Example sentences of "would [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In an effort to meet its 1991 inflation target , the government in October 1990 concluded with the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) and the Employers ' Association a pact for the following year : average wage increases would be below 13.4 per cent ; the working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours ; the minimum monthly wage for industrial and farm workers would rise by 15 per cent , as would most pension and social security payments ; labour disputes were to be resolved through negotiation rather than industrial action .
2 But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem .
3 To cover herself now would be like doing a striptease in reverse , and would only emphasis her uncomfortable consciousness of her bare flesh .
4 For a brief moment it seemed that the rain still hesitated , that it would only patter dispiritedly on the dust-filled gutters where its drops rolled like quick-silver .
5 That would only distress her .
6 Would the lack of charitable registration impair non-taxable status totally , or would only investment income be taxable as in the case of non-profit making social clubs ?
7 If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky .
8 All the other main opposition parties except the conservative Popular Christian Party ( PPC ) boycotted the elections , arguing that the CCD would be an insubstantial body which would merely rubber-stamp presidential decisions .
9 Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way .
10 ‘ At table he would just glower at his food and refuse to talk .
11 This is particularly true of many 2∗ hotels which under less stringent classifications , would easily rate 3∗ .
12 decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room .
13 He would generally lunch in one of the clubs to which he belonged ( by the end of his life , he was a member of the Athenaeum , the Garrick , and the Oxford and Cambridge ) although there were occasions when he would take guests to his favourite restaurant , L'Etoile , in Charlotte Street .
14 Would more Government money in the home stop young girls going out to engage in prostitution ?
15 Failure to keep their friends in office would rapidly doom the Cunningham interest in these burghs to extinction , as councillors and trades voters started to reconsider their former loyalties and to listen to the argument of the Haldane partisans that the colonel had the ear of government .
16 Is early detection possible and would early treatment help ?
17 Of course , if everyone knew their partners inside out , there 's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth .
18 His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions .
19 When the member of the team finds any colour she makes the sound of her team so that cows would always moo .
20 ‘ He said it was inevitable , that bad blood would always surface in the next generation , and that the only way he could hope to save me was to chase the devil from my soul before he got a proper hold . ’
21 A thorough grasp of molecular biological techniques is essential , and experienced in DNA sequencing and cDNA cloning would be advantageous , as would further knowledge of biochemistry or pharmacology .
22 For example , the experience of members of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , who in both their own estimation and that of observers were adjudged respectable married women , shows that family misfortune , particularly in the form of sickness and unemployment , could quickly plunge a family into poverty , whereupon the wife would probably resort to strategies similar to those of her poorer sister .
23 She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it .
24 To know I know would probably distress Jenny .
25 Despite his difficulties Barry did not indicate that he had revised his decision to seek a fourth consecutive term as mayor in the November 1990 elections ( although conviction on a felony charge would automatically debar him ) .
26 Collectivism would eventually lead to totalitarianism — fascism and communism are collectivist ideologies — but it would also surface in the bureaucratic thinking of Western governments and multinational corporations .
27 The type of new installations that will be allowed if the paper becomes law are farm shops , sport and recreation facilities for activities such as clay pigeon shooting , BMX bikes and wargames , car parks , refreshment areas and educational centres would also burgeon .
28 So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed .
29 But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders .
30 In order to secure the payment of tribute , servicemen would often resort to taking hostages ( amanaty ) .
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