Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he would & would advise them strongly to support me . |
| 2 | But in ( 5 ) there is no " and then " sense ; and here seems to mean just what the standard truth table for & would have it mean — namely that the whole is true just in case both conjuncts are true ; hence the reversal of the conjuncts in ( 7 ) does not affect the conceptual import at all . |
| 3 | He said the oil would either be absorbed by the booms or would stack up behind them , stopping it from getting downstream . |
| 4 | But even having said that , er it is still performing in my view or would perform an extremely valuable er service in terms of taking out the A fifty nine through traffic . |
| 5 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't believe that any of the three could exist , or would want to exist independently , for the synthesis is absolutely perfect , the balance so delicate , that the next step up could only be Rapture and Heaven . |
| 7 | That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York . |
| 8 | What made it all so difficult was that , though practically no one had had a good word to say for Hereward , no one could or would pin down that dislike into a form which could prime a hatred violent enough to kill him . |
| 9 | Of course , there may be those who would argue that the entrenchment of the middle ground in power would be a good thing that would lead to moderate government and stable policies , but let them not argue that it would also be fair or would give the majority of people what they wanted of government . |
| 10 | According to this view , de Gaulle was calculating that his resignation would produce a groundswell of popular annoyance with the parties or would give the politicians an opportunity to display their full incompetence — either of which outcomes would lead to de Gaulle 's rapid reinstatement , this time with a popular mandate to create the kind of constitution that he favoured . |
| 11 | There was no suggestion that this order would be impossible for the husband to comply with or would cripple his business . |
| 12 | The court has to be satisfied that there are substantial grounds for believing that , if released on bail , the defendant would fail to appear for trial , would commit an offence while on bail , or would obstruct the course of justice . |
| 13 | Scott expects ‘ pockets of horror ’ among those who hate sport or would do not relish a stadium at the foot of the garden , but he senses excitement generally . |
| 14 | Perhaps Rachel did too , or would do when she had had time to work it out . |
| 15 | I like to tell others about what I do or would do at work |
| 16 | The Business as now carried on does not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of any other person ( or would do so if the same were valid ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Harry Martin … the word 's out that you 're interested in how he conducts his business at the moment , and of course that must cause untold problems , or would do if you were n't able to separate your professional and personal life . ’ |
| 18 | What I done on that night was no more than any other police officer does or would do in the same situation . |
| 19 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 20 | If the exclusion is for a fixed period which would bring the aggregate exclusion in any term to more than five days or would involve the pupil missing a public examination , the governors or LEA may order the reinstatement of the pupil and the head teacher would be bound to comply with the direction . |
| 21 | Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime . |
| 22 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 23 | If Merton 's ‘ partner ’ adopted a character , he would refuse to accept it , or would decide he 's rather they were something completely different . |
| 24 | Whether the US would help her or would decide to take her place were the questions which the next Administration would have to decide . |
| 25 | Buskers played in the streets ; hawkers shouted their wares ; women met and gossiped ; kids played , as I had done when younger ; and of course nothing could , or would stop Glaswegians going to a match on Saturdays , especially to a game between the ‘ old firms ’ — Rangers and Celtic — either at Hampden Park or Parkhead . |
| 26 | The second argues more generally that since we have made mistakes , or would make them in imaginary similar circumstances , we do not know now . |
| 27 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 28 | This had also featured strongly in the campaign of former Californian Governor Jerry Brown , whilst Clinton advocated a " play or pay " model whereby businesses would either offer health cover to their employees or would pay mandatory contributions into a national health insurance fund to protect those without cover . |
| 29 | But the vast majority of such sentences would either not fit into the story ( message ) meaningfully , or would alter the story to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 30 | But he was still a very long way from knowing enough to judge the value of what each of them had chosen , or would choose to tell him , and what they would , for differing reasons , see fit to suppress . |