Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [Wh det] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The symptoms which follow this affection of the alimentary canal are exactly what one would expect . |
| 2 | They 're just what I would call my real hobby , ’ he confessed . |
| 3 | They 're just what you would expect to encounter on safari — except that the backdrop for these elephants is not the wilderness of Africa 's vast plains but the flower-bedecked veranda of a neat house . |
| 4 | These details are really what you would expect . |
| 5 | The books available were just what one would expect ; R. L. Stevenson , Charles Kingsley . |
| 6 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 7 | That is only what we would have expected them to do . |
| 8 | In any case , as Nora said , it 's exactly what they would be doing if they were still in funds ; and now , more than ever , they had to keep up their pretence . |
| 9 | That 's fine but sentence six Florence teased Dougal , and did so Brian too does n't sound right but notice that 's exactly what you would get if you could substitute the proform for a subject verb construction and then it would mean Florence teased Brian too . |
| 10 | You could be forgiven for remembering John Gould as a brilliant painter of birds — that 's exactly what he would have wanted . |
| 11 | I kept thinking to myself , Typical Jamila , that 's exactly what she would do , as if this were something that happened every day . |
| 12 | And he 's either going to say well that 's great , that 's exactly what I would suggest , or have you considered this , have you considered that , which is a great security when you 're starting . |
| 13 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |
| 14 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 15 | How far down the social scale the possession of seals extended is not known , but the carrying of personal identification tags is exactly what we would expect of such a minutely organized society . |
| 16 | A bush tree is exactly what you would expect it to be ( bushy ) , but at the right height for picking and pruning comfortably . |
| 17 | And , to make it all seem almost too good to be true the total number of possible W particles seen by both UA1 and UA2 is just what one would expect from the total number of proton-antiproton collisions that the two experiments have observed . |
| 18 | He says that before he died Mr Summerfield had said he 'd like his money to be used for a charitable trust — the gallery is just what he would have wanted . |
| 19 | A gradual shift towards a broadly social democratic position is just what you would expect to accompany a move towards a mass system . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's just what you would do . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 's just what I would have done . ’ |
| 22 | In some counts , a signal of distress but is attempting to solicit something but is usually what we would classify in our abstract concept of parental investment . |
| 23 | The defendant on being told this alibi must immediately amplify it under questioning , and can be ‘ gonged ’ for undue hesitation in answering or for any vagueness in answering ( he must not say ‘ I think so ’ or ‘ That is probably what I would have done ’ ) . |
| 24 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 25 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 26 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 27 | The statistics might be more easily presented , instead of small numbers being presented for the reader should he care , which is roughly what we would do . |
| 28 | Certainly when Jacob appears to have his assailant in his power , it is precisely what we would expect . |
| 29 | This is precisely what one would expect if the above evolutionary account were true . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's precisely what anyone would expect of a drop-out Phys Ed basketball-playing retard , ’ Ellen said scornfully , ‘ by which I mean that he 's a jock with the brains of a dung beetle . |