Example sentences of "[adj] would [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 2 | I shook my head regretfully — I had n't brought it with me , thinking the English would look down on my caftan with its silver belt — although I saw garments like it selling here at huge prices . |
| 3 | In the case of Kuwait , invaded by Iraq in August 1990 , this would refer not only to the Iraqis setting alight the oil wells but to the deliberate pumping of six million barrels of oil from refineries into the Persian Gulf waters . |
| 4 | This would lay down specifically when they can and can not play or rehearse . |
| 5 | This would show up in the sedimentary and stratigraphic evidence . |
| 6 | This would show how well the catapult worked and if they had to make any adjustments in their aim . |
| 7 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 8 | The poet wondered how much longer this would go on . |
| 9 | and snap and this , this would go off and you 'd be sat there going right then , you actually |
| 10 | In corporate accounting , this would go down under salaries or labour costs ; while for Brazil it represented an investment of time and resources as well as a transfer of technology . |
| 11 | ‘ I bet this would go down like a lead balloon if it was known in Grantley police station . |
| 12 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 13 | The pioneers of the NHS accepted that it would initially be necessary to increase the resources devoted to the service , but that this would level off as medical needs were satisfied . |
| 14 | This would compare directly with the breakdown of a traditional bill of quantities . |
| 15 | But this would rule out so many of our statements as insignificant that it would be self-defeating . |
| 16 | The Deputy Defence Secretary , Stane Brovet , expressed the Army 's concern that under a multiparty system the government administration would become politicized and that this would affect adversely the role of the Army [ see p. 37155 ] . |
| 17 | However , to pursue this would lead on to criticisms of inductivism that I have reserved for the next chapter . |
| 18 | Within 20° of the centre ( 3kpc ) , plots for both HI and CO similar to Fig. 4 show a decline in the maximum velocities with decreasing longitude ; this would arise naturally if gas were largely excluded from the central 3kpc . |
| 19 | This would fit well with German population trends : university age groups will peak in the late 1980s and fall rapidly after 1990 . |
| 20 | This would move up or ( at the moment ) down against the mark . |
| 21 | In normal wind strengths , this would slow up reaction . |
| 22 | But this would leave out of account the main factor that was involved in determining the order of words , which is the meaning of the whole communication . |
| 23 | They feel that if the Conservatives emerge as the largest minority party on April 9 and attempt to rule alone , the Liberal Democrats could make Labour ‘ sweat ’ by keeping the Tories going , even though this would mean effectively abandoning their clear commitment to electoral reform above all else . |
| 24 | One might assume that this would mean necessarily that the C. and A.G. audited all the Health Authorities . |
| 25 | Dick had persuaded himself ( and so had I ) that a good solution would be a middle school for 9–13-year-olds , and an informed choice of a variety of upper schools thereafter : this would open up a rigid system and preserve the best in the grammar-school tradition , as a counterpoise to the strengths of the Public Schools . |
| 26 | but this would open up the possibility of governments manipulating the voucher system to encourage some courses and discourage others . |
| 27 | The possibility of amendment was rejected by EC Foreign Ministers on April 6 , as this would open up the prospect of other countries also trying to renegotiate the terms of the Treaty . |
| 28 | This would serve also to reduce the increasingly high percentage of extras in innings totals . |
| 29 | Performed in Fartown 's Portakabin classroom , where 14-year-old Sam and his team are working , this would consist largely of the rhythmic hum of Kirklees education department 's antiquated wall-heaters and 13-year-old Nicola Bradford 's occasional sneeze . |
| 30 | This would matter little if decision-making positions were occupied by women possessed of the requisite linguistic knowledge , but unfortunately for all of us , they are not . |