Example sentences of "[art] [noun] would [adv] [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had . |
| 2 | But Robert Oppenheimer showed in 1939 that an old star of more than twice the mass of the sun would inevitably collapse when it had exhausted all its nuclear fuel . |
| 3 | You feel good about the help you 've given perhaps , but you still wish the person would only ring when it 's essential . |
| 4 | This corresponds to about three locks per hour , though not continuously , as the lift would only operate when there was traffic to move . |
| 5 | Curled alongside the mighty Rhine there 's plenty of messing about on the river to do , and the hospitality would certainly help when entertaining Mr. Toad . |
| 6 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 7 | ‘ Therefore the time would surely come when mind would control matter — he forecast a field being ploughed by remote control — and eventually Man would conquer sickness and become immortal . |
| 8 | But she knew it would be hard and that the time would surely come when Creggan would grow angry with her as Kraal had done . |
| 9 | Painful though it was , she declared that the time would soon come when she would feel it necessary to inspect America for herself . |
| 10 | As every young man foresaw , his courtship was protracted , but it sometimes seemed to Paul as if the time would never come when she would let him take her hand , let alone kiss her . |
| 11 | On the ( implicit ) assumption that market prices for land would rise , the time would inevitably come when the charge would begin to greatly exceed the corresponding claim on the 300 million fund . |