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

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1 How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ?
2 For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being ?
3 How long would servicing take ?
4 Not only would the creature regenerate severed scraps of its body into new limbs , not only would gobbets of its substance give rise to more of it , but in some fashion — through the medium of the warp — its substance could remain connected together , could still function as a unit even when slashed apart .
5 Not only would Ulster be right to resist , but so would army officers who refused to enforce the decision of parliament :
6 Not only would working conditions and well-being be improved , but absenteeism may diminish and both productivity and quality be improved .
7 Not only would purchasers be preserving the province 's heritage , they would be gaining a worthwhile investment .
8 Not only would world markets benefit but EC taxpayers would not be asked to spend money in such a wasteful way .
9 Not only would jobs be provided directly , but there would also be additional employment generated in the components industry and in ancillary services .
10 We may presume that , if the events of 1989 had taken place in 1965 , not only would de Gaulle 's prophetic powers have been universally recognized , but as a result France 's influence in the world would have been dramatically enlarged .
11 This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing .
12 Not only would accommodation and compromise between these various interests be desirable , but also it may be that the best solution would be some alternative to a motorway , or some alternative route not already considered .
13 You know you would , and so would I. The Spider in the poem however , is not my Silken Self , but an altogether more Savage and businesslike sister .
14 What you would do for her , so would I.
15 So would I. But about these letters .
16 So would I. You need to be uncomplicated , maybe , to sacrifice yourself willingly .
17 If it comes to that , so would I.
18 The press , the TV and the radio would like to know what 's going on and , incidentally , so would I. Kersey does n't know , or he does and is n't saying . ’
19 So would I. ’ said Finlayson bitterly .
20 And so would Brown who , busy demolishing a sausage roll , observed through flaky lips : ‘ But it 's not necessarily what the relatives want . ’
21 Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy .
22 So would ICI 's caustic-soda and chlorine business , which supplies raw materials to EVC — a throwback to ICI 's vertically integrated days .
23 Not so would Léonie treat a letter .
24 Not only would Ulster be right to resist , but so would army officers who refused to enforce the decision of parliament :
25 There would be a scandal , Maurin and Joseph would lose money , so would collectors .
26 Just as some would pay for intelligence , so would others pay for the spirit .
27 So would Mary Freeman from Oxford East , who was deeply sceptical of Mr Heseltine 's efforts to cultivate grass roots support .
28 With the return of the clippie , pick-up time would be dramatically reduced , and so would fuel consumption , air pollution and driver frustration .
29 Just as scientists have developed special techniques for overcoming bias and artifact , such as the ‘ double blind ’ procedure , so would policemen have to invent concrete measures to overcome the problems they meet .
30 So would Mr Kinnock topple Thatchergate if he became Prime Minister ?
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