Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her known associates are all deceased , although a sighting which has not been discounted would put her in the company earlier this year of Hawk-That-Settles , a Navaho medicine man and dealer in controlled substances . |
| 2 | ‘ And then , ’ he added , whispering and grinning , ‘ if that ever was to happen — which it wo n't — the birds that have never been caged would kill 'em . ’ |
| 3 | This could allow the court , as in the Goodwin case , to order a reporter to reveal his notes so the company whose information was leaked would know who to sue . |
| 4 | Reformers were seeking to integrate working-class adolescents into the ‘ common good ’ by means of an educational programme which it was hoped would lead them to internalize the community perspective and , therefore , use it as the criterion for evaluating their own wishes and responses . |
| 5 | The 11 countries attending the meeting agreed on a Saudi Arabian proposal for a voluntary 5 per cent production cut by all member states , which it was hoped would reduce their collective output by just over 1,000,000 barrels per day , to 22,300,000 bpd . |
| 6 | Experience convinced her that the man who was drunk would lecture them on the futility of dying , a theme prompted by the first mention of hospices . |