Example sentences of "[verb] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they won it would have been a ‘ great day for Britain . ’ |
| 2 | Because of this , it was felt , it presented Anish Kapoor in a position of such seniority alongside all the other three that if he had n't won it would have been more embarrassing that if he did . |
| 3 | I did n't know it would sit up . |
| 4 | I do n't know it would have on the date actually . |
| 5 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 6 | The new company promised it would provide a better service to the North , including a news service specifically for South Durham , Teesside and North Yorkshire . |
| 7 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 8 | He doubted it would add up to much , though , just another of her lads , the orange or the green . |
| 9 | ‘ I had expected it would take a little while just to organise your thoughts . ’ |
| 10 | They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation . |
| 11 | Warner Brothers responded by announcing it would bring Hollywood stars to Teddington Studios . |
| 12 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 13 | But according to the common understanding of neutrality , Uruguay would have been breaking its neutrality if in the circumstances described it would have started supplying one of the parties with militarily useful materials after the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 14 | They also maintained it would harm pub businesses and severely dent the services offered to tourists . |
| 15 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 16 | They say it would make journeys too uncomfortable for passengers and slow their journey times , making services uneconomical . |
| 17 | say it would start ju just re recap |
| 18 | The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester . |
| 19 | As they say it would have been all over the village the smell and everything it is wrong . |
| 20 | They say it would have been nice to have had discussions with the contractors before any action was taken.An officer will be on the site , first thing tomorrow . |
| 21 | I say no , I say it would have been harsh to give it . |
| 22 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
| 23 | And erm we used to kick this tin down the hill and er as I say it would roll down and we would all go and hide anywhere , back garden , front garden , over a wall , round a corner , anywhere like that you see . |
| 24 | Yeah If you could hear what she say it 'd make a difference I expect I 'd of gone for another vowel there , it you 'd gone for E it of been |
| 25 | Well I still think that well say you have a big massive thing and , and say it 'd take a hundred people mm er I suppose the bigger it is the more economical it is . |
| 26 | As the core cooled it would form a solid outer shell , and as this shell further cooled through the Curie temperature it could retain today the magnetic field of the remnant liquid iron core within it . |
| 27 | With Major announcing that Government support would now total £115 million as well as pledging it would underwrite costs , they hailed his enthusiastic involvement as their trump card . |
| 28 | If Wandsworth Council had succeeded it would have set a precedent for councils to take the NASUWT to court . |
| 29 | If this were the case in driving it would have important implications for peoples ’ ability to learn to avoid danger . |
| 30 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |