed firmly on the next election , an election that would make or break the Union , the Empire and Law 's leadership of the party . |
| 8 | Herluin advanced upon the altar very slowly , as though these few paces , and the climbing of the three steps , must be utilized to the full for prayer , and passionate concentration on this single effort which would make or break for him a dear ambition . |
| 9 | It concedes that some actual judicial decisions and practices are very different from those a conventionalist would make or approve : these it is prepared to count as mistakes . |
| 10 | The other requirements for keeping leather corals , apart from current and light , are much the same as for other coelenterates ; well-filtered water with phosphate and nitrate at levels as low as possible and no fish that would eat or damage them . |
| 11 | The novel administrative tasks of industrialized and competing nation — states — public education , public welfare , urbanization — all create powerful pressures for centralization and bureaucratization , none of which would lessen or disappear under socialist governments . |
| 12 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 13 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 14 | You will also need , in this type of essay , to signal that you are aware of the dangers of reductionism : that is , of simplifying the work of a school or movement until it no longer adequately represents what anyone associated with it would recognise or subscribe to . |
| 15 | The informant of this space wondered if any today would know or care where the Brontes lived . |
| 16 | In most cases with either incipient or full spins , any movement forward , or even just relaxing the backward movement of the stick , would prevent or stop the spin immediately . |
| 17 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 18 | On extended expeditions there were occasions when he would break or lose even his spares , and I would find myself combing deserted beaches and jungle tracks looking for a small circle of glass on which , I was acutely aware , rested the success or failure of an entire project . |
| 19 | I felt if I gripped it too hard it would break or crumple , and I would see the sinews like wires holding it together . |
| 20 | But they became even more closely connected when Hobbes began to think of geometrical figures in terms of the motions which would generate or produce them . |
| 21 | The cost of the Coniston ore delivered at the smelters was reckoned at 3s. 6d. a kibble , or more , which figure would improve or worsen depending upon output , and included " getting & shawdring & the carrieage . " |
| 22 | Neither Mr Barnes nor the UK 's Director of Public Prosecutions , Allan Green QC , would confirm or deny the claims . |
| 23 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 24 | She did n't know what to do or say and wished he would do or say something to break the silence . |
| 25 | Under s8 of UCTA 1977 , s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 is replaced by the following : 3 — If a contract contains a term which would exclude or restrict ( a ) any liability to which a party to a contract may be subject by reason of any misrepresentation made by him before the contract was made ; or ( b ) any remedy available to another party to the contract by reason of such a misrepresentation , that term shall be of no effect except in so far as it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness as stated in s11(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ; and it is for those claiming that the term satisfies that requirement to show that it does . |
| 26 | He is ceratinly better than Lukic with crosses , he catches it whereas lukic would punch or drop leading to panic . |
| 27 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 28 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 29 | … I can not find anything in the cases decided under the railway and electricity statutes which would necessitate or lead to a contrary view . |
| 30 | Announcing the government 's decision , Indian Ministers insisted that it was solely related to their wish to proceed without outside interference , and claimed that the project would go ahead , and would meet or exceed the standards set by the Bank . |