Example sentences of "a [noun] that 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tamayo said he would , but only if Remba could invent a process that would allow them to have a relief-like dimensionality . |
| 14 | So Dymo wanted a product that would enable it to consolidate the ledger output . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Step one of a journey that would take it to Hendon |
| 25 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It would n't be enough to find a poison that would finish her off . |
| 29 | I 've never found that a congenial notion ; it seemed to me that there were ways to be quite contemporary and yet go at the art in a fashion that would allow you to tell complicated stories simply for the aesthetic pleasure of complexity of complication and unravelment , suspense , and the rest . |
| 30 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |