Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the fact that no one in their right mind would nickname that woman ‘ Sexy ’ , I would have recognised her voice . |
| 2 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind Would development of the site these sites amount to encroachment into the countryside ? |
| 3 | The roof would cave in . |
| 4 | But even if it were , the attempt would misrepresent the character of higher education . |
| 5 | But in court the Judge Mr Justice Aldous heard claims from the Home Office that broadcasting the interview would distress relatives and friends of the young men who were murdered . |
| 6 | Several squads or whole companies of the Chapter would quest for lost worlds and for planets posing a potential menace to the Imperium , as well as for any alien redoubts within imperial spheres of influence , so as to sterilise those . |
| 7 | Already many experience difficulties in getting to their GP ; having to change to a more distant practice would disadvantage them further . |
| 8 | Somehow we managed , and the director asked if I thought there was any chance of the weather worsening so that the boat would heel a little more . |
| 9 | Mrs Woolf presented the issue primarily as one of access to justice , explaining that incorporation would short-circuit the lengthy process of taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg [ which usually takes a minimum of five years ] . |
| 10 | What effect would delaying the choice make ? |
| 11 | And what effect would cutting down all these tree have on the environment ? |
| 12 | He led others to assume that soon world-dazzling poetry would catapult from his head as it had from those of other English boys : Lennon , Jagger , Bowie . |
| 13 | He laughed a lot and his laugh would boom down the dale . |
| 14 | Given the high expenses you could suffer should disaster strike just before or while on holiday , and the relatively low cost of buying adequate cover , only a fool would book travel arrangements without taking insurance . |
| 15 | Industry argued that such a requirement would stymie its competitiveness , and that , in any case , changes in emissions from existing plants would only ever be small-scale . |
| 16 | But there is no doubt players outside the top bracket would back strike action all the way . |
| 17 | Sometimes the machine would boom along , growing and expanding with heroic speed ; then strangely it would halt and slump . |
| 18 | they were n't actually saying anything , then probably the plan would sort of go ahead and , and , and then you might find that you know half of you did n't actually go . |
| 19 | The draft drawn up by the Yeltsin team would enshrine his emergency powers to run matters of state at the expense of parliament . |
| 20 | If Japanese women were to continue having children for the rest of this century at their 1989 fertility rate of 1.57 , Japan 's population would inch up from today 's 123m to 126m in 2005 . |
| 21 | What real difference would £250 make to us ? |
| 22 | 8– What difference would fitting an HC car type vacuum advance and balance weights to a LC Range Rover engine running on four star petrol and re-timed make ? h . |
| 23 | One could not rot peacefully and harmlessly , in such a neighbourhood : the airy seeds of debility would Boat too easily over the garden walls . |
| 24 | Because by no stretch of the imagination would Ven ever come to love her ! |
| 25 | Either move would impact margins . |
| 26 | Only through industrialization would independence from the West be maintained , as the internal weaknesses of China and its consequent loss of territory had shown . |
| 27 | A checker that did not have wether in its lexicon would flag wether as an error ( correctly or not ) , but one with a comprehensive dictionary would fail to do so . |
| 28 | She also stored food in there like a hamster , and sometimes , when least expected , her head would snake back inside her covering and the crunch of crisps or the slurp of a boiled sweet could be heard . |
| 29 | The desire to be everything for somebody , the yearning for ultimate closeness , reached its lunatic peak in the sublime schizophrenia of ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ ; ‘ if I was your one and only friend would U run to me if somebody hurt U even if that somebody was me ? ’ |
| 30 | Critics , educationalists and sociologists tried in vain to explain the appeal of a show in which the birth of a puppy would rate as the event of the week . |