Example sentences of "[conj] would [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would they clean the place themselves or would Alison employ a maid ? |
| 2 | Are there any special circumstances making legal representation desirable or would hardship follow if it was withheld ? |
| 3 | And now you 've asked the question — do you want Charles to be King or would Di be the better monarch — here 's your chance to answer it . |
| 4 | Would it be possible to re-use old programs written for conventional machines , or would users have to start from scratch and throw away their existing investment in software ? |
| 5 | Would Coker , Australia 's World Cup No 8 , be back for the Pilkington final on May 2 or would selection requirements 12,000 miles away take precedence ? |
| 6 | Is it a question of economics , because if they were more efficient , that is if they used less fuel to get a given mileage , is it a question of the companies involved being unwilling to put the money into the development costs , or would cars that are more efficient cost a lot more money to buy ? |
| 7 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |
| 8 | Nor would Harry go against Father 's dictates . |
| 9 | She could not face him before then ; nor would society approve of a private evening visit . |
| 10 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 11 | Nor would Sam Fawcett have ever upset the balance of nature in the dale because he was a naturalist and a conservationist by inclination . |
| 12 | Thus unexamined documents would not have to be taken into account in the retrieval evaluation nor would performance be based on the retrieval of the " best document " . |
| 13 | Nor would Trevor MacDonald . |
| 14 | And nor would i lead my company to be slaughtered , at their command . |
| 15 | Nor would Edwin concede more than a spineless encouragement that she be hopeful and humble in their work together . |
| 16 | What 's more , nor would Mrs Fry . |
| 17 | Chemical defoliants would not be used against crops , nor would producers be arrested or property confiscated . |
| 18 | Nor would Germany , if she were attacked by France alone , obtain more than the benevolent neutrality of Austria-Hungary . |
| 19 | Certainly , that expansion could never have occurred in a society organised into villages of co-operation ; nor would industries run by trade unions as workers ’ co-operatives and organised nationally have provided a basis for it , for the accumulation of capital with which to finance the crucial , secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution : that is , the establishment of a capital goods sector of the economy . |
| 20 | Nor would Georgiana . |
| 21 | Nor would Nevton any better understand that on a deeper level he had tried to force Hope into himself or force himself in Hope and , despite initial success , discovered a fierce resistance . |
| 22 | As the Big Man marched into Dartmouth at his amazingly fast pace of 4.3 miles an hour , the hundreds lining the roadside would have no idea of the agony he was in — nor would Botham dream of telling them . |
| 23 | Nor would King Hussein of Jordan , a man whom the Shah had constantly supported . |
| 24 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 25 | Nor would Britain escape . |
| 26 | Nor would adoption of a tariff obviate the need for economies , given that the Conservatives insisted upon severe retrenchment , whether combined with a tariff or not . |
| 27 | Nor would Tug be able to stop shrieking . |
| 28 | The United States declared that all non-humanitarian US economic support would be withheld " until the democratic process is restored " ; nor would action be taken on Romania 's bid to regain " most favoured nation " trade status , which would allow low tariffs for exports to the USA . |
| 29 | Nor would Raskolnikov 's poor mother and sister : ‘ but I 'm afraid , afraid — oh God he 's so strange . |
| 30 | High-speed centrifuges generate large inertial forces which are used to separate materials from liquid suspensions that would sediment only slowly , if at all , under gravity . |