Example sentences of "they would [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would decide what ends the authority should not be entitled to pursue , or what considerations must be taken into account , rather than actually imposing a particular conclusion by way of substitution for that of the administrative authority . |
| 2 | I have pressed the Minister on this matter both in correspondence and in a visit to the Department when he and his officials told me that they would reconsider it . |
| 3 | ‘ What an excellent product … its first use has prevented the bank foreclosing on a client when it seemed certain that they would wind them up ’ ( HBB Group of Chartered Accountants ) |
| 4 | A High Court judge said they would earn nothing from the book , if convicted . |
| 5 | I trained every one of those dancers at LCDT — hand picked them — I only had to begin a movement and they would finish it . |
| 6 | The bond was so strong that they would feel her presence all their lives . |
| 7 | Maybe they would feel there was something interesting about your band . |
| 8 | Yet , presumably , they would want him to christen their baby ? |
| 9 | He was n't even sure that they would want him . |
| 10 | And sometimes it 's just the person or the family would come and they would want I think they used to by these from the shop . |
| 11 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 12 | said that they would want it increased by 2p and 11 per cent . |
| 13 | When eating , they would make him look as if he were gobbling . |
| 14 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 15 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 16 | She did n't want false teeth ; they would make her look like an old maid . |
| 17 | They would make their way back home as fast as they could to receive the benefits of national health service treatment . |
| 18 | Put together , they would make his fortress . |
| 19 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 20 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 21 | When a sound start was then followed by a sparkling 80 from Richards , a classical 84 from Hooper and a thumping 72 from Marshall , with even Ambrose making 43 , we knew exactly what was what , and when Richards declared on the fourth evening at 448 for 9 , leaving England with a day plus 51 overs to survive , there were probably not many people who thought they would make it . |
| 22 | By saying the war was over , the territory pacified , they would make it so . |
| 23 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |
| 24 | They might not avail to get Harry out of his prison , but they would make it extremely awkward for Isambard to remove him quietly from the world afterwards . |
| 25 | They would make it impossible to fund clubs and societies and would inevitably suppress much of our vital welfare work . |
| 26 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 27 | Of those rejecting the scene , three-quarters said they would ban it . |
| 28 | Why it was called the holy alliance was because erm er the signatories agreed that they would er , that they would rule their states and treat er er policy erm er according to christian principles . |
| 29 | They would , they would rule their states and conduct policy according to christian principles . |
| 30 | BRITISH racing car makers Lola announced today that they would end their association with the Scuderia Italia Formula One team at the end of the year . |