Example sentences of "[det] [conj] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 2 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 3 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
| 4 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 5 | The seasoned fighter would be well aware of this and would take precautionary counter-measures . |
| 6 | He had told Amy none of this but would have happily confided had she shown the least interest . |
| 7 | The bank 's card record of the meeting with Mr. Colin Perry on 9 March 1983 states , after referring to a possible mortgage facility of up to £5,000 : ‘ and we have told him that we would be pleased to consider this but would require security , probably in the form of a second mortgage over his house . |
| 8 | The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research . |
| 9 | Do you know how much that would cost ? ’ |
| 10 | And we priced from from what the customers told us what they wanted , and then we would tell the customers how much that would cost , we got a feeling for the support for certain initiatives . |
| 11 | It 's hard hard to say how much that would have helped the situation out there I mean it definitely would have helped in some degree , but I mean there was still all the oil that was present on the platform in the separators except those which were left under pressure all that would have had to burn . |
| 12 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 13 | And then see what that how many that would make . |
| 14 | The majority of queries fall roughly into two categories : 1 ) ‘ I have done x and y has gone wrong ’ or 2 ) ‘ I would like to do such-and-such and would appreciate your advice ’ . |
| 15 | And then he snared them — not too many : as many as he wanted and not as many as would frighten them all away or destroy the warren . |
| 16 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 17 | Mr Jack Meredith , chairman of the AMA 's public transport committee , said that while bus patronage was declining prior to deregulation , the Tyson report showed that the fall in journeys was between 100 and 200 million more than would have been expected . |
| 18 | Even so , it is a great deal more than would have been credited to a bird even a few years ago . |
| 19 | Their dealings for clients at premium prices realised £1,378,892 more than would have been obtained if the shares had been sold later . |
| 20 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |
| 21 | Kim 's mother took this idea further by making some of the activities given to Kim those that would involve her helpfully with the baby . |
| 22 | ‘ I am retribution , created to carry out the task of destroying those that would threaten the security of the Seven Planets . |
| 23 | The rule applies in all preconsonantal environments including those that would have a long vowel in monosyllables ( fricative and voiced obstruent environments and liquids ) , except apparently before [ s ] clusters ( as in hospital ) . |
| 24 | On this issue , Hwang and Mai ( 1988 ) have shown that if the home firm 's conjectures were more ( less ) competitive than Cournot , the effect of the quota is to raise ( lower ) domestic prices relative to those that would have prevailed in the presence of tariffs . |
| 25 | Correlations calculated this way are generally smaller than those that would have been obtained by correlating the averages but because they do not average out the variance from different subjects they provide a more realistic assessment of the size of an effect for any individual subject . |
| 26 | The result is that every ledge , from those that would take a small tent to those that a modern rock climber would blanch to see , is packed with birds . |
| 27 | We urged the Government to quicken the pace of its pedestrian review of these old permissions and to take powers to enable planning authorities to extinguish without compensation those that would cause an unacceptable level of damage . |
| 28 | The example used above draws upon models of the Diamond ( 1971 ) -Stiglitz ( 1979 ) type in which arbitrarily small search costs change outcomes substantially from those that would prevail with zero search costs . |
| 29 | Thomas Good [ q.v. ] , master of Balliol , thought him ‘ one of the most pious ingenious men that ever I was acquainted with ’ , while to the anonymous friend who wrote a preface to A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation , he was ‘ a man of a cheerful and sprightly Temper … very affable and pleasant in his Conversation ’ , although he was so full of his vision of God 's love and man 's felicity that ‘ those that would converse with him , were forced to endure some discourse upon these subjects , whether they had any sense of Religion , or not . ’ |
| 30 | Resources were obtained from central government under the 1952 Town Development Act and the 1961 Housing Act which subsidized the importation of an over spill population , but these were far less than would have been provided to a designated New Town where all infrastructure costs would have been borne by central government . |