Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun sg] would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In under a minute they 'd made two sharp lefts and a squealing right , and were roaring down a back street so narrow the least miscalculation would have taken off handles , hubs and mirrors . |
| 2 | The latter choice would have required two ‘ A ’ levels and his involvement with the Birchfield club prevented his joining the armed forces . |
| 3 | Had I taken up my station on the same day two , three or even four hundred years earlier the same spectacle would have presented itself , completely unchanged . |
| 4 | The association also calculated that , over and above income support , the same claimant would have received £360 in housing benefit , on a typical rent of £30 a week . |
| 5 | Of course he had known Rufus had this in mind , was three years through his time at medical school , had already considerable knowledge and nous — who could forget that ? — but somehow he had imagined that the same fate would have overtaken the others as had overtaken him , a deathly stultifying , an inhibition on all that was ambitious and of ascendant character , a remorseful withdrawing into the shade . |
| 6 | In this way , the institution would be given more flexibility but at the same time would have to live with any mistakes it might make . |
| 7 | The same penalty would have applied to your average man on the road . |
| 8 | The same thing would have happened in the Bermuda triangle disappearances , do n't you see ? |
| 9 | My first experience in going into tramcars er in , in Edinburgh anyway and I suppose that the same thing would have happened er in any country , just gone through the ravages of war , with blackouts and so forth . |
| 10 | And er they do n't necessarily er er do things with these toy tractors er Well th they they tend to things with these toys to imitate the the real thing er so I th I think the same thing would have happened , maybe a hundred years ago or maybe less , in regard to ploughing with horses on the in the fields . |
| 11 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |