Example sentences of "we would [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By doing that , we would eliminate the 12-month delay .
2 Dick and I are ordinary people , but I think we would make a great team and dream up something far more interesting than most of the claptrap stuffing up the biography departments of bookstores .
3 But if we had that aim in mind exclusively , we would choose a different theory of adjudication , which we might call " unilateral conventionalism " or just " unilateralism . "
4 We learned Fascist songs , and at the end of each term we would hold a gymnastic display for the Fascist authorities and our parents .
5 Although we would urge a total abandonment of an age limitation , those of us wearied by years of banging heads against , not so much the walls , as the balloons of officialdom ( for , eventually , walls splinter a trifle , whereas balloons bulge inwards and then return to their old shape ) , understand that we must count our blessings in small twopenny-pockets .
6 If the figures are more marginal then the Policyholder should be offered the possibility of a constructive total loss or the option of having the vessel repaired whereupon we would pay the insured value less the Policy Excess subject to proof being provided that the vessel has in fact been repaired .
7 At In Salah we would leave the north-easterly dog-leg , no longer with the wind in our faces , and join the trans-Sahara route from Algiers , along with tankers for Tamanrasset , and tourists for West Africa and beyond .
8 Despite the complex set of influences , we would emphasize the high rate of accumulation as the most fundamental factor behind the decline in profitability .
9 The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it .
10 ‘ It would take up to two years to collect the information and in the meantime we would restore the old rates , ’ he said .
11 In fact , we have repeatedly said that we would retain the current Code of Practice on peaceful picketing which limits the number of pickets .
12 First , we would stress the immense size of the resource .
13 If you have savings of £5,000 , we would ignore the first £3000 and work out the additional payment on the remaining £2000 at £1 for every £250 which would give an additional weekly payment of £8 .
14 Therefore we would expect a forward contract and a financial futures contract with the same specifications to have the same price .
15 We would expect a Labour government to sweep away all those laws which conflict with the right to union recognition , which conflict with the social charter , and which conflict with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation , such as banning unions at GCHQ , Cheltenham , and banning collective pay bargaining for teachers . ’
16 If a child is exposed to two languages simultaneously , we would expect a single system at first which gradually becomes divided into two under the influence of linguistic input from two separate systems .
17 If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that .
18 Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the .
19 From what has been said , we would expect the heaviest proportionate effects of the government 's many methods of reducing employment to fall on the North .
20 In long-run equilibrium , we would expect the real return on a firm 's investments to equal its cost of capital , i.e. r= p .
21 Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology .
22 We would expect the best response from people who are re-evaluating their lives — a change of work , home or relationship — allowing their beliefs to be re-considered , ’ says Henry .
23 Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’
24 In such a situation we would expect the Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee to step in and examine the proposals .
25 But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’
26 But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime .
27 Even so , we would expect the resulting market valuation to pay some attention to the underlying assets since the reason for buying investment trust shares is to participate in the income and capital gains resulting from the managers ' investment performance .
28 If the restrictions are valid we would expect the generalized variance from the restricted and unrestricted models to be approximately the same .
29 All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history .
30 We would expect the slow migration of hot-spot swells across continental interiors to have a significant impact on landscape development through , for instance , the disruption and diversion of drainage systems .
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