Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd rather have when it comes to safety |
2 | ‘ Ah-ha , ’ he started confidently , ‘ that would only happen if it had been a defenestration . |
3 | There must be some height , call it h , such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height , but would just survive if it fell from a slightly lower height . |
4 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
5 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
6 | In the end each successive British government was obliged to trust the Americans , and to hope that circumstances would not arise when it disagreed with American policy . |
7 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
8 | Americans , who also used the term " Edwardian Era " , would probably say that it ended on 2nd April 1917 , when the United States entered the war . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | They would n't exist if it had n't been for him . |
11 | You would n't come if it bothered you . |
12 | Either in principle , or in detailed allocation , but would n't object if it went somewhere else . |
13 | He would n't notice that it had gone . |
14 | And I would n't have if it had n't been for my mother … |
15 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |
16 | Throughout his time in Darlington he maintained that the football club would never succeed while it played at Feethams . |
17 | And , my God , they would certainly succeed if it came out that she was Postlethwaite 's niece . |