Example sentences of "would [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) . |
| 2 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
| 3 | An officer who spent his career patrolling a middle-class suburb would only in extreme circumstances be involved in a physical encounter . |
| 4 | They would not on any account join hands with Lucifer . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 6 | However , I would not for one moment deny the continuity and the gradualness of the processes which are changing the earth . |
| 7 | On the other hand , he would not for any money have delegated it to anyone else . |
| 8 | Yet nearby landowners had little option other than to tolerate the threat to law and order which the existence of open villages implied because the closed parishes to some extent relied upon the open ones to provide a pool of reserve labour which could be used during periods of peak demand like harvest , but which would not at other times become a charge on the poor rate . |
| 9 | More importantly , the Fellowship gave me the opportunity to study a subject of my choice at a university of my choice : so ( who would not at that time ? ) |
| 10 | Adams stated that he intended to continue his recent discussions with some Protestants in Northern Ireland but would not at this time involve leaders of the two principal Unionist parties . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 12 | The artist Benjamin Haydon was already £600 in debt when he heard that the Royal Academy would not after all be buying his painting Macbeth for 500 guineas . |
| 13 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 14 | But the mood changed abruptly to unalloyed delight during President Menem 's speech when he took up Mr Naveiro 's challenge and made a promise that the book paper import duties would not after all be raised . |
| 15 | In February , however , it was reported that the group would not after all be allowed to become permanent residents because of doubts about their dissident credentials . |
| 16 | Italian officials stated in early August that approximately 10,000 Albanian refugees remaining in Italy since March would not after all be repatriated forcibly . |
| 17 | On the one hand , there were those who , once the prospect of redundancy had been raised , were reconciled to early retirement and to a greater or lesser extent relieved at leaving work , although they were attached to their employer and would not in all probability have left prematurely of their own volition . |
| 18 | remarked that one would not in ordinary parlance say that Desdemona died by accident , because ‘ the horror of the crime dominates the imagination and compels the expression of the situation in terms related to the crime and the criminal alone . ’ |
| 19 | I have made it absolutely clear from the outset that I would not in any circumstances give up my family 's present interest in Blackpool FC . |
| 20 | That would not in any way restrict the paper 's right to print whatever it wished in the rest of the paper . |
| 21 | Anecdotal evidence suggests that CATS have not sought out local-government co-operation : they have implemented little that would not in any case have occurred . |
| 22 | In the early months of 1914 the Unionist leaders prepared for this desperate throw , and the plan was only abandoned when the " mutiny " at the Curragh showed that it was unnecessary , for the officers would not in any case agree to coerce Ulster . |
| 23 | People who would not in any circumstances pass over the peace-line without being in literal fear of their lives safely crossed over , shook hands , embraced and wept . |
| 24 | Many narrow lanes and yards , including those in Darlington , are desecrated with yellow paint where parking would not in any case be very sensible or even desirable . |
| 25 | I suppose , thought Fenella , that I was rather innocent to think that we could get in so easily , or that the Robemaker would not in some way guard his secrets . |
| 26 | Confrontation of issues and attitudes will be polite and respectful in a professional manner but it may nonetheless be a very painful process that would not in customary terms be considered friendly , although in truth it is a most fundamental act of friendship from one human being to another . |
| 27 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 28 | Edmunds went on in his lecture-room style as though Fox had not interrupted : ‘ Either form of the poison could have been administered in brandy but brandy would not by any means completely mask the bitter taste . ’ |
| 29 | Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) . |
| 30 | There were also apprentice schools attached to large manufacturers such as the Metropolitan-Vickers Apprentice School in Trafford Park , Manchester , which offered a dedicated form of secondary education for apprentices with that large electrical engineering firm , some of whom would also in due course seek employment with other electrical manufacturers . |