Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 2 | BILL Clinton last night reassured America 's allies and enemies that foreign policy would remain firmly in President Bush 's hands during the transition of White House power . |
| 3 | The proclaimed ‘ non-alignment ’ of Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos may have been reassuring to a certain extent to the non-communist five , but neutralisation as a strategic concept had been anchored on the assumption that the Indo-Chinese war would end with the survival of non-communist , neutral regimes in South Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos and that the overall balance of forces in Southeast Asia would remain decisively in favour of the non-communist states . |
| 4 | Most of us , asked to name some famous scientists , would think immediately of physicists Newton and Einstein , for example . |
| 5 | However , I would think twice about bungee jumping . |
| 6 | This would sometimes draw Laura in and she would spring tigerishly to Bernard 's defence , especially if some long dreamed of project of his was under threat through lack of cash . |
| 7 | Meanwhile at New Bradwell , boys would rush home from school to collect lunch baskets , place them in hand trucks , and then run to the messroom ( over one mile ) , so the meal was plated just before the men came out of work . |
| 8 | Contrary to interpretations of the Tunguska object as a friable , underdense comet , Sekanina favours a bolide with a very high strength , arguing that the object would explode instantly on disruption . |
| 9 | Anyway , I would stay away from Brigade H.Q for the time being . |
| 10 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 11 | The convoy would stay overnight in Loznica , in Serbia , and make a fresh attempt to reach Cerska today she said . |
| 12 | Many of these machines were indistinguishable in appearance from human beings , but not all — one of his stories described a race of intelligent motor-cars which , once parked for the night , would zoom away to sex orgies . |
| 13 | The majority of teachers in state schools accepted as inevitable that boys and girls would behave differently in school , would find different forms of knowledge congenial , would achieve differently and aspire to differing occupations . |
| 14 | In an ideal world , the commission ( like national governments ) would behave more like Japan 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry in relation to industrial innovation . |
| 15 | I thought that this charity would appeal particularly to parents who have seen the effect it can have on family life when their child has to stay in hospital . |
| 16 | It was the truth , but she knew it sounded evasive and that evasiveness was not a quality that would appeal much to Guido . |
| 17 | However , it was always intended that UDCs would act primarily as catalysts , providing a framework within which the prime agency for urban renewal — the private sector — would thrive ( DoE , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | The enmity which arose between France and Britain in 1840 was a bonus , since it reduced the likelihood that the two countries would act jointly against Russia on a future occasion . |
| 19 | Persons act not as they would act probably in life , but enable to do the , to , but enable to author to do a bit of writing . |
| 20 | Mr Gummer rejected appeals from consumer groups and Opposition parties for a separate Ministry for Food that would act independently of farming interests . |
| 21 | One paper , the Warrington Guardian , misrepresented the situation by suggesting that these reductions would fall exclusively on Risley . |
| 22 | Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true . |
| 23 | IBM , which had revenues of $60bn and profits of $6bn last year , shook Wall Street last week by warning that earnings forecasts for the third quarter and for the whole year would fall significantly below expectations . |
| 24 | According to Sir Julius , the investigation would concentrate particularly on allegations relating to a discretionary fund used by former Prime Minister Rabbie Namaliu and his Finance Minister , Paul Pora . |
| 25 | From now on she would concentrate solely on work . |
| 26 | Mr Ford also forecast that Railtrack , the proposed state-owned track authority , would be less likely to invest in improved services , because it would have no commercial incentive , and would concentrate only on safety . |
| 27 | ‘ Who employed there would know most about Hauser 's day-to-day work , the orders he gives ? ’ |
| 28 | Not only that , he would know well in advance the order of the programme , and consequently would have altered his training dramatically to account for the extra distance . |
| 29 | At least he would know then about Mark , realise that at least one person in this world knew him for what he really was . |
| 30 | Pretty soon the law would know more about Mahoney than his own mother . |