Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allows that the existence of a sensible thing need not consist in its actually being perceived but , rather more weakly , in its being perceivable ; in allowing this it would certainly be more acceptable to common sense . |
| 2 | Speaking against the movement C Hughes argued that by passing this they would ‘ be voting for pacifism , and there would be no patriotic Stratford society after that ’ ( SE 3 August 18 ) . |
| 3 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 4 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 5 | Apart from looking ridiculous I 'd feel uncomfortable , and if you feel uncomfortable , you do a rotten show . |
| 6 | ‘ If ever Kinnock did start sounding posh it would count against him . ’ |
| 7 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |
| 8 | But basically as far as you are concerned you can get that sort of dividend yield , which is brilliant because i y as a tax-payer if you can te ten percent erm the , the fund is written as a unit trust and you 'd be paying seven you 'd be paid seven and a half percent on that one , so which one would you choose ? |
| 9 | And er a and then they 'd go , they 'd , they 'd , if the mother was strong healthy and everything was going alright they 'd probably leave it another month before they went . |
| 10 | If the family were getting better you would be able to see it . |
| 11 | This suggests the significance of specialist workers in two possible ways : either preventing compulsion where there was insufficient risk to the patient or others , or persuading those who would otherwise have been sectioned to enter hospital informally . |
| 12 | ‘ I was getting worried we 'd have to send out a search-party . ’ |
| 13 | I mean they put something round the mother 's tummy and they can see the heart beat beating , whereas we , if we wanted to know if the baby was alright and er it was n't getting distressed you 'd just put a , a cloth on the mummy 's tum and put your ear down to it and hear it that way . |
| 14 | Would doing that which would be acceptable to you , |
| 15 | " We 'll join them together , " said Hazel , " and while we 're doing that I 'd like to talk about what he said . |
| 16 | My dad had a problem saying broken he 'd probably say , Broken . |
| 17 | We would hope that by doing this we 'd actually mobilize the whole country to get down into London and to protest at the House of Commons against the closures in the Health Service . |
| 18 | Ponyboy feels he should become tough to fit in with his friends , but soon realises that by doing this he would never achieve a better life . |
| 19 | And then when it was all over , you threw open the windows and you vacuumed , and as likely as not while you were doing this you 'd find someone left asleep behind the sofa . |
| 20 | In doing this it would have been helpful to include profitability or value added as the independent variable but in all countries there were many companies which did not know or would not release these figures in relation to individual products . |
| 21 | At this time of day London seemed serene : an entity detached from the fates of the scurrying thousands who would soon pour on to its streets . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a casualty-faking — you know , making sure we would know what to do in such a situation . ’ |
| 23 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 24 | Ian Yarlott , business unit manager for Intuit 's UK arm , claims that the company spent two and a half years making sure it would be a genuine British product rather than a hastily localized version of the US product . |
| 25 | After less than a half-hour of sitting alone he would grow restless , scatter his books untidily about the table and disappear outside . |
| 26 | I passed my June copy to a friend who lives in Norfolk feeling sure I would be able to replace it but without success , and I was away on holiday for the August copy . |
| 27 | Zambia had dreaded Tammuz seeing hir battered flesh , feeling sure he would be sickened by the thought of others having been intimate with hir so recently . |
| 28 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 29 | She smiled , feeling thankful she 'd take so much trouble over her make-up — but who would n't when they were going out with Silas ? |
| 30 | Fabia felt it might be a touch cruel to laugh at him again but , feeling certain he would run a mile if she took him seriously , she was a little nonplussed about how to answer him . |