Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 2 | There must be enough of the right food , the temperature and habitat must be right , there must not be too many other animals that would parasitize it , or kill it for food . |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co is crossing itself to ward off any demons that would give it the same misery Sun Microsystems Inc is going through moving from Solaris 1.0 to Solaris 2.0 . |
| 4 | The libraries with the most extensive training programmes were most likely to be the ones who had clearly identified their training needs , and who were looking for ways of either increasing or maintaining the effectiveness of their training by developing methods that would enable them to get round the restriction of decreasing staff ‘ mobility ’ . |
| 5 | According to a representative of the Public Citizen group , the Administrat-XXXX ion 's present proposals " fail to offer substantial , enforceable guidelines that would protect US citizens from contaminated meat , pesticide-covered fruit and vegetables and toxic air and water " . |
| 6 | In each of the corners of the civilised world , men and women pondered the flawed and tragic conditions of human life and attempted to find solutions that would enable them to survive the suffering that flesh is heir to . |
| 7 | Donald Hardie , the Scottish director of the IoD , feels the problem stems from the education system , with girls being discouraged from studying the subjects that would get them on to the business ladder . |
| 8 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 9 | So you got ta get away and underneath and I have n't got the rer rer the socket spanners that would do it , so well I have n't got a spanner let alone a socket ones that would do it ! |
| 10 | Minsky 's ‘ supreme organizer ’ view must be a hierarchical one , for that organizer alone has the model of its relation to other modules , and it must therefore always be in control , because no other module has the model of relationships that would allow it sometimes to be in control ( in the way a heterarchical view requires ) . |
| 11 | There was a certain ritual quality in this exchange , as though Melanie had stumbled on the secret sequence of words that would lead her safe over the sword-edge bridge into the Castle of Corbenic . |
| 12 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 13 | The clamour of her heartbeat filled the silence between them , as she struggled to find the words that would send him away forever . |
| 14 | She felt that her heart would burst with the ache of love , and searched in her mind for words that would bind him to her and bring him back . |
| 15 | As he 'd hobbled back through the sleet a tiny part of him had hoped her gratitude would include an embrace , or at least a few words that would let him know she felt something for him . |
| 16 | To suggest the hidden but omnipresent power of the TARDIS Brachaki wanted a system of lights behind the roundels that would make them glow and pulse while the ship was in flight . |
| 17 | Sometimes , before he drank the fourth or fifth glass of Côtes-du-Rhone that would incapacitate him , he thought with guilt of the Flanders fields , with impotence of the forests where wolves ranged , — with the sense of temptation , secret delight , and energy welling up from unknown sources of Gauguin 's cold bluster , of Vincent 's two voices . |
| 18 | In such systems it is entirely feasible for there to be a plurality of owning or controlling groups , thus preventing any particular group from having a monopoly over goods or employment opportunities that would enable it to exercise coercion . |
| 19 | As for the UK situation , the Shipping Federation had plenty of free labour , while the union had no funds and would think itself fortunate if it could keep the men out for a week or two . |
| 20 | The CNAA 's focus at this point was on building up a picture of institutions that would enable it to relax the rules in some cases : the focus was smoother course approval as a reward for experience . |
| 21 | There are a lot of institutions that would love our collections . |
| 22 | I started by assembling a collection of objects that would provide me with the type of image I had in mind . |
| 23 | They fed these children with these tablets that would make them go and the parents were rushing out and buying tablets to make the children intel the children intelligent . |
| 24 | For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there . |
| 25 | the operators did not develop knowledge or skills that would make them promotable . |
| 26 | I 've seen splints and saddle sores that would make you blench , and you can pull the coat off some of them with your bare hands . ’ |
| 27 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 28 | I bought a new Wilson FM with a sliding table for tenoning , a reversing switch , roll-on and roll-off tables , all the whistles and bells that would make it a really useful machine . |
| 29 | Prom there he was to work up his cover as a rubber man and make the contacts that would get him into Germany . |
| 30 | Britain 's two banned weightlifters were waiting for phone calls that would send them back to Barcelona . |