Example sentences of "would [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until it was developed , prawn hatcheries would remain at the mercy of factors beyond their control . |
| 2 | The application of community sanctions would remain at the discretion of sentencers , though there would then be a price to be paid in terms of consistency of application . |
| 3 | Greenpeace workers had begun packaging the 425 tonnes of waste , dumped in the Sibiu area of central Romania , for safe transport back to Germany and said they would remain at the site until the transport promised by German Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer arrived . |
| 4 | She wanted to be able to sit there and be like them , to sit there and sip Coke and not to have to worry about whether she would laugh at the right moments . |
| 5 | But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors . |
| 6 | He had made her whole body feel as though it would explode at the slightest caress from him . |
| 7 | Provided that the Pitot tube is small compared with the length scale of variations of the flow , u and p can be interpreted as the speed and pressure that would exist at the position of the Pitot tube in its absence . |
| 8 | You 're too big now , more 's the pity — and , in any case , I do n't think it would answer at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | The actual wedding was to be held the next day , and then Changez and Jamila would stay at the Ritz for a couple of nights . |
| 10 | The whole FI family would stay at the Sheraton in Buenos Aires and the Hilton in Sao Paulo while , between races , a majority of the drivers would take a week 's break at Guaruja on the Brazilian coast near Santos , an hour or so away from the smog-filled city of Sao Paulo . |
| 11 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 12 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |
| 13 | There we would gaze at the massive steam engines , all ready connected to their huge waggons , to make a quick getaway to The Market Place at dawn on the following day . |
| 14 | ‘ But if we move against him openly , and him the King 's friend , the King may call out all the clans against us , with the promise of our land as prize for them when they 've destroyed us ; and we 've unfriends enough would jump at the chance . ’ |
| 15 | My present house model leaves at the end of the month and there are plenty of girls who would jump at the chance . ’ |
| 16 | I assumed McIllvanney had sent a message to Massachusetts asking Sammy to telephone as soon as he reached port , and I was certain that Sammy would jump at the chance of three months ' extra salary , and if he did then Ellen and Thessy would similarly earn their small fortunes . |
| 17 | She did not add , He would jump at the chance of someone filling that post , so that he would n't be asked to take the children off Rose 's hands until she is once more fixed up with someone who could manage her unruly crowd , as well as herself and the house . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , here you are , carrying around a box full of gold , do n't you think anyone in their right minds would jump at the chance of pinching it ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I would jump at the chance of a move because it would be big step in my own career at 20 , and a financial boost for Bangor . |
| 20 | There were several youngsters in the chorus playing understudies who would jump at the chance of having a stab at Sonja . |
| 21 | This would fall at the Middle to Upper Coal Measures boundary near to the base of the Westphalian D. In the Coalbrookdale coalfield in west Central England , the so-called ‘ Symon Fault ’ is recognised as a strong angularity , probably within the Westphalian C sequence . |
| 22 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 23 | As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 . |
| 24 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 25 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 26 | They dived into the sand did n't they , so he would survive at the back of the |
| 27 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 28 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 29 | Her solicitor , Mr Rohit Sanghvi , added : ‘ The award reflects the outrage which this jury felt and which any decent person would feel at the treatment of my client . |
| 30 | But sometimes a double bill would show at the Ritz and nowhere else . |