Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 2 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 3 | We would be delighted , and I expect that would blight his future even more , but it is essential that we have a mechanism to check on what is happening so that there is information and a body to which people can bring their grievances so that matters are properly set out and , more important , rectified before damage is done . |
| 4 | If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on . |
| 5 | The capitalist system had to be unchained and the conditions created that would allow it to flourish . |
| 6 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 7 | It would help to reduce the caseload and so permit the conditions of the Patient 's Charter to be met and would make it possible for consultants to be more involved in the routine care of patients , both emergency and elective , and so diminish the responsibilities of junior doctors for service commitment . |
| 8 | In the note she said she was on her way to Pollensa as arranged and would phone him later . |
| 9 | I am also inclined to imagine that would say something like that . |
| 10 | Universal services would be available with a level of resourcing that would permit them to give appropriate support to individuals within a common overall structure . |
| 11 | She had just told him she was tired of waiting and would find someone else . |
| 12 | For the time being he would not merely stay but would redouble his efforts to understand . |
| 13 | What would you differentiate that would give you X ? |
| 14 | Francie , especially , she loved and would help her aunt gladly to mend his clothes . |
| 15 | Accordingly , he believes , as do many other polytechnic directors , that by giving their institution charters to award degrees and other qualifications within carefully defined limits , substantial savings in time and resources would result and their distinctive approach to higher education would be affirmed and would find its fullest expression . |
| 16 | This was an ambitious objective , but it was 1971 and Robert McNamara had been President of the World Bank for three years , long enough to begin to realize his goal of a leap forward in Bank lending that would take it from $1.1 billion in 1967 to $11.4 billion in 1980 , his last year in office . |
| 17 | The Rover closed right up , blatantly harassing him into making one mistake that would give them the excuse to stop him . |
| 18 | But of all Koresh 's dubious activities it was gun dealing that would bring him in to conflict with authority . |
| 19 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |
| 20 | If you do n't know other families nearby , though , you could find out if there 's any local interest in starting one by putting a notice up in your health centre , local nurseries , mum toddler groups , schools and shop windows — anywhere mums regularly go and would see it . |
| 21 | The kind of software niches Solbourne would go after would require lots of CPU power , I/O and memory but still be small enough to be unattractive to an HP . |
| 22 | This could not exactly be a straight substitution : to attempt that would involve something like a category mistake . |
| 23 | He said that he could not imagine conditions arising that would make it possible , stressed the collective nature of the democratic movement and said ‘ I can not forever play this dual role of amateur politician and writer . ’ |
| 24 | In Chester one shop had one copy left and would save it for me if I could get there that afternoon . |
| 25 | He called up Mairi Ban and her friends from the clachan , to rehearse the coronach , the song of praise and mourning that would follow his coffin . |
| 26 | This therefore was entirely the work of Stirling , Brunel and Burn , although Stanhope and Roberts agreed to concur with what the others wrote and would add their signatures . |
| 27 | Jan Moynan , 50 , joined London Transport in 1974 when she was bringing up her children and wanted shift work that would leave her free after school hours . |
| 28 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
| 29 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 30 | There 's so much that they could learn that would help them in their job . |