Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Lord Chancellor were to adopt open and public criteria for judges along the lines proposed , it would mean that for the first time candidates would know clearly what standards were required , and performance of the judiciary could be measured against them . |
| 2 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 3 | But the rudimentary nature of the ‘ Hooligan ’ style was not in any essential way different from the later youth fashions in the ‘ affluent ’ postwar era where the kids would put together their ‘ unprecedented ’ styles out of various permutations of available scraps such as tight trousers , baggy trousers , long hair , short hair , no hair , jeans , braces , T-shirts , string ties , broad ties , no ties , heavy boots , narrow winkle-picker shoes , long jackets , short jackets , etc . |
| 4 | ‘ Somehow , ’ he said softly , ‘ a Mercedes would seem more your style than a golf cart . ’ |
| 5 | And I 'm sure that many another highly-principled , left-leaning , apple-cheeked member of my beloved Groucho Club would know exactly what I mean . |
| 6 | It is proposed that the current library desk would stay where it is but that the quick reference material would be kept behind the reception desk together with the books for sale . |
| 7 | My granny would tell how her mother , Jane Blackley , née Sharp , would bring a basket of potatoes , eggs and ham , or how my grandfather and his brother-in-law operated an illicit mine and sold the coal to local farmers on the sly , for there were young children to be fed . |
| 8 | Whether companies would carry out their threat to emigrate is debatable , with the huge costs that it would entail . |
| 9 | They were afraid that if the Russian workers proved by demonstration that they were quite capable of managing their own affairs the workers of other countries would ask why their countries were not being governed in the same way … |
| 10 | Despite hopes that Sun would think up something warm and friendly to call them , the things have been dubbed Sparcstation 10s — small improvement over the Sparcstation 3s they might have been — in recognition of Sun 's tenth birthday , which it celebrated earlier this year . |
| 11 | Indeed , although she is now nearly ninety , one senses that Lady Amory would do almost anything in her power if she thought it would benefit Knightshayes , the garden she created with her husband , Sir John Heathcoat Amory , after the Second World War . |
| 12 | There had been a current of antipathy to the strict Calvinist view of the child throughout the seventeenth century ; and the concept that , given the right environment and the proper course of education , compassion and benevolence , the essential goodness of the child would triumph over its propensity for evil , already had a longish history . |
| 13 | Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village , and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions . |
| 14 | A consistent sceptic would doubt even his senses until reason approves them . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said , ‘ the Molesworths would turn up their noses at anything too fancy . |
| 16 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 17 | Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink |
| 18 | It was agreed that the JNA would call off its alert and Croatia 's specijalci would be demobilized ( but not disbanded ) . |
| 19 | The idea was that each member of the team would pass on his particular skill to colleagues . |
| 20 | To part with that money at this moment would wipe out my future . |
| 21 | The sail would revolve around its man once for every two circuits of the island . |
| 22 | ‘ He said it was ten to one the Huns would fly over our field , since the two-seater was on reconnaissance and they 'd want to take a picture or something . ’ |
| 23 | On 23 June , Charles and Louis sent envoys with final offers : the Frankish heartlands should be divided three ways , but Louis would give up his claims to the Franconian lands west of the Rhine , around Ingelheim and Mainz , while Charles would yield his claims to the region between the Charbonnière Forest and the Meuse . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister , John Major , offered support during a visit that ended yesterday but said British troops would continue only their ground operation . |
| 25 | It was only after they had offloaded the stock that the dealers would find out their teamleader had bought up large quantities of it himself . |
| 26 | I thought that rain would stay off you know . |
| 27 | He knew what Doctor Rice would say when he told him : ‘ You must be mad . ’ |
| 28 | Any moment now they expected that the Collector would make up his mind to do something about it . |
| 29 | In those days , the sweat would fall off my hands and I 'd hear it hitting the floor . |
| 30 | ‘ Only a really special person would help out someone they barely knew like this . ’ |