Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] would [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to be a safe name , innocuous , nothing that would draw attention to the past . |
| 2 | There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat . |
| 3 | So everything that would hold water was put on the stove and er he did and then it they took it out to the |
| 4 | Following an appeal by UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar for a cease-fire over civilian-populated areas , this was accepted by both sides and the secretary-general now sought to widen it into something that would give effect to the Security Council resolutions , call for an end to the fighting altogether . |
| 5 | Tests are being banned all over the US by the courts and legislatures , something that would make sense if they were as vicious and ineffectual as the press says they are . |
| 6 | When he came in the evening — it was by this time unthinkable that there should be an evening when he did not come — he might let slip something that would make sense of this new move . |
| 7 | The cordoned-off area , quite common in Russian hotels when special guests were being entertained and there-fore not something that would cause suspicion , was served by its own lift from the lobby . |
| 8 | He persuaded the Board in 1970 to recognise that a new kind of qualification was now required , one that would give status to the more ‘ creative ’ approach to drama in schools . |
| 9 | But if we think of our target as anything that would improve survival chances , the argument still works . |
| 10 | Yes er er made an important point , er the application is not in front of the Committee most important that will be says anything that would prejudge consideration of that application . |