Example sentences of "would [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Hence , it was believed , the economy would attain maximum growth , to the benefit of all : hard work , self-reliance and respectability — which were in theory demanded of all , including employers — would benefit both rich and poor , morally and materially .
2 The system was seen to benefit the Soviet Union , whose oil and gas exports to Eastern Europe would attain high market prices .
3 ‘ And you would override that belief ? ’
4 This offers 35 slots for now but there are plans to upgrade to a model 580 that would double this number .
5 Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there .
6 Stressing CCETSW 's target annual figure would remain 5,000 students , she said evidence showed that some qualified social workers were losing out to other professional groups in the race for care management posts .
7 Yugoslavia would remain official chair , but had asked to be relieved of its practical duties in view of the civil war .
8 The remainder of Nunavut would remain federal crown land , and the Inuit would be eligible to receive a portion of any future resource royalties .
9 Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ?
10 If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party .
11 Mrs Lynda Chalker , who lost her Wallasey seat to Labour , said yesterday she was delighted that she would remain Overseas Development Minister .
12 Moreover , to close all nuclear power stations would consign 100,000 workers to the dole queues .
13 Moreover , whereas a lava flow-front would have half buried any pre-existing craters a low-angle thrust fault would intersect such craters , as observed on Mercury .
14 Meanwhile John Edmonds , general secretary of Britain 's general union the GMB , claimed the rate rise would throw 250,000 people out of work .
15 I 've got stories : equipment getting trashed , feet through speakers , Ginger would throw lighted cigarettes in my hair !
16 He walked around the table now in an exaggerated pose , and Harry , laughing , said , ‘ If it was n't for spoiling Aunt Ellen 's work I would throw that centrepiece at you . ’
17 Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor .
18 It was hoped that such a survey would throw some light on the contemporary landscape in the late Saxon period and perhaps locate earthworks associated with the early monastery .
19 Well I 'd like to say to that that er no Marx did n't specifically erm erm look to Britain or er Germany , only in the sense that they , at the time most advanced and he , he reckoned that er ideas of communism would spread only in the most advanced countries who in course of time would influence other countries .
20 The problems experienced by United Motors at its Dublin plant , which the Englishman advised were the major factors which would influence future investment decisions in Ireland , simply melted away into insignificance under their mellifluous tongues .
21 While the pervasiveness and uniformity of television news made it unlikely that it would influence different people in different ways , the press seemed likely to influence different readers in very different ways .
22 I bet my Gran would outdo any King 's Kid anyday !
23 The way people talk about faith , you would think that rationality , inquiry , investigation , understanding and proof had all joined hands to form a circle of knowledge , leaving faith outside in the cold .
24 ‘ I can imagine you would think that way . ’
25 I would think that distance
26 The best part of Nineteen Eighty-Four , he told Orwell in his letter of July 1949 , announcing his visit , was ‘ the delicious conversation in the pub when Winston tries to pump the old man for memories of pre-revolutionary days ’ , and one might easily have guessed that Waugh would think that episode the best .
27 To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons .
28 I phoned a customer last night and said that the system should be done by the latest I would think next Monday like , you know ?
29 and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea .
30 However , it is also the basis for our belief that improving the pedestrian 's lot would deliver great benefits to an enormously large number of consumers .
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