Example sentences of "[conj] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He said he would & would advise them strongly to support me . |
| 2 | But in ( 5 ) there is no " and then " sense ; and here seems to mean just what the standard truth table for & would have it mean — namely that the whole is true just in case both conjuncts are true ; hence the reversal of the conjuncts in ( 7 ) does not affect the conceptual import at all . |
| 3 | That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York . |
| 4 | There was no suggestion that this order would be impossible for the husband to comply with or would cripple his business . |
| 5 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 6 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 7 | If Merton 's ‘ partner ’ adopted a character , he would refuse to accept it , or would decide he 's rather they were something completely different . |
| 8 | The second argues more generally that since we have made mistakes , or would make them in imaginary similar circumstances , we do not know now . |
| 9 | The argument is that we or others have made mistakes in the past or would make them in circumstances which , so far as we can tell , are not relevantly different from our present circumstances . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 11 | He either would n't give me a line or would say my line himself . ’ |
| 12 | What will or would cause something is not a cause , but only a possible cause or potential cause , until or unless the effect actually occurs . |
| 13 | Whether she 'd be alone , or would have someone waiting . |
| 14 | The wild females apparently did not recognise , nor would have anything to do with , these artificially-produced ‘ mules ’ even though to human eyes they looked perfectly normal ! |
| 15 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 16 | If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on . |
| 17 | His mind was elsewhere , exploring , recording , storing up scenes and experiences that would serve his work , even as the travel served his restless needs . |
| 18 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 19 | Lear , however , as he constantly complained , had not had training as an engraver ; and , in an effort to find a medium that would serve his publication without drawing excessively on his limited resources , he turned to the novel technique of lithography . |
| 20 | ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself . |
| 21 | A sluice gate was installed up the hill where the water that would create our power was diverted from the Meloch into the millpond , and another at the other end of the pond above the terraces at the back of Melin Cottage . |
| 22 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 23 | She did n't recognise any landmarks , so she went on again , keeping a sharp lookout for her ‘ pony tree ’ and for any other tree or open space that would tell her she was on the right path . |
| 24 | Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ? |
| 25 | Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ? |
| 26 | They did this over two weeks , but there was no means of knowing the energies of the neutrons , the essential information that would tell them whether they were from the fusion of deuterium and be the final proof . |
| 27 | He kept listening for sounds that would tell him Blackbeard and his henchman were in the vicinity . |
| 28 | And farther down the loch had waited the frigate that would escort it out to sea and stay with it , someone had told her , until it reached the safety of deep water . |
| 29 | While Ollokot was boisterous and full of daring , the young Joseph demonstrated the gentle , dignified nature that would distinguish his later life . |
| 30 | One more step and she would be confronted by its face — a face that would encompass her own death . |