Example sentences of "would [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Coke cans , once emptied , would aec over the heads of the audience .
2 I , I hope I 've covered the ground that you were hoping I would Chairman .
3 I thought you would Chairman , take it later I see a lot of hands up on the other side .
4 Would Alison like it ? ’
5 Would they clean the place themselves or would Alison employ a maid ?
6 Wives coping in these conditions were more likely to patronise fried fish and ready-cooked meat shops than would housewives with ranges or gas stoves .
7 Would Parliament cooperate ?
8 That was the sort of thing she would delight in saying , but would Harvey believe her ?
9 ‘ But why would Harvey kill me ? ’
10 What would Prebendary Porkadder think ? ’
11 Occasionally , as if he was trying to control it , he would exhale three times in succession , and the sound would be forced from his throat in rhythmic grunts : ‘ Aha aha aha ’ .
12 That would kind of be kept a bit quiet was it ?
13 So you would kind of know when you saw what colour th that it would be that
14 Every so often , someone would buck the trend : in 1982 Mr Kinnock was dropped from the slate , but kept his place .
15 I wish it would buck up and be Monday .
16 Any moment it would buck , toss her , white broken heap , on to the gleaming floor .
17 2 , Would Denis Faul deny that , in the events leading up to the conviction of the so-called UDR 4 , he passed information to the RUC , conditional upon the following points :
18 Would Mills Roberts wish to retain my services as the Brigade Piper or would he send me back to Achnacarry ?
19 To anyone who got Wednesdays Daily Telegraph — did it say when they would printing rules , details of players etc again ?
20 ‘ But why , ’ he asked eventually , ‘ would Moodie now kill himself ? ’
21 How would Germany be prevented from entering another major international conflict ?
22 Nor would Germany , if she were attacked by France alone , obtain more than the benevolent neutrality of Austria-Hungary .
23 He proposed on June 22 that the four allies ' rights and responsibilities should be extended for a period of five years after unification , and that only then would Germany have the sovereign right to conclude international agreements such as a treaty of membership of NATO .
24 The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) would harp on the same theme , announcing that ‘ Every week some incident shows that certain parts of London are more perilous for the peaceable wayfarer than the remote districts of Calabria , Sicily , or Greece , once the classic haunts of brigands ’ .
25 Would CPRW 's objectives , as stated above , be more likely to be achieved if Wales was regarded as a distinct ‘ zone ’ ( or region ) under the Agri-Environment Regulation ?
26 Would Reni seek consolation in the arms of his last daughter , or would he lose himself in wine ?
27 Where would Tod and I be without the toilet ?
28 So what would G of seven be , it would be three times seven minus two .
29 How , would G T I be one word ?
30 Earlier this month a bill began its passage through California 's legislature which would sentence touts , or scalpers as it calls them , to a fine of $1,000 or a year in jail .
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