Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remains in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary under observation but a hospital spokesman could not say if she would remain there a second night . |
| 2 | Schemes for the unemployed , such as community work , might be helpful for those involved but would cover only a fraction of the three million people out of work , he said . |
| 3 | ‘ That would make even a vicar laugh ! ’ |
| 4 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 5 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 6 | Fine , well I am sure it would make quite a good essay . |
| 7 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 8 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 9 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 10 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 11 | He mentions a café where he would eat once a day . |
| 12 | Others said that to do so would damage further an already deprived population . |
| 13 | Our existence would lack even an Adamic fig leaf of meaning if we ignored our capacity to glide over our past , coalescing and juxtaposing our memories , irrespective of their temporal spatial or circumstantial labels . |
| 14 | It would need only a charge of the cavalry , or a shot fired over their heads , to set them off . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there is little pipe — so you would need quite a standardisation between nut sizes large selection of open-ended spanners to cope with all the nuts you might find . |
| 16 | and that obviously they would be tend to be other children with mother 's there so they would need perhaps a play facility there and other children who goes to the E N T clinic can go to the not just go to the outpatients casualty |
| 17 | I would need about a quarter of the boxes , but I ca n't be sure where he is going to land . |
| 18 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |
| 19 | The meeting would seek specifically an agreement by which all countries reaffirm their neutrality and detachment from military blocs , as the first step towards the eventual ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 20 | Claiming that a coup was being planned even before he introduced economic austerity policies on taking office three years previously , Pérez told foreign correspondents on Feb. 9 that he intended to continue with his economic policies but would bring forward a $4,000 million social project to improve health care , education and social welfare over the next four years . |
| 21 | The birth of a son was welcomed now for traditional reasons ( for example , among Hindus the son plays an essential part in the cremation ceremony ) and because he would bring home a vast dowry when he married , but no longer so much because he would be a new worker for the joint family . |
| 22 | One day Penelope would bring home a Tibetan holy man , another time the entire Black Panther party . |
| 23 | America was conceived in vision as one of the greatest dreams of men ; it was to be the first nation ever to escape from oppression and the freed spirit would bring forth a splendid nation . |
| 24 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 25 | But it will render precise almost every judgment on run-outs , and that alone would clear away a lot of dirt . |
| 26 | Rupert Rosser , a villager and member of the GVPG , thinks a bypass would divert only a fraction of the traffic . |
| 27 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
| 28 | The most striking example of an ( unsuccessful ) attempt at bribery was described by an officer who was offered a free choice of goods from a manufacturer 's showroom if he would pour away a formal sample he had just taken ( see s. iii , ch. 6 ) . |
| 29 | But , as Nigel Haigh of the IEEP has pointed out , even if 1970 ( the year of peak emissions ) was taken as a baseline , the UK would achieve only a 44 per cent reduction as against 80 per cent for the Netherlands , 56 per cent for West Germany and 50 per cent for Belgium . |
| 30 | I desire he would send also a box of Castile soap , a chest of candles , four hats ( the sun does not like my complexion ) , a small case of drinking glasses ( the supply on board the Hopewell was dashed to pieces ) and should the passage lie by the isle of Madeira , a pipe of that nectar , for I have exhausted my store . |