Example sentences of "would in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let us worry about that , ’ said the Captain , who knew exactly what would happen if nobody paid and that they would in all likelihood never find the body . |
| 2 | One of the least realistic was an Iranian proposal , the implementation of which would in all likelihood have turned Afghanistan into a pro-Iranian Islamic state distanced from both East and West . |
| 3 | The police are entitled to tell the person walking away from the scene to discontinue using his filthy language , which would in all likelihood constitute an offence under section 5 of the new Act . |
| 4 | Future historians would in all likelihood use the same data to help answer entirely different questions were it accessible in its original form . |
| 5 | Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ . |
| 6 | It is remarkable that two out of the three patients here described are children under the age of 10 years whose grievous sufferings commenced almost with their birth and would in all probability have continued to their death had not this infirmary been established . ’ |
| 7 | Hoare also agreed that he had been advised by the Director of Public Prosecutions that charges of seditious libel against individuals attacking Jews as a group would in all probability fail . |
| 8 | Overpopulation strengthened the attachment of most peasants to the relative security of the commune : even without government backing the commune would in all probability have remained prevalent in the most densely populated areas . |
| 9 | If you asked Professor Cizek how he got his results , he would in all probability reply — " I just encourage the children to express themselves freely and only stop bad things from originating . " |
| 10 | This assumption is also implicit in the major 1964 oil and sugar agreement , the terms of which were such that ‘ Had Cuba been able to deliver in full its annual commitment of sugar to the USSR , this would in all probability have balanced the cost of Cuban imports from the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | As she hurried upstairs to the bedroom , which still seemed to hold Leo 's presence , she tried not to indulge in daydreams that would in all probability prove to be no more substantial than the rainbows she 'd witnessed earlier . |
| 12 | And the inspector , would in all probability have upheld the refusal , had it not been for the withdrawal , three days before the appeal , of the highways ' reasons for the refusal . |
| 13 | It was still believed , or at any rate hoped , that the refugees would in due course come to terms with their situation and accept resettlement . |
| 14 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 15 | Foo saw the waves as a watery pyre , where he would in due course achieve martyrdom . |
| 16 | Events would in due course moderate his view of the French experiment , but Poole , in spite of hostility , never abandoned his intelligent radicalism or his strong social conscience . |
| 17 | While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed . |
| 18 | There was then little belief in the value of the Coalition Liberals , but a strong belief in the value of Lloyd George ; he would be a good advocate with the new electorate and he would in due course be disarmed as Chamberlain had been . |
| 19 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 20 | Yet even the foreign secretary conceded that economic difficulties would in due course force a reappraisal of Britain 's military commitments within Nato . |
| 21 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 22 | But the use of the notion of appropriateness-conditions would in that case simply make the wrong predictions . |
| 23 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 24 | In addition to the reduced Sports Council grant we have now been informed that facilities we have been able to use free of charge for QT Days would in future cost £210 for six hours , the maximum permissible time . |
| 25 | He reassured shareholders that the TSB would in future focus on banking and insurance services for personal and small business customers under the name of TSB , while the troubled Hill Samuel subsidiary would return to traditional merchant banking , concentrating on fee-earning services . |
| 26 | On June 5 Martens announced further details of the reforms which were to include : ( i ) the demilitarization of the gendarmerie which would in future report to the Ministry of Interior rather than to that of Defence ; ( ii ) a 10-year service limit for senior positions throughout the three branches of the security services ( the communal police , investigative police and the paramilitary gendarmerie ) ; and ( iii ) improved co-operation and co-ordination between the security services and town councils . |
| 27 | Clearly , if a communist revolution was to take place in a country like Russia , the historical stage marked by capitalism would in great part have been skipped . |
| 28 | One sees more of the bowl and stem of the Picasso Compotier , for instance , than one would in normal vision if one assumed the same high viewpoint when looking at the top of it ; and the gourd behind is painted as though in silhouette or directly at eye level . |
| 29 | It should describe how the characters , usually non-aristocratic or less educated , express moods , emotions and actions as they would in real life . |
| 30 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |