Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The panel apparently chose not to have a permanent chairman on two grounds : first because it was believed that subgroups would quickly emerge to focus on particular issues and events and that these would evolve their own arrangements , and secondly to avoid the possibility of particular individuals dominating proceedings . |
| 32 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 33 | And if the religious world sought to understand the passing away of the old order and the emergence of the new one , the secular world too , faced with the greatest social change in history , reacted by the invention of sociology and the construction of grand social theories that would explain it all . |
| 34 | There must be something in this house which would explain it all . ’ |
| 35 | She was four years older than Jessie but he would treat them both alike . |
| 36 | Surely Sexy Lexy would answer her own front door ? |
| 37 | They were less enthusiastic about two places which would consider themselves several cuts above the Meridien . |
| 38 | To do this , however , they would need their own transport . |
| 39 | Given the richness of interconnections between the boxes , it could have been any one of them that was dubbed the conscious one , so we would need something more by way of justification for choosing any particular one . |
| 40 | Er but obviously I I would need my own transport . |
| 41 | Perhaps we would need it some time . |
| 42 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |
| 43 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 44 | He would win them all , and by demonstrating his great prowess he would force the anonymous Moi princess to step forward and offer him her hand … |
| 45 | The alliance was ready to hold talks with Russia on intermediate-nuclear force ( INF ) reductions in Europe , but at the same time would update its own defences by introducing ‘ cruise ’ missiles to Europe . |
| 46 | Promising herself that she would explore it all properly later , she set off to find accommodation . |
| 47 | ‘ I think it would suit you that way . ’ |
| 48 | If I had an Access card I would buy him this that and everything . |
| 49 | Notwithstanding the fact that this amount of money would buy you any amount of glossy varnish , cheap gold plating , plastic pearl and flamed-maple veneer , these German-made acoustics appear exceptional value . |
| 50 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 51 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 52 | The Dumbarton MP , John McFall , shadow Scottish home affairs spokesman , accused the Government of failing to carry out its manifesto commitment to change the law and stated that Labour would introduce its own bill if the Government refused to make space for the legislation . |
| 53 | ‘ The trial lasted six days and in his summing up , the judge said that it was too difficult to determine the age of the dogs and that he did not believe a breeder would know her own stock — so basically the ‘ coincidence ’ was too strong . |
| 54 | Mr Ferguson would enjoy nothing more than to arrive at Liverpool on April 26 as champions . |
| 55 | In black this detailing might be inoffensive , but in colour-coordinated white the Carlsson looks as if it would enjoy nothing more than hanging around outside Stringfellows waiting to pick up Page Three girls . |
| 56 | Then Mozart would supply the publisher Hoffmeister with a series of compositions which would bring him enough revenue to repay the debt over two years . |
| 57 | Unless Napoleone took care , the food he had given out would bring its own troubles . |
| 58 | But every day now would bring its own fear , a series of terrors . |
| 59 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 60 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |