Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pron] would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Last Meal in the Old Home ’ , like a Pre-Raphaelite painting , the three orphans and the grieving servant seated in melancholy around the old table , using the old knives and forks they would never use again . |
| 2 | This enables various devices to be used in order to discriminate against the much more abundant elements and molecules which would otherwise swamp the 14 C signal . |
| 3 | Hundreds of T-shirts , jackets and trainers which would normally have been destroyed will now be put to good use in orphanages there . |
| 4 | Joseph Glanvil , for example , believed that if people gave up belief in ghosts and witches they would soon also give up God , and he investigated some supposedly haunted houses . |
| 5 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |
| 6 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |
| 7 | Hemp bags with holes in them , paper , broken bits of wood and , I expect , old implements and things which would now be quite valuable . |
| 8 | The artists lived as one extended bickering family and writers and painters who would never have seen each other before the war were thrown together . |
| 9 | It would cut off electricity supplies to large parts of the South and cause flooding of polluted rivers and creeks which would then contaminate the entire region . |
| 10 | Much time was spent in the formulation of rules to lay down the alignments and éaulements which would best display each movement from the audience 's point of view . |
| 11 | Well — what if there were , they had had a lot of him and would find through loss , perhaps , all sorts of qualities in themselves and others they would otherwise have missed . |
| 12 | But below these skilled aristocrats of labour were men in the press shop , who would design a press to mass produce a part , and others who would more likely earn 1s 6d per hour , or less , based upon a piece-work arrangement . |
| 13 | If it is used , however , to highlight commonly experienced deprivations and restrictions , and stimulate a move away from those towards a range of service provisions and life-styles which would normally be seen as more adequate , more acceptable , and even more desirable — which would , in short , be valued by most of that society — then normalisation must offer some hope of a breakthrough . |
| 14 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 15 | We shall perhaps never know what sparked his enthusiasm for collecting , but is certainly to be thanked for saving the many carriages , vans and carts which would otherwise have been broken up or left to rot . |
| 16 | He left on Thursday 1 May and there was a comparatively light raid that night , but it was the start of eight days and nights which would never be forgotten in Liverpool . |
| 17 | The very essence of his character was against him , creating doubts and rumours which would always stand in his way . |