Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 2 | There are also two Backhouse fields , both placed where one would expect them — overlooked by the domestic quarters of a farmhouse . |
| 3 | In a statement issued on May 14 the NPA warned that the 40,000 US military personnel currently stationed in the Philippines should be withdrawn or they would " suffer the agony of attrition . " |
| 4 | Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield . |
| 5 | She had loved the sense of purpose and the freedom and most of the Africans , and she had always supposed that she would stay there all her life , and finally die there , and be buried , like David Livingstone 's wife , under a baobab tree . |
| 6 | How he expected his career to develop when he contracted this marriage is unclear , but he can hardly have supposed that he would be summoned home by the King when Archbishop Warham died , in order to succeed him as Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 7 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 8 | Celia had already stressed that she would never countenance her husband at the birth . |
| 9 | Teachers were reminded that we would need nominations for the three places becoming vacant on the Executive Committee for the coming year . |
| 10 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 11 | It was not known whether they would be the most advanced protagonists of environmental scanning , but for various reasons it was expected that they would have views about scanning and about the extent to which they wished to undertake formal environmental analysis . |
| 12 | Charles 's appointments were of better men , but he used Laud , Williams , Juxon and others as his highest secular officials ; in that capacity it could hardly be expected that they would not be the subject of the same Parliamentary criticism as were laymen . |
| 13 | Germans were resentful of France 's post-war attempts to keep them under close control , and it could not automatically be expected that they would agree to join European institutions . |
| 14 | He had not expected that they would be worshipped like gods , but on a world where technological ability excited only minimal interest , all of them were at a considerable disadvantage until they were able to prove themselves against local standards of performance . |
| 15 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 16 | As some staff had been in the Dean Centre for much of their working lives , it was only to be expected that they would leave Belford Road behind with some regret . |
| 17 | It was expected that they would interview him later today . |
| 18 | All in all , excitement reached fever pitch and it was confidently expected that there would be releases within the next few weeks . |
| 19 | It was expected that there would be 13 feet of water during the lowest tides . |
| 20 | It was not expected that there would be any effect on dot location by the shadowing . |
| 21 | In the first case it was expected that there would be a linear increase in the subject 's reaction time with increase in the number of bits of information required . |
| 22 | In the latter case it was expected that there would be a relationship between size of the memory set and the average response time which would tend towards linearity . |
| 23 | It was expected that she would show sympathy with the white settler minority associated with Ian Smith 's Rhodesia Front and propose a deal between him and the near-puppet government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa . |
| 24 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 25 | having expected that she would become mistress of the household and have much more freedom after her marriage , she was now disappointed on both counts . |
| 26 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 27 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |
| 28 | The demanding business of running for the presidency had shown Carter to be an exceptionally energetic , ambitious and intelligent politician and it was to be expected that he would want to be an activist in the White House — a president who left his mark and fulfilled the commitments he had entered into during the campaign . |
| 29 | Since the student is describing a series of very simple events which he has just been watching , it might be expected that he would produce a highly fluent and error-free description with no hesitations . |
| 30 | After all , it was expected that he would become a priest , like James . |