Example sentences of "would [verb] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was for them to place special devices at these loci -devices that the regular maintenance crews would think were innocuous parts of the complex of delicate wiring . |
| 2 | This authority has been doubted because of the conflict that would arise were the receiver and the directors to have different views on whether an action should be brought and also on the handling of any counterclaim . |
| 3 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 4 | Well they would buy Were a a breed of men , as far as I know , used to wear what they called moleskin trousers . |
| 5 | The only other places somebody who 'd joined the Army at sixteen would know were Army places . |
| 6 | Is what he feels the same as what we would feel were we holding him ? |
| 7 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 8 | They are as agile as goats on their spindly legs , and can be seen grazing on cliff ledges which you would swear were inaccessible to anything without wings . |
| 9 | Dire harmonic confusion would result were the bass to be mingled with the upper parts . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is the only word processor on the Mac that we would use were it not for the fact that no other software speaks its format . |
| 11 | Erm , as I 've said before , I have reservations about whether a much increased figure about above the County Council 's er proposal could be accommodated within Ryedale District Council , and I if the figure above that is proposed I would suggest that the extra is accommodated within the new settlement , which I presume the ar argue answer you would have expected from Ryedale , erm Barton Willmore 's figure is based on an assumption that they believe that within Ryedale there is a capacity to increase past building rates , I would refute that , erm the building rates in Southern Ryedale I would suggest were abnormally high , because of the development of Clifton Moor airfield , the North Western part of the Southern Ryedale district , sorry South Western part . |
| 12 | Few farm workers leave the land because they dislike the job itself ; on the contrary many would return were it not for the poor pay and prospects . |
| 13 | Christie 's cover lot also failed to sell : Lord Leighton 's ‘ Moorish Garden : a Dream of Granada ’ was left unsold at £340,000 ( estimate £400–600,000 ) ; questions concerning its condition ( what would happen were the wax lining to be removed ? ) and opinion that it was a work not from his most marketable period seem to have dampened enthusiasm . |
| 14 | The main disadvantage of a Schedule E income tax charge is that it arises before the managers realise any cash from their shares to pay the tax , and that the benefit of indexation , which would apply were the gains to be subject to capital gains tax rather than income tax , will not be available . |
| 15 | The need for a special provision , its likely application , and the interests it would serve were all discussed . |
| 16 | It arises directly out of the " no conflict " rule , of which it is a logical consequence ; if a director can not keep the benefit he would obtain were he to take advantage of his position , he will not be tempted to take advantage . |
| 17 | The only people in whose company she would sit were those who came to Sunday lunch and were also waiting for Montaine 's return . |
| 18 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |
| 19 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 20 | In short , they possess qualities that some myopic adults would argue were the unique contribution of ‘ Literature ’ . |