Example sentences of "what they would " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far AMP executives are not sure where the Pearl is going wrong nor what they would do about it , other than perhaps improve the British group 's technology and have more centralisation of the selling operations . |
| 2 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |
| 3 | The concept of enforcement involves — as the word implies — the use of force , compulsion : one man 's right is enforced by others being compelled to do what they would not have done of their own free will . |
| 4 | Caterers live in the real world , not for them exercise followed by exercise , because they do for real in peace what they would do in war and they would n't want to change that . |
| 5 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 6 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 7 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 8 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 9 | He issued a passionate plea to Labour and the Conservatives to spell out what they would do in a hung Parliament . |
| 10 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 11 | And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem , and what they would do with the reward if they won it , that they did n't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage . |
| 12 | When I asked a class of five-year-olds what they would like to ‘ turn me into ’ for a story , they said a witch , and added , a very wicked witch . |
| 13 | But when the list of prescribed core and other foundation subjects was scrutinised , along with the suggested allocations of curricular time spelled out in the consultation document , many teachers wondered whether what they would be getting would not be a ‘ straitjacket ’ after all . |
| 14 | However , some radiation will still find its way around even these substantial barriers , increasing the exposure to the workforce above what they would expect from the ‘ natural ’ radiation given off by the sun or the earth . |
| 15 | Even with ether to deaden the pain , it was still a dangerous operation ; and there was no knowing what they would find . |
| 16 | Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house . |
| 17 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 18 | You ca n't know how many people would understand you , or who these people would be , what they would do , perhaps it 's like what you said earlier , none of your business . |
| 19 | The sum was to cover compensation for the notional difference between the actual cost of the house , and what they would have paid if the defect had been known beforehand — it was not to cover the cost of the repairs . |
| 20 | Do not hesitate to ask your friends what they would do — they see your home much as the prospective purchaser will see it . |
| 21 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 22 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 23 | of music and what they would do at the weekend … |
| 24 | Ask every resident what they would like and try to satisfy individual preferences . |
| 25 | A simple test for ambiguity in the two lists can be made by asking a number of people to say , separately , what they would expect to see , if they were asked to mark students showing the capabilities given in the two lists . |
| 26 | What they would not accept was that vain and dreadful C.P. Snow , whose appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology was as insulting to the scientific community as it was to the Labour Party . |
| 27 | Lettuce for vegetarian fish can be left in the tank for several hours , allowing them to browse , which is what they would do in nature . |
| 28 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 29 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 30 | What they would do , how they would manage , she had no idea . |