Example sentences of "would [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time she walked by , children would rush to far corners of the playground shouting ‘ Agh ! |
| 2 | In 1973 I started investigating what difference the uncertainty principle would make to black holes . |
| 3 | From the beginning it was appreciated that local deaf organisations would object to home-to-home visits as intrusions on their pitch , rivalling their own money-raising efforts . |
| 4 | ‘ I would appeal to future employers to take the television programme Civvies with a pinch of salt , ’ she said . |
| 5 | CASS was also encouraging the development of part-time degrees , a policy which won an expression of DES approval for these and other CNAA efforts in this direction , since they would appeal to married women wishing to return to study ( and presumably helping to solve a shortage of school teachers ) . |
| 6 | ‘ By its very nature it would appeal to unemployed people , although it is not geared towards them . ’ |
| 7 | It was a bird that would appeal to popular sentiment ; indeed , Gould advocated its adoption as Australia 's national bird , and later used it as a motif on the covers of his Birds of Australia series , showing the male lyre-bird with the beautiful lyre-shaped plumes of its tail raised in courtship . |
| 8 | I decided that what with the big human-sacrifice convention in town , the cultists would be too busy to post any of the grade-A guards , and that the job would fall to Sleepy Joe and the Catnap Kid . |
| 9 | Firstly it would demonstrate to prospective freelance writers the type of material required . |
| 10 | I would refer to previous discussions and correspondence concerning additional accommodation requirements for Council Tax . |
| 11 | Why does he not acknowledge what his strikers charter would do to industrial relations ? |
| 12 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |
| 13 | Nizan was clearly showing the first signs of a defensive strategy that he would deploy to great effect throughout the remainder of his life . |
| 14 | The test was standardised on 344 children , aged between 3 years and 7 years 11 months , who were ‘ presumed by their teachers to have no handicapping conditions which would contribute to atypical language development ’ ( Lee 1969 : 7 ) . |
| 15 | It would be hard to dispute the desirability of any of these proposals , which would give to certain males the protection which they currently lack . |
| 16 | To be his friend , the boy would have Diniz , who would think him his cousin , and who would grow to gentle manhood in the vineyards of Portugal , and honour Tristão his father . |
| 17 | He also emphasises the ethics : ‘ Certainly if anyone were to advocate placing whale genes or elephant growth hormone genes into the genetic code of a human embryo , so that it would grow to sexual maturity at age six , and twice as tall … |
| 18 | The faster US troops can turn over responsibility for keeping the peace to Panamanian forces , officials said , the better the US invasion would look to Latin Americans . |
| 19 | I would stick to domesticated species , such as Goldfish or Koi . |
| 20 | In an attempt to impress , he would resort to extravagant gestures or issue bombastic claims — though these were restricted to his close circle of intimates . |
| 21 | Thus Hourcade felt that an artist could convey more clearly the real nature of an object by showing as many aspects of it as possible , and guided by intelligence rather than by his eye , would resort to geometric forms . |
| 22 | Mr Dunn said the firm hoped to create more jobs in the not too distant future , while Roddy Ross of Tecnomarine said the partnership between the two engineering firms represented a strengthening of relations between them and would work to mutual advantage . |
| 23 | Also conservation programmes involve potential clashes with landowners , politicians whose constituencies are adversely affected , forest contractors who would like to fell trees without official controls and so on . |
| 24 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 25 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
| 26 | It was a political culture which emphasised the democratic assumption that opinion was not merely of passing interest but an important guide to understanding how people would react to various policies . |
| 27 | Thus the Lucas workers proposed a range of " telecheric devices " which would react to human intelligence rather than absorb it . |
| 28 | He reassured shareholders that the TSB would in future focus on banking and insurance services for personal and small business customers under the name of TSB , while the troubled Hill Samuel subsidiary would return to traditional merchant banking , concentrating on fee-earning services . |
| 29 | Eventually , this group would move to other parts of the ground to watch the match with wives and girl-friends . |
| 30 | So , he grafted tissue from the posterior margin that would die to other parts of the chick limb to see if he could rescue the cells from death . |