Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a proper understanding of the concept of communicative competence would have revealed that it gives no endorsement for the neglect of grammar . |
| 2 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 3 | The approach of the majority seems to have been that even if there was such a breach the courts would refuse to acknowledge that it existed . |
| 4 | Thus the objectors would want to say that it is a " religiously " true statement that God raised Jesus from the dead , and this has a spiritual meaning ; but that on the level of history , Jesus died and remained dead and buried . |
| 5 | But until this has actually proved to be possible — and Jakobson would have denied that it is — it seems reasonable to accept that both kinds of equivalence constitute a distinguishing feature , if not of all poetic language , at least of a great deal of it . |