Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set against the enduring strength of the city 's architecture and way of life , the film reflects an attitude that you would recognise even now in Marchmont and the New Town . |
| 2 | Presumably several people would benefit very substantially from Riddle 's will , but how would his projected marriage have changed that ? |
| 3 | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , is expected to show a record $700m pre-tax profit this year compared to $400m in 1992 , Reuter reports from Athens : ‘ It will be a record profit allowing us to invest heavily in the modernisation of Greek telecommunications , ’ a government official said , adding that things would improve even more with OTE 's partial privatisation — the government has said it will sell 49% of OTE this year with 35% going to a foreign phone company ; it plans to invest about $1,000m in 1993 which will include 350,000 new digital lines , the transfer of 220,000 existing lines , many new digital centres and digging up 2,800 miles of trenches for cables . |
| 4 | Do you know , I think that would do rather well for Ron . |
| 5 | Brim 's translation ‘ You will be smitten with the Egyptian dermatitis , characterized by swellings , dry crusts , and ulcers , from which you will never be healed , and the Lord shall smite you in the knees , and in the legs , with a sore botch that can not be healed from the sole of thy foot to the top of thy head ’ not only gives a description that would do very well for syphilis but also pre-empts the habit of the fifteenth-century Europeans of ascribing the disease to the enemy . |
| 6 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 7 | It was believed that similar action would follow very quickly in Scotland , where the Child Care Law Review was nearing completion . |
| 8 | In this new environment it was widely believed that exchange rates , freed from restrictive intervention , would adjust reasonably smoothly to divergences in competitiveness , as predicted by the purchasing power parity theorem . |
| 9 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 10 | The gravitational force between two bodies would decrease more rapidly with distance than it does in three dimensions . |
| 11 | Intuitively , it seems to the authors that ( 9 ) would lead more readily to continuations in which Mary and John are referred to by they or them than would be the case with ( 10 ) . |
| 12 | The same rough model would serve very well for Madeira , the physical geography of which is composed like Jamaica , of hill and hollow in endless iteration . ’ |
| 13 | He would leave home immediately after lunch and come back between ten and eleven at night . ’ |
| 14 | Meanwhile , a blow that would add still further to Falkenhavn 's disillusion was about to fall from a totally different direction . |
| 15 | The channel would start just upstream from Bolter 's Lock at Maidenhead . |
| 16 | I dare say their dabblings in a wide pool of indie noise styles would gel more effectively on record , but tonight it 's just directionless and dull . |
| 17 | With a large proportion of Italian oil imports coming from Libya , Signor Gianni de Michelis , Italian Foreign Minister , warned at the weekend that his country would react ‘ cautiously ’ to any proposal for an oil embargo , the economic sanction which would hit almost instantly at Col Gaddafi . |
| 18 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |