Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [adj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 2 | In a related development the Council had voted on Dec. 15 to continue to apply Czechoslovak federal law in the Czech Republic , but that in case of a conflict between Czech and federal law the former would prevail . |
| 3 | Of these , Busia was to make his mark later : an Oxford graduate , the first African to be taken into the Colonial Service ( in 1942 ) , he was exactly the type the British would have preferred . |
| 4 | ( Arguably had they carried out their duties properly when they first came across Rodney King the same would have applied ) . |
| 5 | Surely this night the unexpected would happen , surely she had summoned up the unexpected . |
| 6 | Had this been the case of life or death the latter would have happened , ’ said Mrs Countley , who plans to contact Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster about the issue . |