Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 2 | The second approach , directed at the fertilised egg , would affect all the cells of the growing embryo , including the sex cells eventually . |
| 3 | Any reduction in income which resulted , would affect both the viability of the DSO contract and the Regional Council 's share of income . |
| 4 | The East would prefer such a comprehensive approach from the community , rather than a series of bilateral arrangements . |
| 5 | And yet in 1953 another keenly awaited publication lit a fuse which eventually would explode many an illusion of carefully tended domestic bliss . |
| 6 | It is nowadays quite unrealistic for a tenant even to attempt to secure a long letting of commercial property at a fixed rack rent ; and no well-advised landlord would grant such a lease . |
| 7 | A guilty middle-class version of feminism would want all the sisters to launder , all the sisters to teach . |
| 8 | Some other students — but he knew from experience that his mother would want all the details , and he clearly remembered the time he had slipped out for an evening to meet a girl the only girl he had ever really liked . |
| 9 | I can not make myself … and who would want such a … thing … ? ’ |
| 10 | Now members of LA 's rock ‘ aristocracy ’ , they may be viewed in some quarters as an anachronism but no-one could deny that they can still draw the big crowds in a way that would make many a ‘ hip ’ band envious . |
| 11 | I 've seen that girl ride straight at an obstacle would make many a man blanch . ’ |
| 12 | No analyst would make such a claim today , and the ‘ nationalization ’ thesis has had to be revised in the light of increased local variations in voting behaviour . |
| 13 | USL president Roel Pieper says the technology that would make such a move possible is not yet formalised , indicating that it will be either the Open Software Foundation 's Architecture Neutral Distribution Format or a binary conversion . |
| 14 | When asked why they would make such a move , most replied that |
| 15 | Chamberlain provided the way out by suggesting to Balcarres that both he and Long should withdraw and so allow Law to be elected unanimously ; he also turned down Balcarres 's remarkable advice that he should allow Long to be elected since Long would make such a mess of things that Chamberlain would be bound to succeed within the year . |
| 16 | The question is whether the Treaty of Maastricht would make such a transfer of allegiance imperative . |
| 17 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 18 | If only she had realised , on that first morning when she had seen Luke crossing the reception area of Woodline Design , that he would make such a shattering impact upon her , then she might have walked away . |
| 19 | The question that the hon. Gentleman has to answer is what nostrums put forward by his Front-Bench spokesmen would make such a record possible under a Labour Government . |
| 20 | It was the task of the Uthwatt Committee , from whose report this quotation is taken , to devise a scheme which would make such a basis possible . ’ |
| 21 | The impossibility of shaking them in cross-examination would make such a reform grossly unfair to the media . |
| 22 | No Spanish woman would make such a crude remark , unless she was a gypsy woman , of course . ’ |
| 23 | But other marsupials live in a way that would make such an exposed method of transport positively lethal . |
| 24 | It seemed unlikely that anyone so competent as Dora would make such an elementary mistake , but under that fierce gaze Melissa felt bound to make some suggestion , however implausible . |
| 25 | Instead , Mr Gummer told the House of Commons the list drawn up by the manufacturers themselves contained new instructions which would make all the machines ‘ perfectly safe in use . ’ |
| 26 | But Labour 's early hopes that its leader 's superior campaigning skills would make all the difference evaporated in the realisation that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare . |
| 27 | IF England could hold their own against Pakistan , it would not only be a great achievement , but one which would make all the difference to their chances of regaining the Ashes from Australia in 1993 . |
| 28 | It would make all the difference . |
| 29 | A well set out manual with step-by-step diagrams , even cartoon pictures , would make all the difference , because the Multiverb has so much to offer the guitarist in terms of both quantity and quality . |
| 30 | It was the time when her mother took to the couch because she could n't stand the sight and sound of the hordes of women and children with their buckets , and the arranged fights among the urchins so that one or two of their gang could get away with some lumps of coal , which would make all the difference between having a fried meal or freezing both inside and out . |