Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that anyone would expect them to shirk that if if we have n't |
| 2 | So I said , if I got pregnant what would you want me to do ? |
| 3 | A lot of my mates said if they were going out with someone and they got pregnant they would run . |
| 4 | In September 1814 he declared in his diary that when he became rich he would hire figure painters . |
| 5 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 6 | This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared . |
| 7 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 8 | Executions are easily exaggerated , but the Encomiast 's statement that many English leaders were killed with Eadric , and that of the later Evesham chronicle that many of his soldiers died too , are quite plausible , given that he would have had powerful henchmen whom it was doubtless politic to eliminate . |
| 9 | Given that it would be unsatisfactory to have a single offence , then the question is how best to divide up the forms and degrees of physical violation and of sexual assault . |
| 10 | Secondly , the prevention of mental handicap is obviously not completely attainable , given that it would be difficult to eradicate such a wide range of causes , but the reduction of the incidence of mental handicap clearly is a sound proposition . |
| 11 | Because the novel is written mainly in dialogue , a spurious impression was given that it would be easy to adapt . |
| 12 | In addition , opinions are canvassed on whether there should be bands of scale charge ; whether there should be lower charges for older cars and a special regime for classic cars ; whether the distributional impact of the change would be inequitable , given that it would be revenue-neutral ; and whether free car fuel should continue to be determined by engine size . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) said in Committee that if the Minister is persuaded that it may be possible to establish a funding council at a future date , why does not the Bill allow the Secretary of State to establish one , given that it would require primary legislation . |
| 14 | Given that it would remove the functions of the Secretary of State for Scotland to a Scottish Parliament , the hon. and learned Gentleman would presumably accept that there is no role for a Scottish Secretary of State , or Scottish Prime Minister to use his terminology , within the United Kingdom Cabinet . |
| 15 | The STV system , it is argued , could threaten the essential link between an elector and his MP given that it would necessitate in rural areas constituencies of massive size . |
| 16 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |
| 17 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |
| 18 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |
| 19 | BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union . |
| 20 | But they made clear it would not be a factor in the final decision about where to place the Trident work . |
| 21 | It allows that the existence of a sensible thing need not consist in its actually being perceived but , rather more weakly , in its being perceivable ; in allowing this it would certainly be more acceptable to common sense . |
| 22 | Yeah cos these that 'd make another one would n't it . |
| 23 | These were the sorts of technical problems I began discussing with my colleague Mike Stewart in the early days of the chick work , when it became clear we would want to try to make this type of measurement . |
| 24 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 25 | Cos if any of our family went up some she would know some she would like , Michael and , and er Rob live away , she says they 're not her sons |
| 26 | ‘ No , I promised Sabine I would n't . |
| 27 | In the first place all they would do would be to redistribute ownership ( probably ) amongst existing groups . |
| 28 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
| 29 | Though purists may object , the performances of all four concertos on the disc spring to life , fast movements as well as slow , and will equally delight those who would normally choose an account on modern instruments . |
| 30 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |