Example sentences of "[conj] would [adv] [vb infin] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Yet in the afternoon the council put its weight behind a scheme that would selectively subsidise and increase the earning capacity of a small group who are by no means the worst paid members of society , and this largely at the expense of the previously agreed underfunded NHS and the taxpayer .
2 Conditions of development , including general health standards , may play a role , but data that would aptly verify or refute this are not available .
3 It coincided with the commercial development of two key components for the polymerase chain reaction : a DNA polymerase that could be heated at quite high temperatures ( boiling water ) without losing its activity , and robust machines that would quickly heat and cool samples repeatedly in a cyclic fashion .
4 Perhaps she never realized quite how deep-seated was this need , but shop , as well as factory staff , could not fail to be impressed at the way both she and Bernard always knew their names , asked with interest about their home life and would always try and help if there was a problem by sending taxis , flowers , hot meals or whatever the crisis demanded .
5 Next morning she simply would not accept they were still trembling all over but would just nod and say , ‘ Oh yes , I can see you 're much better , luv . ’
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