Example sentences of "[conj] it would " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 2 | Instead , the new provisions will operate only until passage of a draft law on strikes , which itself bans such industrial action where it would endanger ‘ lives and health ’ . |
| 3 | One will enable employers to take the union to court , where it would risk losing its immunities , if it fails to repudiate the action . |
| 4 | I would be fed into the police computer , where it would join the details already stored by the hundreds of other crossings we had made . |
| 5 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 6 | The simple square pool offered the sight and sound of moving water where it would be most enjoyed when sitting outside , and the raised brick surround helped create a focal point with planted pots and a huge , stunning hosta . |
| 7 | It says Heron is considering extending the maturity of its debt and redesignating it into ‘ A ’ portions , where interest would continue to be paid , and ‘ B ’ portions , where it would be deferred . |
| 8 | ‘ I decided that if she had run away she must have gone somewhere where it would be very difficult to find her . |
| 9 | … it is not difficult to imagine a case where it would be essential for employers embarking for example on a new technical process to invite existing employees to agree to some reasonable restriction on their use of the knowledge they acquire of the new technique ; and where it would be essential for the employer to terminate , by due notice , the services of an employee who was unwilling to accept such a restriction . |
| 10 | She fixed her bike among some bushes where it would n't be seen from the lane , and then ran along the grass-verge to the gap in the trees where the path began . |
| 11 | Satellites should detect small irregularities in the gas , where it would eventually form into galaxies . |
| 12 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 13 | Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works . |
| 14 | It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes . |
| 15 | Clearly , this is another aspect of the European playing field where it would be desirable for some levelling to take place … |
| 16 | Thomas did n't look immediately cheered , but might relay some of that , Nicholas thought , where it would help matters . |
| 17 | It broke in the tabloids first , where it would do the most damage . |
| 18 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 19 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 20 | Six months ago under their previous name Tombstone , I happily tagged their demo Worst Tape Of The Week and hid it under a large pile of old papers where it would n't offend anyone . |
| 21 | But outside her room , Mildred was just a common frog who had strayed into the school , where it would be unlikely to occur to anyone ( except the wicked person who had done the deed ) that it might be a second-year witch under an enchantment . |
| 22 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 23 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 24 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 25 | Every division of the army had a prearranged town or village where it would gather and wait for further orders . |
| 26 | Belief , in this sense , facilitates a more abstract acceptance of conformity ; it leads us to conform in the absence of immediate personal advantage from doing so ( or even where it would be to our advantage not to do so ) . |
| 27 | The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services . |
| 28 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 29 | The complete list taken from those early writers allows us to see that the low vowel appeared in environments where it would not appear now — for example , before voiceless fricatives and voiced stops . |
| 30 | You told them to dump the body in the bay , where it would n't be found for a while . |