Example sentences of "[subord] they would [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the custom in Egypt , on the Friday after a body had been interred , for the women of the family to visit the tomb , where they would break a palm branch over the grave and distribute cakes and bread to the poor . |
| 2 | Pilger and Hayling wrote a job description outlining the editor in chief 's total power over the editor , which was to be shown to applicants for the editor 's job so they would know the position . |
| 3 | Mr Porter had said if loyalists did so they would get no support from the House or the country . |
| 4 | He had changed into a clean white shirt and tie , and his dark pants just fitted him , though Dorothy wondered if they would stand the strain of his sitting down . |
| 5 | While they waited , Jean popped into her local Midland Bank to ask if they would change the money when it finally arrived . |
| 6 | Yes , she has got some tickets , a , she 's made some and erm hoping those who ca n't come will buy ticket at least , but if they would bring a bottle you know , something for the prizes er erm they do n't pay for coffee , biscuit . |
| 7 | He introduced his father , a tubby , good-natured little man , and asked them if they would like a lift into Plymouth . |
| 8 | One morning a carter and his son were delivering a load of firewood and Grandmother asked if they would like a slice of pudding before they left . |
| 9 | Take precise details ie. name of caller , telephone number , exact message , if they would like the recipient to return the call , etc . |
| 10 | I doubted , however , if they would get the length of Apricot Sunsets . |
| 11 | The remaining ten might be useful " when there was no preacher in their own or neighbouring societies provided they would take no step without the advice of those who had more experience than themselves " . |
| 12 | Cos I think he would have made a bit of difference up front there wi er er cos they would have the defence |
| 13 | It was therefore greatly in the masters " interests to insist that there was " no point " in the women learning the later skills ( because they were not strong enough , because they would leave the trade early , because they would " never be as good as a man " and so on ) . |
| 14 | These two new clauses are important , and the Government should be able to accept them , because they would ensure a right to independent legal advice and a choice of that advice . |
| 15 | Some may seek to argue that a lesser crime is committed , because they would like the law to be sufficiently flexible to allow the ‘ mercy-killer ’ to avoid facing a charge of murder . |
| 16 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 17 | The older ones were pleased because they would get a lot of money , the younger ones were upset because they were thinking about the future . |
| 18 | Rising levels of oxygen would benefit the slowly evolving vertebrates , with mutations involving stiffening through the growth of external coverings , which ordinarily would have been lethal since they would inhibit the diffusion of oxygen . |
| 19 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 20 | In order to gain some idea of the adequacy of the diet , I asked several people from poor families outside how much rice they ate and whether they would find the prison food acceptable . |
| 21 | Respondents were asked whether they would describe the quality of life of the person in the year before they died as good , fair , or poor . |
| 22 | The subject was whether they would support an initiative to tighten up laws on pornography , and all were in favour . |
| 23 | He wondered whether they would see the Tree Spirits and then he wondered whether they wanted to see them . |
| 24 | Tony Knight , who worked at BT as an electronics engineer for 23 years before opting for the academic life at Henley Management College , says that BT middle managers have attended his courses uncertain of whether they would have a job to go back to . |
| 25 | Now , nowadays a good training hospital will , will want at least er a number of O levels and preferably two or even three A levels before they would accept a student . |
| 26 | One expected feature of Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6 was missing : it was to have incorporated a LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroup client — but corporate beta testers demanded its removal before they would install the thing saying they were worried about users getting unauthorised access to servers . |
| 27 | If Inchbad married Flame , it would be a very special occasion indeed ; it might be just the occasion when they would want a dish or two of roast Gnome and , more to the point , it would get the Gruagach out of paying for the new Crown Jewels . |
| 28 | This should be required reading for all tourists to Kenya — though they would need no coercion beyond the first thirty pages or so . |
| 29 | For they would enable the cat to switch more easily to whatever new food regimen was forced upon it by altered circumstances . |
| 30 | However , there is a distinct intensional structure underlying them ( again , the underlining is purely to indicate which P we are interested in , and is not part of our notational system ) : ( 47 ) That is , users of English interpret the relation between the property of the adjective and the word or phrase which instantiates the preceding entity in just the same way as they would interpret the relation between a predicative adjective and the subject in an explicit clause ; it therefore seems reasonable to call adjectives so used clausal adjectives . |