Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been secure , certain of her facts , her life built on the reality of the past , and now things were all tilted , wavering , with a man she did not know issuing orders that would take her towards a place she had no desire to visit . |
| 2 | The campaign , she explained , would press supermarkets to find non-Faroese suppliers and would seek the support of the public and the British fishing industry . |
| 3 | The scheme will help fund many organisations that would like to provide care but have been hampered by the set-up costs of training staff and making the premises safe . |
| 4 | Finally , and unwittingly , they created nine holes that would tax any player to the utmost . |
| 5 | A bee has 5000 facets and would see flowers rather as they might appear in a pointillist painting . |
| 6 | What molecular geneticists — among them Sharp — have now discovered is that one of these families does in fact have some of the hallmarks of a transposon , and moreover has special properties that would tend to promote its expansion in succeeding generations . |
| 7 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 8 | The Post Office discovered that the treatment of VAT caused some problems and would have welcomed further explanation of this matter in FRS 1 . |
| 9 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 10 | In the last decade of the nineteenth century there were a number of quite different moves to create new disciplines that would transcend the limitations of the old approach to the study of Nature . |
| 11 | If your marriage lacks sparkle , if you would like to know how to improve your relationship , or you have had serious problems but would like to save your marriage , the centre can be of help . |
| 12 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 13 | Carnival would mostly use leased airliners and would share flight codes with Iberia . |
| 14 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |
| 15 | It has in general avoided strategic issues that would help to identify needs and to assist in co-operation with local authorities ( National Audit Office , 1988b ) . |
| 16 | Personally though I do n't mind hefty boots and would prefer to feel the greater support around my ankles offered by other boots in the High Country range . |
| 17 | They felt the scheme would only create additional problems and would send more cars into Skerne Park which has already been earmarked by the county council as an accident blackspot . |
| 18 | If these new inputs had been in a form that small farmers in marginal areas could practically use , it could be hypothesised that the resulting extra incomes would encourage soil-conserving investments and would take the pressure off farmers to over-exploit the environment . |
| 19 | As the mosaicist had to understand but not devise geometries it is likely that he could amend illustrated motifs but would copy , as a whole , the arrangements suggested for a mosaic . |
| 20 | I will resist any moves that would mean Darlington losing control of its health services . ’ |
| 21 | Democrats in Congress have already introduced competing proposals that would reduce American dependence on imported oil by encouraging conservation and alternative fuels . |
| 22 | The architects of the Constitution were accordingly intent upon constructing political mechanisms that would allow for the essential minimum level of government without encroaching on their hard-won liberties . |
| 23 | I only keep freshwater tropicals and would like to say how I enjoy the articles by Bertie Gesting . |
| 24 | Once again he thought how privileged he was as a policeman , given a special dispensation to walk into other people 's houses — whether rich or poor , criminal or victim — and ask intimate questions that would have led anyone else to be punched on the nose . |
| 25 | CDU conservatives and the party 's right-wing Bavarian ally , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , have strongly opposed any changes that would lead towards a ‘ multicultural society ’ . |
| 26 | One possibility would be a statutory reformulation of Rylands v. Fletcher shorn of the qualifications and defences which so emasculate it now , perhaps on the lines of the Restatement , which imposes strict liability on one who carries on an ‘ abnormally dangerous activity , ’ but this would be open to varying judicial inclinations and would give rise to considerable uncertainty for a very long period of time . |
| 27 | In recent months they have even hinted at getting the Russians — who supply much of Ukraine 's oil dirt-cheap — to raise economic barriers that would force it to give way . |
| 28 | The problem of the poorest was that they could not afford such rents as would bring an adequate return for builders and property-owners , unless they were crammed at very high density in properly which received minimal repair . |
| 29 | The look the two men exchanged spoke more volumes than would fit into any book . |
| 30 | The Minister said that the Government are waiting for certain European directives , but failed to mention that the Government are blocking several directives that would assist workers in my constituency . |