Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] would [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is necessary to have a lot of different stages , so that you 're coming to it fresh each time , and I used to find when I was younger that that would mean putting it aside for several days . |
| 2 | But I do n't like leaving places , so that would have made me sad . ’ |
| 3 | I can see that this would have given you a problem finding a rhyme for ‘ by ’ , but you should have tried a bit harder . |
| 4 | Most of the Poles who went to Russia in the belief that this would help to restore their country 's independent existence never returned : of the 82,000 Poles who made up the Grand Armée 's V Corps , only 2,300 survived the retreat from Moscow . |
| 5 | The Panel operates outside the financial services legislation in the UK , although some would like to see it brought within the statutory framework . |
| 6 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 7 | And that would have made her miserable . " |
| 8 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 9 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 10 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think she would have submitted — I would n't have done in that position — but she would definitely have lost consciousness and that would have given me the title . ’ |
| 12 | And that would have led them to their own Special Branch registry , where there must be a file on his career as a freelance ; it was inevitable after that damned publicity . |
| 13 | Eric Brown and Christy O'Connor also needed par-4s at the last and that would have put them into a playoff with each other . |
| 14 | Similarly , a purchaser need not force defective goods upon his sub-purchaser ( even if contractually entitled to do so ) if that would involve damaging his own commercial reputation , Finlay v. Kwik Hoo Tong ( 1928 C.A. ) . |
| 15 | She had not told Tony either , because she knew he 'd want her to have an abortion , and she would have refused , and this would have split them up . |
| 16 | In spite of this the idea that marriage , the family , property , the State etc. are merely temporal , transitory institutions , the product of a particular social system , is an idea which all modern anthropologists would accept even if many would hesitate to broadcast it . |
| 17 | We had no doubt that if there was the slightest suggestion that the statements differed materially from the evidence given by the witnesses the learned trial judge would have called for these statements and examined them himself and if necessary would have made them available to the defence . |
| 18 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 19 | But that would have solved nothing . |
| 20 | There were of course anomalies , but some would have occurred whatever mechanisms for resource allocation had been adopted . |
| 21 | He could have written them by hand but this would have defeated their objective . |
| 22 | By the end of the century , use of drugs in cases of terminal illness was more common ; but many would have shaken their heads at the thought of patients dying drugged , as is the norm today . |
| 23 | I would nt have been watching ( maybe with the sound down ) , but millions would have seen them be COMPLETELY outclassed . |
| 24 | So , for instance , had you wanted an ad in this issue , we would need to have received your call by 25th August , since that would have given us time to process the ads and put the pages through the system . |
| 25 | According to senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank of Scotland , while this would mean formalising what is already a de-facto two-tier market , it is unlikely to find many objectors among the ranks of private investors . |
| 26 | The major opposition party hesitates to launch too many full-scale attacks on the government if they are likely to result in a series of defeats by however small a majority , since this would tend to demoralize their supporters . |
| 27 | In response to these events , the monetary authorities of countries other than the USA decided that they would no longer intervene to stabilize their exchange rates against the dollar , since this would have meant their accumulating large quantities of dollars for which ( a ) the exchange value was uncertain , and ( b ) the option of convertibility into gold at a fixed price had been terminated . |
| 28 | Whilst few would wish to emulate their struggle , many would like to rival the quality and impact of their paintings . |
| 29 | Elizabeth understood , though neither would have put it into words , that her mother was a thorn in George 's flesh . |
| 30 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |