Example sentences of "[indef pn] would [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And someone would think of the tower — eventually . |
| 2 | Nobody would dream of trying to lubricate an engine with water , so the water-based slipperiness of snow and ice must be capable of vast improvement . |
| 3 | Because motor cars did n't go at great speeds and nobody would dream of taking a motor car to Edinburgh when the railway was there and could get you in Edinburgh within three quarters of an hour . |
| 4 | Nobody would dream of suggesting that only a man can understand male issues . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody would think of trying to dictate to you . ’ |
| 7 | No it 's not it 's qu it 's quite disgraceful and nobody would approve of that and the co th th th th the Army if they got hold of anybody on that basis , they would court martial them immediately and they 'd be very severely dealt with . |
| 8 | Like the pelagic trilobites , individual graptoloid species are very widespread , which is what one would expect of an animal with the wide ocean as its habitat . |
| 9 | Their search led , by the middle of the 1940s , to a compound , 2:6-diaminopurine , which had effects in mammals and chicks ‘ about what one would expect of a substance which interferes with nucleic acid metabolism in some way ’ . |
| 10 | The paradox is that restorers are now making as much fuss of these ephemera as one would expect of older and more permanent works . |
| 11 | Merulo , as one would expect of such a prolific instrumental composer , included in his second book of motets ( 1593 ) 7 per concerti e per cantare , and after his death were published two remarkable Masses , on Giaches de Wert 's madrigal ‘ Cara la vita mia ’ for two choirs and on Andrea Gabrieli 's ‘ Benedicam Dominum ’ itself a three-choir work — for three . |
| 12 | Instead of focusing on this interdependence , as one would expect of a truly dynamic theory , Williamson discusses the efficient resolution of contractual problems that are associated with given techniques of production . |
| 13 | Accordingly , the rate of turnover of a portfolio investing significantly in futures may quite legitimately be much higher than one would expect of a portfolio investing solely in stocks and shares . |
| 14 | No one would think of hoarding a year 's stock for such a free tipple . |
| 15 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 16 | Justifying the railway deficit in 1980 , for example , the chairman maintained that ‘ no one would think of talking of the deficit of the armed forces or of the fact that our state educational establishments show a deficit … ’ |
| 17 | You see that one would sort of |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I enclosed my note to Aycliffe within that , so that no one would know of his coming . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , she did , and I think she hoped something would come of it — well , so did I. But when he met Angela he was just bowled over by her . |
| 20 | It was a long way to drive on the off-chance that something would come of it . |
| 21 | Hardly anybody would think of Richard Wilson or Wright of Derby for instance they 'd think of Turner or Constable . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , he asked Ranulf to learn what he could from his new-found paramour though , privately , he believed nothing would come of that . |
| 23 | I looked at the old man calmly sitting on his mat and hated him , knowing — knowing myself — that nothing would come of this . |
| 24 | Gencor 's chairman , Brian Gilbertson , put it bluntly : ‘ If the present Gencor did not already exist , no-one would dream of joining Engen , Genbel , Malbak , Sappi and the mining business into a single conglomerate . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He 's precisely what anyone would expect of a drop-out Phys Ed basketball-playing retard , ’ Ellen said scornfully , ‘ by which I mean that he 's a jock with the brains of a dung beetle . |