Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 2 | They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation . |
| 3 | Marc was saying , ‘ When I gave you that place on your twenty-first birthday , Peter , I foolishly imagined it would help you settle down as you seemed to have no idea what you wanted to do with your life . |
| 4 | Why do you think it did n't fail er early on as a strike , er a as the fact it was only predicted it would last two or three weeks but it was obvious at the time it was gon na go on . |
| 5 | If she could only cry it would help , but that seemed impossible too . |
| 6 | Like Ulysses , I had , by my standards then , made un beau voyage , but I did not think it would result in my being content to stay at home thereafter . |
| 7 | They hope to sell the house as soon as possible but did not think it would go to a Vic Reeves fan . |
| 8 | The band could probably have signed to IRS but Hallin does not think it would have been the right move . |
| 9 | And no , she did not think it would jeopardise the marriage although he would , no doubt , be miffed at missing out on the latest freebie to the investing classes . |
| 10 | ‘ … I did not think it would come so quickly , ’ he told Tom Jones on 4 November . |
| 11 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 12 | Winston Churchill ( C , Davyhulme ) said : ‘ If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix I do not believe it would get through the House of Commons . |
| 13 | Freer use of the telephone is being extended to prisons with a lesser security category ; men in Maidstone can not believe it would jeopardize security there if it were available . |
| 14 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 15 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 16 | The fact that the share price had been 60p did not mean it would return to that level . |
| 17 | She just felt it would help to establish some boundaries , and just then she felt they both needed space to get over the incident . |
| 18 | And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting . |
| 19 | I just thought it would have saved time . |
| 20 | If he did not agree it would mean the end of his mission . |
| 21 | ‘ If you found someone such as I have just described it would let you off the hook . ’ |
| 22 | I felt an almost unbearably painful sense of beauty and order — painful because I could not imagine it would prevail . |
| 23 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 24 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 25 | The Wheelers live in a modest terraced house on the edge of the village … no one ever guessed it would become millionaires row . |
| 26 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |
| 27 | If that ignorance still exists it would have to be dispelled . |
| 28 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 29 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 30 | Who ever thought it would come to this ? |