Example sentences of "[verb] and would " in BNC.

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1 QPR are not good enough to finish in the top six , according to Trevor Francis , their player-manager , but they should have won and would surely have done so but for a mind-boggling miss by Andy Sinton when it was 2-2 .
2 However , Mary was still upset and sulking and would n't have any tea , and with a ‘ so long ’ to Dad she walked out , head held high , just like Mum .
3 I glanced at Lili thinking that she must know and would somehow reveal what was disturbing him .
4 But if you 're in an emergency situ situation , you do n't know and would you be equal to it , would you have some reserve you could fall on ?
5 May I ask of any of your readers have any of these cutters they do not need and would wish to sell them ?
6 Freud thought that such a process was occurring and would continue , and that people would have to learn to live without sacred meaning and infantile religiosity .
7 New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system .
8 The whole day 's spectacle was an affirmation that a common history mattered and would be maintained .
9 Homework was changed in mid-stream but was definitely expected and would be completed .
10 Initially , a swift , artistically rough job was contemplated , a ‘ tendentious piece ’ which would take a few months to write and would enrage ‘ the nihilists and Westerners ’ and set them ‘ howling about me that I 'm a retrograde .
11 If someone had neglected to put it away in the buffet after supper , then with luck it had been forgotten and would not be missed .
12 Thus the matter inside the black hole would be trapped and would collapse to some unknown state of very high density .
13 The first ( a ) is that the ratio would continue to increase and would approach even numbers during the 1990s .
14 Pinochet , in an angry public response to the accusations , stated that the army would respond each time it was attacked and would " ignore the Constitution and put an end to it " .
15 I tell you , after a long life of many escapes , many dramas which might have been tragedies , what I want and would value most is to be free to choose as much of my life as is given to me — to live it by my own lights , Mary , to do , insofar as God wills it , what I want to do to the very hilt and limit . ’
16 We have tried to obtain glassfibre moulds in the past , have not succeeded and would be grateful if you could advise us on any way that is known to you of building such a craft .
17 To his puzzlement , however , she kept her eyes averted and would n't look at him .
18 There was thus a source of tension built into the very heart of the new biology , a tension that was never resolved and would ultimately divide the life sciences into a chaos of competing disciplines .
19 Moreover , in January 1991 it was announced that the tests for 7 year olds had been modified and would take up half of teaching time for three weeks .
20 Practitioners are now well educated and would not tolerate ‘ taking the crumbs off the medical table ’ , Ray Rowden , chief executive of West Lambeth Community Unit , told a meeting of the National Association of Clinical Tutors in London last week .
21 As a result , they would be better educated and would not be thrown on the scrap heap .
22 In case you forget and would like the staff at Frank Glennon Limited to give you a free quotation before your next renewal date please complete and return the coupon below .
23 But Malcolm Gourlay , BRINDEX 's chairman , said most new fields would be too small to benefit and would not be developed because of the adverse impact of withdrawing PRT relief on the cost of exploration wells .
24 The process , it is said , would involve an investigation of what the Minister meant by the words he used and would inhibit the Minister in what he says by attaching legislative effect to his words .
25 This was the result of the operator failing to provide adequate information on the number of passengers carried and would not be paid until you had assessed the operator 's performance .
26 The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again .
27 Mixed arable and dairy farms and vegetable farms are the easiest to convert to organic : the huge arable farms of East Anglia are more difficult because of intense production systems , as are chicken and pig farms where only a minimum of land is owned and would not be large enough to accommodate free range farming .
28 Guns sank till they became useless ; rifles caked and would not fire ; even food was tainted with the inevitable mud . ’
29 Asylum seekers would be fingerprinted and would have to remain in " reception centres " until their case was decided .
30 It would help to reduce the caseload and so permit the conditions of the Patient 's Charter to be met and would make it possible for consultants to be more involved in the routine care of patients , both emergency and elective , and so diminish the responsibilities of junior doctors for service commitment .
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