Example sentences of "would [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never bet on any ra I 'd never gamble , I mean , I would as a joke , but like not serious . |
| 2 | I would as a joke . |
| 3 | If however he had entertained any doubt on the matter , I feel sure that he would as a matter I will not say of honesty but of courtesy refused [ sic ] to accept the money until the position had been made clear to him . |
| 4 | erm what I was putting to you was , do you , do you say that even if it would as a matter of pure English law , it is overridden by community law erm , er , er at least er , at least for the time being |
| 5 | If the Romanists did not destroy Ulster by forcing its people into a united papist Ireland , then God surely would as a punishment for departing from his standards . |
| 6 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 7 | An absence of information to aid the identification of those about to face a stressful event who would as a consequence be particularly susceptible to psychiatric disorder is obviously a good enough reason for not considering preventive intervention . |
| 8 | For if , as we have seen , the vacuity at the heart of Owen 's prospectus was the tacit assumption that owners , having seen the light , would agreeably acquiesce in the expropriation of their property in order that it would be beneficially used by the workers , that at the heart of Marx 's was that the proletariat would as the movement of the dialectic ordained , seize the means of production . |
| 9 | Cut out each letter of the phrase and hide them in or around the house and in other places , as you would for a scavenger hunt . |
| 10 | It 's rather like a Ford Granada ; you can buy the basic version or you can pay almost as much as you would for a Jaguar and get the Ghia version . |
| 11 | Of course they would for a start , I have n't done anything , all that sort of business , but he was extremely good and I think the reason that he 'd got admissions quicker than we did , was partly by virtue of the fact that he was the boss of the department . |
| 12 | I mean I would , I would I 'd stick a needle in their bottoms just like I would for a dog that had gone b , gone bad , I 'd say poor creature ca n't help it |
| 13 | The Gospels , indeed the whole of the Bible , are sketchy documents , which no responsible scholar would for a moment consider absolutely reliable as historical testimony . |
| 14 | With the stake firmed in the hole , hold the tree up with a simple string loop , and plant it just as you would for a bush — except that , without the bud to go by , you will have to look carefully for the soil ‘ tide mark ’ where it was growing in the nursery and finish off to that height , with the standard stem about 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) from the stake . |
| 15 | The themes of savage and city in his work would continue to be important to the moulding of his thought , but would for the moment grow less prominent . |
| 16 | I would for the moment , yeah , I would for the moment . |
| 17 | I would for the moment , yeah , I would for the moment . |
| 18 | What for the insider might be the purification of a defensible religion by its exposure to scientific criticism , would for the outsider be one more step along the path to destruction as an inherently implausible account of human destiny was shown up for what it is . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) Swing your right hand and arm down as you would during a downswing in golf . |
| 20 | However , night workers will never perform their job as efficiently as they would during the day , for the master clock controls far more than just our cycle of sleeping and waking . |
| 21 | I decided therefore to occupy myself with some further tasks in the billiard room , assuming she would after a while see the ludicrousness of her position and leave . |
| 22 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 23 | 8.1.1 any time or indulgence granted by the Landlord to the Tenant or any neglect or forbearance of the Landlord in enforcing the payment of the rents or the observance or performance of the covenants or other terms of this Lease or any refusal by the Landlord to accept rents tendered by or on behalf of the Tenant at a time when the Landlord was entitled ( or would after the service of a notice under the Law of Property Act 1925 section 146 have been entitled ) to re-enter the Premises |
| 24 | You said that erm your mother would after the confinement and after the birth she would erm have to do the normal housework ? |
| 25 | She had to , in order not to notice the faint scent of his cologne , the feel of wool against her cheek when she turned to follow his pointing finger , the deep timbre of his voice as he spoke of the Rome he loved , spoke of it tenderly , as he would of a woman … |
| 26 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 27 | Thus the lexicon contained explicit paths which mapped from the end of would into the beginning of you via , or from to the beginning of the lexicon if there was no boundary effect . |
| 28 | ‘ I am thinking that if all the Jews in the world come to the island it would into the water sink , ja ? ’ |
| 29 | It is possible now to design computing systems which have much better languages than the ones that are readily available , and much more helpful programs on them , which enable the user to have a kind of dialogue in the way that you would with a person that you 're trying to communicate with , whereas , at the moment , you ca n't have that sort of dialogue . |
| 30 | Be as cautious with a dog as you would with a child . |