Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had nothing to hide , except the dull ordinariness of her life before drama school , but for him to know about it would only bring them closer , and she recoiled from the danger that that would lead to . |
| 2 | In carbonates preferential solution of some grain types ( e.g. Harris & kendall , 1986 ) occurs in what would otherwise appear to be a chemically homogeneous sediment . |
| 3 | Pulling at him would only have pulled him deeper into the weed . |
| 4 | His election campaigns were notorious for their cruelty — he often made sure that those who did not vote for him would never vote again — but the depth of his involvement has never been clear . |
| 5 | It was a moment of magic that she must cherish for it would never come again . |
| 6 | Since both Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders accepted that a new Cyprus republic would have a federal and bizonal character , the essence of the pre-conference negotiations concerned the proportion of territory the Turkish authorities in occupied Cyprus were willing to cede to what would effectively become the Greek area in a federal republic ( early indications being that they were prepared to concede no more than 9 per cent of the occupied area ) , and precisely how many refugees could return , out of some 180,000 Greeks Cypriots who fled following the Turkish invasion . |
| 7 | Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize . |
| 8 | If it had gone off it would undoubtedly have caused serious injury to people in the shop . |
| 9 | By the time Judith was seven , it was quite obvious to Bertha Cohen that if she was to have any hope of achieving the enlargement of her life that she dreamed of she would just have to try again . |
| 10 | ‘ You could hope to convert a £125,000 barn for Pounds 80,000 , but by the time you move in you would probably find you have spent nearer the cost price of the barn . ’ |
| 11 | She had brought his heart to life and what she had left in it would never die . |
| 12 | A change is also detected from a mid-nineteenth century optimism that a free economy left to itself would eventually generate sufficient wealth to solve many problems , to pessimism about whether the British economy was capable of such sustained progress . |
| 13 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |