Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [that] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists .
2 What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut .
3 What actually happened was that they would disappear before you got there .
4 What attracted me to this way of speaking is that it would seem to allow for a celebration of the diversity of human beings , this held together with an emphasis on the commonness of their humanity .
5 All I heard was that you 'd come back in a taxi the worse for wear .
6 A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit .
7 The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him .
8 An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes .
9 All … all that I 'm saying is that I would like my job and what I do ideally to be like that .
10 No , all I 'm saying is that I 'd like to support Don and what Don 's just said there and I think that er , we a that is what we are gon na have to do .
11 What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends .
12 ‘ It also made a lot of sense that part of the service Metaltronix offered was that I would go into the studio and tweak the gear while these guys were recording , and that 's what happened .
13 If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’
14 With the election of Margaret Thatcher , the assumption among some lobbyists had been that we would institute a new round of ‘ Beeching cuts ’ .
15 To his surprise , the strongest argument in favour of taking the job had been that it would keep him near to Frances .
16 Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations .
17 Mr Frederick Garnet , 81 , said : ‘ The last thing she said to us before she left was that she would have some very good news for the family when she came home .
18 But what she hoped was that he would return before breakfast so that he would find her here , crouched lonely and exhausted on the top stair , waiting for him , frightened because he had left her alone .
19 The last thought that flittered across her mind before she slept was that she would have given everything she possessed , sold her immortal soul , for Michele to have loved her as the Lion of Venice had loved his Lucia .
20 I know you 'll think I 've got no end of a cheek , but what I was hoping was that you 'd ring Rosemary for me and , if her parents were n't about , pass the phone over to me . ’
21 The first thing they realised was that they would have to slow things down .
22 Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved .
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