Example sentences of "[vb past] would [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gamsakhurdia , 51 , had promised to start immediately to implement transitional measures towards independence , which he predicted would take around five years to realise . |
| 2 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
| 3 | Which probably had something to do with the way that what we sold would reappear slightly redone in Acme six months later . |
| 4 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 5 | An observer moving out from the origin would find that initially the area of the spherical surface he reached would grow steadily with s until he had travelled a distance . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ Seven of the eight have competed for Great Britain and we certainly would not have submitted any we thought would go just for the trip . ’ |
| 7 | Though he declined to say who he thought would win tomorrow , one gets the impression that he will be in Scotland 's corner , remembering that if they do win they will head for Twickenham and possible Triple Crown glory . |
| 8 | In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people . |
| 9 | In her affidavit Miss Heal set out , pursuant to the provisions of article 8 ( f ) of the Convention , the circumstances which she said would obtain so far as the mother is concerned if she and the child were to be returned to Ontario . |
| 10 | In your October edition there appears an article entitled ‘ The Tibetan art show Kissinger wished would go away ’ . |
| 11 | The Tibetan art show Kissinger wished would go away |
| 12 | Therefore , I suggested homoeopathy which I hoped would go deeper . |
| 13 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 14 | ‘ There was a time when all companies assumed that the value of property they held would rise inexorably . |