Example sentences of "would [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) .
2 Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever
3 They would not on any account join hands with Lucifer .
4 On the other hand , he would not for any money have delegated it to anyone else .
5 More importantly , the Fellowship gave me the opportunity to study a subject of my choice at a university of my choice : so ( who would not at that time ? )
6 Adams stated that he intended to continue his recent discussions with some Protestants in Northern Ireland but would not at this time involve leaders of the two principal Unionist parties .
7 On the one hand , there were those who , once the prospect of redundancy had been raised , were reconciled to early retirement and to a greater or lesser extent relieved at leaving work , although they were attached to their employer and would not in all probability have left prematurely of their own volition .
8 Anecdotal evidence suggests that CATS have not sought out local-government co-operation : they have implemented little that would not in any case have occurred .
9 In the early months of 1914 the Unionist leaders prepared for this desperate throw , and the plan was only abandoned when the " mutiny " at the Curragh showed that it was unnecessary , for the officers would not in any case agree to coerce Ulster .
10 Many narrow lanes and yards , including those in Darlington , are desecrated with yellow paint where parking would not in any case be very sensible or even desirable .
11 That would not in any way restrict the paper 's right to print whatever it wished in the rest of the paper .
12 I suppose , thought Fenella , that I was rather innocent to think that we could get in so easily , or that the Robemaker would not in some way guard his secrets .
13 He started to lack confidence at the end of last season , but who would n't with that defence .
14 And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far .
15 It was the kind of story that she would relish but with her blunt ways one could never be sure she would n't at some time let the cat out of the bag .
16 I think I would respond by saying that I would n't in any sense dispute the need to try to prevent things getting to that point .
17 At some later point in time in this scenario ( especially with the mechanical and then electronic production and reproduction of representations ) , cultural facts would become so pervasive that they would come to challenge ‘ natural facts ’ for hegemony , and would even to some extent constitute the norm .
18 I would then at any stage have found it difficult to believe in the cosmic Christ in whom , for her , lies the key to the solution to the world 's affliction and the alienation of women .
19 The particularly high rate of loss of manufacturing jobs in the UK and the consequent problems for inner cities and manufacturing regions would therefore on this reading be in part due to the relatively fragile development of Fordism , which means that certain manufacturing industries had remained relatively backward and therefore less competitive .
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