Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] would [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to plan a route that would take them over 50 kilometres in a three day period . |
| 2 | She set off up the scarp , using juts and ledges as a diagonal staircase to take her on a course that would bring her close to Johannsen when they both reached the top of the incline . |
| 3 | Fifty had continued upriver , on a course that would take them to Perth and to Scone opposite . |
| 4 | It did not generate a framework that would help us understand the nature of continuity and change in Britain . |
| 5 | Then he turned , and with a little gesture of farewell crossed the highway and headed back towards Lima , a small , shambling figure glancing back every now and then in search of a truck that would give him a lift . |
| 6 | It is well defended ; by a storm that would surprise you . |
| 7 | The monks and nuns , virtually pensioned-off gentry , could see little future except death in resisting the royal will and threw in their lot with a change that would guarantee them reasonable security . |
| 8 | She remained there for four years , confined to a cell that would allow her neither to sit nor lie down : it was closed by a large stone that could be moved only by Roger . |
| 9 | Bernes , who has since resigned , denies the allegations and made a counter-claim that Valenciennes trainer Boro Primorac had approached Marseille to secure a result that would help them avoid relegation . |
| 10 | The big broker even asked me , as I left his office , if I could recommend someone to design a programme that would let him keep track of his client 's accounts as he traded . |
| 11 | Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology . |
| 12 | Though intimidation was not discussed in the case it can not be that B could have avoided the binding nature of the contract by the simple device of counterclaiming for damages for intimidation and it seems therefore that for the purposes of intimidation the plaintiff should be required to show unlawful coercion at least of such a degree as would enable him to avoid a contract . |
| 13 | If you have such a group and would like them to be enrolled for membership please contact , who will require a full list of names . |
| 14 | I did find a place that would take us but for Holmes there were too many interesting species of humans and dogs , for him to get involved in being trained . |
| 15 | Tamayo said he would , but only if Remba could invent a process that would allow them to have a relief-like dimensionality . |
| 16 | So Dymo wanted a product that would enable it to consolidate the ledger output . |
| 17 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 18 | Lecourt has pointed to the absence of ‘ a concept that would enable him to think together several histories with different statuses ; in short , the concept of a differential history ’ . |
| 19 | Before he can contemplate a victory that would establish him as United 's most successful manager since the days of Sir Matt Busby in the 1960's , United must first overcome relegation-threatened Luton at Kenilworth Road tomorrow and Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford on Easter Monday . |
| 20 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |
| 21 | And incredibly , users at the top end are still crying out for more power because IBM failed to keep its promise of increasing performance at a rate that would keep it ahead of customer demand . |
| 22 | I was not a man fighting to live but I was a boxer on the ropes , praying for a miracle that would save him from almost certain defeat . |
| 23 | It was up to her , quickly , to forge herself a manner that would give her an advantage in whatever negotiations were to come : and she had done so , by the time he came down for his breakfast . |
| 24 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 25 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 26 | Step one of a journey that would take it to Hendon |
| 27 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
| 28 | They said they had a knife and would attack him if he did n't hand over his own vehicle . |
| 29 | She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul . |
| 30 | Fifteen minutes later McKillop was in the street waiting for a bus that would take him to Westminster where he could get a connection down to Kennington . |