Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [conj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would have therefore had an advantage and would have tended to replace the original macro-molecules . |
| 2 | Improved morale would also make possible organizational advances outside parliament , all linked to the issue of Ulster , and with the sights fixed firmly on the next election , an election that would make or break the Union , the Empire and Law 's leadership of the party . |
| 3 | They were not the sort of questions she could ask on so brief an acquaintance , but she was unable at present to think of an excuse that would allow her to get to know Veronica better . |
| 4 | Satisfactory tenants would at least keep the house warm and protected , as well as producing an income that would go a long way to meeting your expenses . |
| 5 | Yes , yes er whereas if there were independent trustees responsible to the regulator and they were properly trained , they would I suggest be able to smell out very quickly an malpractice and would have a group straight to the regulator , if only to call a stop for someone to have a look at it . |
| 6 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 7 | ‘ The students came up with a sound idea for an instrument that would give digital readings , which was developed by our technicians , ’ commented Paul . |
| 8 | And he pledged to lead an Opposition that would fill it . |
| 9 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 10 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 11 | He said , last year , that he would put together an administration that would include both Republicans and supporters of Ross Perot , the billionaire populist from Texas . |
| 12 | For instance , the conditions in which it becomes possible for an animal to perform an act that would bring it food become rewarding themselves . |
| 13 | I would n't call those highly inventive moves mere dancing ; they bordered on an act that would have had the best strip-tease artists in the country seething with jealousy . |
| 14 | It is not an attitude that would carry much weight in other educational circles , but it is easy to see its roots in the traditions of apprenticeship to a trade . |
| 15 | No matter what reservations Churchill might have entertained about the Atlantic Charter and whether or not freedom was meant to apply to colonial territories , the unworthiness of France to return to Indochina was soon to become one of Roosevelt 's fixed ideas on colonialism and an issue that would bedevil relations between all the Allied powers in Southeast Asia with the possible and ironic exception of the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Saigó himself volunteered to go to Korea as a special envoy , inviting an assassination that would provide justification , if any were needed , for a punitive expedition . |
| 17 | an eye as would receive from a heavy soul the dullest expression ; but it speaks every emotion of his animated mind ; it has more of the ‘ poet 's eye in a fine frenzy rolling ’ than I ever witnessed . |
| 18 | This in turn implied that the transition period was now viewed , not as a relatively short , chaotic time , but as an epoch that would develop its own laws of equilibrium . |
| 19 | Free day-care provision was , and still is , seen by many as an incentive that would attract women away from their proper caring duties . |
| 20 | And 69 Members ( including the tellers ) voted for an amendment that would have made permanent television conditional on the provision of such a channel . |
| 21 | However , it could all be thrown away if Labour was elected , an outcome that would risk the ‘ massacre of the innocent by the ignorant ’ . |
| 22 | ’ How unwelcome an epitaph that would have been . |
| 23 | What an event that would have been . |
| 24 | I outlined to him a scheme for an organisation that would provide the disabled with the cars they required in return for an assignment to that organisation of their mobility allowance . |
| 25 | I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’ |
| 26 | Like other writers at the turn of the century , Geddes and Thompson stressed the importance of women receiving an education that would fit them for motherhood , and of their choosing eugenically sound mates in order to ‘ beget supermen , of either sex , of course ’ . |
| 27 | The Maastricht Treaty on European union displays a commitment to an environment that would enable businesses to develop . |
| 28 | But not entirely — outside on Madison Avenue is a huge lifesize model of a red fire engine , the work of Charles Ray , who says he tried to make an object that would embody a fundamental sense of ambition , in the form of a child 's toy . |
| 29 | Well , at least no one could accuse her of dressing provacatively — it was hardly an outfit that would knock anyone 's eyes out . |
| 30 | She wanted him to hold her properly , to put his arms around her in an embrace that would shut out the world ; she needed to feel the hot , demanding pressure of his lips on hers in a kiss that would take away the nagging ache of uncertainty . |