Example sentences of "would [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however , it raised my Curiosity very much : And happening to meet with her a Day or two afterwards , I begg 'd the Favour of seeing it ; which was readily granted . |
| 2 | The poem is set in the night and opens with ‘ … lonely Mira with her Head reclin 'd , / And mourn 'd the Sorrows of her helpless Kind ’ [ vol. 1 , p. 273 ] . |
| 3 | And gave you Beauty , but deny 'd the Pelf |
| 4 | Where large Increase has bless 'd the fruitful Plain , |
| 5 | Hath rotted ere his youth attain 'd a beard ; |
| 6 | Aware , as she most certainly was , that she could not be pleased to see him — grief , if past experience was anything to go by , they 'd no doubt be going for each other 's throats before the meal was half over — Leith returned to the kitchen and prepared some salad . |
| 7 | Or deem 'd an Idiot , ever speaks the Wrong : |
| 8 | Would the outcome have been different had he acknowledged to himself what he was doing ? he wrote . |
| 9 | How much would the season ticket cost ? ’ |
| 10 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 11 | Would the others make for Castle Menzies ? |
| 12 | Never again , except in the nostalgic hopefulness of a few — would the ceremonies be performed ; gone were the offerings , the blood-shedding , the fire and incense , the gorgeous ( and the plain ) robes , and the rest of the sacred imagery which ‘ fenced-off ’ God 's otherness from the people — and brought them close to him in awe and penitence . |
| 13 | Only at the functional level would the two types of system be equivalent . |
| 14 | Would the ballerinas named above have reached the same eminence without the personal attention of a choreographer of genius ? |
| 15 | The overlooked hood in the newspaper scanned by the parajournalist would not have done equally well , nor would the cudgel . |
| 16 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 17 | Certainly only in the next batch of cantos ( post-1930 ) , which began with extended excerpts from the founding fathers of the Republic , would the scale of magnitude of the poem become apparent , also its topicality and its Americanness . |
| 18 | Would the anger of those denied passports exceed the gratitude of those who received them ? |
| 19 | Only if there was no card or a dud card would the car be photographed as evidence for prosecution . |
| 20 | Nor would the Berlin Philharmonic welcome him if that were so . |
| 21 | Nor would the Government I lead . |
| 22 | We are as anxious as anyone to provide good working conditions for public servants ; but would the public servants themselves honestly contend that working conditions during eight hours of the day should , in the present emergency , take priority over the living conditions of mothers and children for the whole twenty-four hours ? |
| 23 | If they did , would the silvery dust mean anything to them ? |
| 24 | Would the boy do ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Would the scholarships pay for everything ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Where would the rest come from ? ’ |
| 27 | Though the weapons and equipment are constantly modernised ( the Micks got the new design of helmets two years ago , the new rifles last year , and we are due the new webbing next year ) , Napoleon 's generals would still have recognised the discipline and aggression , as would the Kaiser 's , and Hitler 's . |
| 28 | ‘ Er , would the Frau like a seat ? ’ |
| 29 | They would certainly have been completely astonished to learn , as would the author , that The Problem of Pain would become a great commercial success . |
| 30 | Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income . |