Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] would [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this I would admit to a personal bias toward flexibility and a lateral approach . |
| 2 | Similar difficulties can occur if the former matrimonial home was in the names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , for on the death of either it would appear to a purchaser that the survivor had the right to sell ( Law of Property ( Joint Tenants ) Act 1964 , s1(1) ) . |
| 3 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 4 | These he would produce with a flourish during our Wednesday- and Sunday-evening sessions . |
| 5 | At the beginning of October 1983 I announced that out of a total staff of 817,633 we would ask for a reduction of 4,837 , which would save about £40 million . |
| 6 | Q My hair is very fine and lank and I 'm sure it would benefit from a perm but I 'm worried that it will break . |
| 7 | If you were to talk to him , I 'm sure he would listen to a fine man like yourself . |
| 8 | ( I wish she would , but fat lot of good it would do to a gilgul . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Levels of nitrogen dioxide recorded in the air on Wilton site were similar to or less than those you would find in a town or city centre , ’ he said . |
| 10 | If firms agree to set outputs or prices which give them higher profits than those they would earn in a one-shot NE , and one of them reneges on this agreement , then in the following period(s) punitive actions can be undertaken , for example a price war , to wipe out the gains from the deviation . |
| 11 | Also , the vendor should consider the need for warranties similar to those it would seek on a share purchase . |
| 12 | When I was small I would creep into a corner . |
| 13 | I said that the best thing he could do for the whites was to demonstrate to the blacks that they fully supported the widest possible franchise , and that if he did that he would emerge as a statesman , with a statesman 's view of his responsibilities . |
| 14 | Glancing at him , she was tempted to tease him about the sugar he had borrowed earlier , but if she did that it would amount to a tacit admission that he was right about her behaviour . |
| 15 | ‘ The majority of local authorities wo n't even publicise that they have a duty to provide because they were frightened it would result in a huge increase in demand they would be unable to cope with ’ , she said . |