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 .
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