Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only someone would invent ski-tows that could be folded up and packed away after the season . |
| 2 | Nobody would stand surety , so bail was n't granted again . |
| 3 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 4 | No one would accuse Mr Healey of retiring modesty . |
| 5 | consider that in certain circumstances one would expect laterality scores to correlate with overall accuracy scores , they favour the use of an index of laterality that is independent of accuracy in the sense that the values which the index might take within the total range of values possible is not " constrained " by any given level of accuracy . |
| 6 | At very high temperatures , particles would be moving around so fast that they could escape any attraction toward each other due to nuclear or electromagnetic forces , but as they cooled off one would expect particles that attract each other to start to clump together . |
| 7 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 8 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 9 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |
| 10 | It was not what one would expect Aunt Margaret to have chosen for herself . |
| 11 | Whereas one would expect the lexicon to be organised in a way that facilitates the access of items , one would expect working memory to be organised in a way that facilitated the discrimination of competing hypotheses . |
| 12 | If songs have been evolved by males because of competition for mates , one would expect males of polygamous species to have more complex songs than monogamous species . |
| 13 | One would expect works on Religion , Philosophy and the English Classics in the library of a scholar but it is surprising to find that there are only a handful of books in Gaelicin the collection of one of the translaters of the Holy Scriptures into that language . |
| 14 | As one would expect campanology has played a part in family life , and is shared with husband , daughter and grandsons . |
| 15 | The model used to allocate traffic between competing services is , however , very sensitive to relative prices , so , one would expect increases in Eurotunnel 's costs to give rise to a lower market share and hence to lower revenues . |
| 16 | The one organization which one would expect workers would see as being part of their own world ( one of the ‘ us ’ ) would be trade unions . |
| 17 | Zeus 's head is lost , but seems to have been turned to his proper right , and on this , the side of good omen , one would expect Pelops to stand , as he does in fig. 124 . |
| 18 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
| 19 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | One would expect author — illustrators to provide some of the best examples of text — picture unity and they do . |
| 21 | With the low volume of piston-powered traffic one would expect fuel to be expensive — and it is : 70–75 pence per litre . |
| 22 | But to be at his table , one would think South America were really there , to see a servant come in every day with ten or a dozen pine apples , as much as he can carry . |
| 23 | ‘ No one would think people could be so stupid … . ’ |
| 24 | Thus , one would advise sufferers to deal first with their addictive disease through a 12 Step programme of recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships and later , while in the second stage of recovery , come to deal with other behavioural issues through whatever method may be individually appropriate . |
| 25 | Well erm , children , people with children who do n't know how to behave , or , or at least use your house as a sort of running ground , erm , not living in London , er , er , I have lots of guests that come from London , sort of using it as , as much as one would exercise dogs , and , and let their children r run , like round the house , and then er , I 'm sort of saying things like , oh you 're , you 're very , very sensible not to have decorated until after your son 's older . |
| 26 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 27 | Like all civil wars , this one would pit brother against brother , each with a recognisable " right " on his side . |
| 28 | This list represents a normative , desirable combination of all the good things which one would like broadcasting organizations to do . |
| 29 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 30 | If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next . |