Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [conj] they would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially the males with slightly longer than average tails might have been fitter than average ; females who preferred to mate with them would have an advantage because they would produce better sons . |
| 2 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 3 | They thus combined , in a frustrating way , a lack of precision and argument with an expectation that they would become the mandatory cornerstones of classroom practice . |
| 4 | As has been noted above ( page 10 ) all UUUC candidates with the exception of Kilfedder signed an undertaking that they would observe the directives of the UUUC . |
| 5 | Unfortunately this also means that non-tax-payers lose out to an extent as they would prefer a higher gross interest rate that is subject to a person 's rate of income tax . |
| 6 | These concerned matters that were a pure technicality ( being allowed to run an advertisement that they would have had no intention of ever running again ) and a virtual truism ( being told that future circumstances may arise in which they should be reasonably able to readdress the issues at hand ) . |