Example sentences of "that [pron] would [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , protected by the sheltering arm of state-owned companies and compliant politicians , the nuclear industry has set its strongest claims — that nothing would undercut power from the miraculous uranium . |
| 2 | MONDAY morning , and it had been arranged that I would meet Miklós for lunch and then have the chance to talk with some writers from Hungarian PEN . |
| 3 | But I promised earlier in my speech that I would mention service in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War where he rose to the rank of Sergeant . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you think that I would make love to you for a few days and then let you walk out of my life without trying to get in touch ? ’ |
| 5 | My parents are dead now , and I moved away from our village to quite a big town in the hope that I would make friends . |
| 6 | Mr. Bill Walker : I have made it clear that I would not be unhappy if Stagecoach ended up with the Strathtay area , but that I would prefer Strathtay bus company . |
| 7 | And in the in fact in the early days o o f o one of the things that had happened f early on was that I would do jobs on my own , and you it 's amazing how many number of one-man jobs there are . |
| 8 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 9 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 10 | I said some days ago that I would have difficulty er assisting you in making the choice for for some obvious reasons . |
| 11 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 12 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 13 | Erm the way that we see it is that I would appraise Kevin , Bill and Cath , initially and that , oh this is just York 's is n't it ? |
| 14 | The , the only thing that I would say Chairman is that erm planning and er er the role of planning is related amongst other things to development and every single solitary er element in development has an effect , maybe only small and it may be distant , but does have an effect on er water falling as rain and thereby on run-off . |
| 15 | ‘ I still rate the Alembics , though , and below that I would say carbon graphite models , in terms of longevity and playing consistency . |
| 16 | I grew a little apprehensive when she informed me that I would see witches and some ugly things , after which I would see my grandfather and other long-dead relatives . |
| 17 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 18 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 19 | All heaven was hushed as the maiden heard the annunciation from God 's messenger that she would bear God 's child . |
| 20 | Deep inside her was an almost superstitious dread that she would mention Johnny 's future . |
| 21 | In Genesis , Sarah 's reaction to the news that she would give birth to a son in her old age is a good example . |
| 22 | Rather more docile than when she had entered , Frau Nordern agreed that she would give notice , ample notice , more than enough notice to make sure that they had the room and raised her glass in salute as the manager beamed on Erika and then withdrew to welcome the first of his evening guests , stout , prosperous looking men in heavy dark suits : officials , with their wives . |
| 23 | There was one teacher who used to get so mad that she would throw slates around , with the whole class ducking out of the way . |
| 24 | She then swore that she would throw Dudley and his she-wolf into the tower . |
| 25 | And he besought his mother that she would love her even as she loved him himself , and that she would do good to her and show her great honour , for which he should ever serve her with the better good will . |
| 26 | If 2 had been going to choose A , she would work out that 1 would plan to choose B , in which case she would change her planned action to whatever is the best response to B , so falsifying the initial assumption that she would choose A. Thus 1 can not persist in believing 2 will choose A if he knows that she is as rational and well-informed as he is . |
| 27 | The stoma care nurse arranged that she would visit Mr Reynolds when he had been home 48 hours but gave him her telephone number in case he needed help before then . |
| 28 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 29 | She told the Herald that she would miss Le Court and probably be homesick for a little while but she wanted to spend more time with her husband and family . |
| 30 | Laura , thinking privately that she would telephone Kitty and propose £100 each ( St Agatha must be worth something , silly to hang on to her for sentiment , even though she had now become something of a friend , someone waiting when Laura came home to what was , to be honest , a deeply , darkly dire apology for a decent flat ) , patted Luke and said , ‘ Mmm . ’ |