Example sentences of "would a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hath rotted ere his youth attain 'd a beard ; |
| 2 | Ian Lawrence runs his kitchen just as he would a hotel |
| 3 | And how better would a kidnapper do such a thing than to send a letter by his Majesty 's Mail . |
| 4 | Poison was traditionally a ‘ woman 's weapon ’ — but would a woman bake a cake for a competition and then put poison on it ? |
| 5 | I would suggest if anybody has this problem , they drill the heads off as you would a rivet , punch the nail in a little and fill in then with the appropriate filler . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’ |
| 7 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 8 | WHAT would a visiting foreigner make of this production of Macbeth by The Raving Beauties ? |
| 9 | Would a united Germany accept demilitarisation and ‘ adopt a neutral status ? ’ ; |
| 10 | How would a united Germany fit in with the attempt through the Helsinki process to end the division of Europe ? ; and , would the new Germany take into account the interests of others in concluding a European peace settlement ? |
| 11 | Neither would a test ban stop the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | Would a democratic and successful Germany , bound into a democratic and successful Europe , have reason to do otherwise ? |
| 13 | Yet would a white child born into the same conditions as the most disadvantaged inner-city black ( to a drug-taking , teenage , single mother , say ) be more likely to succeed than a black ? |
| 14 | Possession of the land was to follow the normal order of succession to land , as would a hereditary title if one existed in the family . |
| 15 | Would a traitor to the socialist cause ever have received such a welcome at a Labour Party Conference ? |
| 16 | If Labour withdrew from Bradford or Birmingham , would a multitude of parties not spring up based on rival religious and racial identities ? |
| 17 | Would a person like Crevecoeur be so desperate as to seek sanctuary in such a place ? |
| 18 | It may see a man as it would a stallion , and regard him as the Big Boss . |
| 19 | Second , only rarely would a coin have been lost at or near the same time when it was made ; we must bear in mind how long a particular type of coin is likely to have stayed in circulation . |
| 20 | Would a trader have dared to raise prices so ? |
| 21 | He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government . |
| 22 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 23 | He himself always adhered to the layering method , as set out in his first publication , the smaller Dictionary of 1724 : ‘ In the Spring prick a great many Holes with an Awl about a Joint that will be in the earth and cover it would a good Mound to peg it down . ’ |
| 24 | You come to see me as you would a man upon his death-bed . |
| 25 | Only if a legal system was eventually brought in would a breach of contract become a criminal breach of the law . |
| 26 | It was 40 years from the foundation of the German Empire to the outbreak of the First World War : would a ‘ united Europe ’ last that long , and what are its prospects ? |
| 27 | Only by the merest chance would a traveller through space happen upon the planet Earth ; a tiny jewel of a place , orbiting an unexceptional star in an ordinary galaxy , but — miracle of miracles — providing precisely those conditions , neither too hot nor too cold , nor too dense nor too sparse , where the astonishingly delicate processes of life can unfold . |
| 28 | It is impossible to express the Hopes , the Fears , the various Conjectures , and Reveries , that your humble Servant must undergo this important Season , I am like the unhappy Gentleman mentioned in the Guardian ; and can scarce endure the bare Pronunciation of the Letter S : The hissing of the Tea-kettle distracts me ; and if I meet a Goose , I shun him as I would a Lion , or a Crocodile . |
| 29 | So when would a rule or practice which had a discriminatory effect be ‘ justifiable ’ ? |
| 30 | So far as balance is concerned , would a teacher in a school with Afro-Caribbean children on the register have to present a case for as well as against apartheid when covering South Africa ? |