Example sentences of "would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 17 1988 , Computergram Number 930 reported that DEC would give IBM OEM pact for 3480s * * * Siemens and Nixdorf backed IBM-DEC-Hewlett-Packard alternative Unix plan * * * Network Equipment was in dispute with Excelan over acquisition * * * Wang would unbundle VS operating system . |
| 2 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 3 | If anyone cut themselves , he could smell the scent of blood and would scamper towards it . |
| 4 | The health of the industry in the longer term , and hence the degree of independence Britain would attain in military aircraft production , would depend on the outcome . |
| 5 | A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later . |
| 6 | This could only mean that , in time , India would attain a status equal to that of the white dominions . |
| 7 | If the attributes were the same , then simple inheritance would attain . |
| 8 | Hence , it was believed , the economy would attain maximum growth , to the benefit of all : hard work , self-reliance and respectability — which were in theory demanded of all , including employers — would benefit both rich and poor , morally and materially . |
| 9 | A star that is 1.4 times heavier than our Sun has a Schwarzschild radius of only 2 km , and if such a star were to shrink to this size it would attain a mean density of , far beyond the density of nuclei . |
| 10 | The system was seen to benefit the Soviet Union , whose oil and gas exports to Eastern Europe would attain high market prices . |
| 11 | With a cash transfer the recipient of government assistance would attain a welfare level as shown by . |
| 12 | Kinship , they believed , would contrast with the relations of production found in capitalist systems . |
| 13 | In these metaphysical realms things would have intrinsic natures and relational properties which would contrast with their intrinsic values just as in nature . |
| 14 | To start with the lowest common denominator , all sections of the Labour Party could agree that the object was to cement a good working relationship between the government and the trade unions , and thereby also to secure widespread political support , to develop a hegemony which would contrast sharply with both the Heath phase and the bitterness and disillusionment which followed compulsory wage restraint and ‘ In Place of Strife ’ in the late '60s . |
| 15 | This would contrast with both a ‘ realist ’ aesthetics of meaning and modernist formalism . |
| 16 | If the tip of one of them were damaged now , it would drip blood . |
| 17 | In the Airds ' duplex apartment I hung my raincoat over Tessa 's second mink with a malign hope that it would drip , which involved me in turning in my tracks after a minute or two to take the gesture back . |
| 18 | Morton saw that Leonard and Mrs Cohen were very close , and nothing emphasised this more than her willingness to take them and their friends out for meals , especially to a favourite Greek restaurant where she would be the life of the party , not least in singing , and encouraged by good wine which the restaurateur would ply them with in order to get the mood of the evening going . |
| 19 | He would ply a wealthy traveller with drink until he was besozzled , and then lead the unfortunate traveller up to his best room . |
| 20 | But while the DTI would override the Treasury , a new ‘ powerful Department of Consumer Affairs ’ would antagonise the DTI . |
| 21 | Treaty provisions would override the specific rules of the Common Agricultural Policy , unless a contrary indication existed . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on its true construction section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 did not confer on a minor who had attained the age of 16 an absolute right to determine whether or not he received medical treatment but enabled him , for the limited purpose of protecting his medical practitioner from prosecution or from any claim in trespass , to give consent to such treatment as effectively as if he were an adult ; that , although a minor of any age who had sufficient maturity might consent to treatment , his refusal to give consent could not overrule consent given by the court ; that in exercising its inherent jurisdiction the court would take particular account of the minor 's wishes , the importance of which increased with his age and maturity , but would override them where his best interests so required ; and that , having regard to the nature of W. 's illness and to the serious deterioration in her condition , her best interests required the court to direct her immediate transfer to and treatment at the new unit without her consent ( post , pp. 765G — 766A , H — 767C , 768F–G , 769G–H , 770B–D , 772A–C , D–E , 774C–D , 775H — 776A , E–F , 777F–G , 779A , 780B–E , G–H , 781B–E , H — 782A ) . |
| 23 | ‘ And you would override that belief ? ’ |
| 24 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 25 | Vice Chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls , declining to grant Venables the injunction he sought yesterday , said that to have done so would override the majority decision of the Spurs board , which had the right to ‘ hire and fire . ’ |
| 26 | Later they would inscribe the shells with questions put to their ancestors . |
| 27 | How grandly I would inscribe it … |
| 28 | They would thrive , and obediently they would unfold into their familiar selves . |
| 29 | They no longer felt , as they had previously , that there was unlimited time or that things would unfold and develop along the lines that they had unconsciously assumed they would . |
| 30 | A gridded forward viewscreen , framed with bronze bones , displayed in subdued ginger hues — metamorphosis of infra-red — the expanse of the arena and the vast closed petals of the dome which presently would unfold to let monsters out of its cave . |