Example sentences of "as [verb] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remark If we admitted 1 and -1 as primes we would lose the uniqueness we 've just obtained since , for instance , 7 = 1.7 = 1.1.7 . |
| 2 | With Major announcing that Government support would now total £115 million as well as pledging it would underwrite costs , they hailed his enthusiastic involvement as their trump card . |
| 3 | As fans we would plead with Morrissey to set the record straight . |
| 4 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 5 | Eventually , when this somewhat bizarre meeting ended , the judge made an order by which he purported to ‘ disallow such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the [ partial ] trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Muawad was quoted in the Syrian daily , al-Thawara , as saying he would work to promote ties with Syria . |
| 7 | A popular legend grew up that quoted him as saying he would run over his own grandmother for the president . |
| 8 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 9 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 10 | If tutors were not doing their job as required they would be reported to National Council and their accredition would be withdrawn , and Institute students could only be taught by accredited tutors . |
| 11 | But turn a corner and there the resort is , one of a number which have been built in the Pyrenees since the start of the 1960s at greater altitudes than the old , so as to lengthen what would otherwise be a brief and uneconomic skiing season . |