Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] would [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The voters ' register check which the bureaux can do for their clients would then work as a safety-net to catch fraudulent aliases .
2 Rose , now 66 , explained that she used to visit the doctor regularly as her thighs would continually rub against each other and actually bleed because they were so big .
3 The perceived decrease in the public 's generosity means that it is even more important for businesses , and I mean all business , not just the larger ones that have traditionally provided the pool of resource , to realise that their businesses would only succeed within a healthy society , and a healthy society means the support of business men and business women .
4 The circle of friends and acquaintances with which the farm worker surrounded himself consisted predominantly of other farm workers , both at work — where , as we have seen , workers were far more gregarious than they are today — and in the village , where most of their neighbours would also work on the land .
5 Although it was made clear that their incentives would simply extend to exemption from basic customs control ( unless or until their products entered European Community territory ) and that there would be no other special assistance , the government received 45 applications for designation .
6 On April 30th , a Golan resident proclaimed in a radio interview that he and his friends would open fire on Israeli soldiers if they were ordered to do so by the elected leadership of the 12,000-odd Golan settlers .
7 He was always prone to grotesque mistakes ( as listed in the note ) BUT he also provided World Class saves regularly , and but for his lapses would probably rank as one of the worlds greats .
8 She appears not to have worshipped alongside her husband at the chapel ; he was a full member , and his daughters would later follow in his footsteps , but Ann never committed herself in quite that way .
9 Indeed , I can think of nobody your enemies would less welcome in the post . ’
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