Example sentences of "would [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday trading , for example , is something that one would think was a national matter with the subsidiarity rule applying . |
| 2 | The last thing a cocky little man like Hatton would want was a kind of spiritual suttee . |
| 3 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 4 | The question of whether the queen would survive was not the only problem created by James V 's early death . |
| 5 | Second , that having worked hard in the acting profession all my life , the last thing I would enjoy was working the clock round every summer when I could be sunbathing and swimming in Bala Lake . |
| 6 | To Peggy Say , Anderson 's sister , it seemed that some particularly keen sympathy compelled North never to turn down her requests to see him , when all she would do was sit at his desk upbraiding him and complaining and crying ; and when all he could do was repeat , cryptically , infuriatingly , that the government was doing everything it could possibly think of . |
| 7 | When she did finally reach for the food , or lure , all she would do was lean over and rip off a piece , rather than step on to the glove . |
| 8 | One thing was certain , ethics or no ethics , if she ever ran over a cat again she 'd drive on , the last thing she would do was go and confess . |
| 9 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 10 | What she would do was write a note of apology , giving her name and address and telephone number , and secure it behind one of the Bentley 's windscreen wipers . |
| 11 | What he would do was lend Haynes 500 , on a very short-term basis . |
| 12 | What she would do was exit with as much style as possible , given the situation . |
| 13 | moving off the shelves and into the shop and , what we would do was erm deli people now do er , stock an order by computer and , and people like Sainsburys were doing that in the seventies , you know , and they would actually work over er work on erm data erm , from their computer and order er erm you know , okay , they 'd be an event at the weekend or something and they 'd , they 'd of , increase it or something , but they would technically work out exactly what the throughput of certain items were . |
| 14 | In this case , therefore , the problem was horribly compounded by the fact that the queen was as yet childless ; and the heir who would succeed was James duke of Châtelherault , head of the unpopular house of Hamilton and discredited former regent . |
| 15 | What would matter was how the Clause was interpreted . |
| 16 | And the shape Aldhelm would present was that of a man young by his step and pace , in a dun-coloured cloak wrapped about him against the rain , and with the pointed hood drawn up over his head . |
| 17 | The last thing they would expect was the obvious , it was a certain way to catch them flat-footed . |
| 18 | Although these actions could eventually lead to improved records management generally , the high cost in terms of staff involvement that would result was felt to outweigh the benefits that would be gained . |
| 19 | What was hoped would occur was a shifting of responsibilities from ‘ external ’ control to ‘ self-control ’ . |
| 20 | The room where the four senior and four junior counsel from Edinburgh would work was fitted out with several very basic trestle tables , not perhaps quite what members of the Faculty of Advocates are used to working on , but Alistair Bruce described them as very resilient people . |
| 21 | I therefore do not regard those authorities as affecting what I would conclude was the clear language of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1977 , that a statutory tenant remains a statutory tenant so long as he occupies the dwelling house as his residence . |
| 22 | It was a system of recruitment that was to enable the depleted population of Ulthuan to field mighty armies of citizen-soldiers well beyond what the declining population would suggest was possible . |
| 23 | What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment . |
| 24 | Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee announced that the government was ready to move ahead with the implementation of the agreement [ see p. 37765 ] ; the rate at which this would happen was , however , dependent on the ANC 's promise to suspend its armed struggle " and related activities " . |
| 25 | What would happen was by no means certain in 1216 . |
| 26 | Before the ballet started , an announcement was made in front of the curtains that what the audience would hear was the composer 's full intention , and not the orchestra playing incorrectly . |
| 27 | Yet the way the decade would develop was , with hindsight , reasonably clear from the outset . |
| 28 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 29 | If he accepted , then all it would mean was sharing some of his conclusions with Wishart . |
| 30 | The accused is guilty of unlawful act manslaughter if the responses to these questions are in the affirmative : " ( 1 ) was the act intentional ? ( 2 ) was it unlawful ? ( 3 ) was it an act which any reasonable person would realise was bound to subject some other human being to the risk of physical harm , albeit not necessarily serious harm ? ( 4 ) was the act the cause of death ? " |