Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gridded forward viewscreen , framed with bronze bones , displayed in subdued ginger hues — metamorphosis of infra-red — the expanse of the arena and the vast closed petals of the dome which presently would unfold to let monsters out of its cave . |
| 2 | And even if , I repeat their findings were valid , enough unchallengeable evidence would remain to make them immaterial . |
| 3 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 4 | Five or six in one part of the hall would create a din , and when Blackshirt stewards approached to eject them scores of Red colleagues would arise to join in the battle . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have thought that if you were offering something better , people would rush to take it up . ’ |
| 6 | One may imagine that bishops would rush to ordain him to make the point . |
| 7 | When Astrid asked her daughter a question , Miranda would rush to reply , as fully and as dazzlingly as she could : her mother liked to be amused and was easily distracted by something else . |
| 8 | How dear Maisie , or Natalia , and certainly Emma , would laugh to see him enslaved by an ankle after their more generous gifts of person yet enslaved he was . |
| 9 | Assured by Helen that their new way of making love brought no ill effects for her ( ‘ Happy and bountiful Helen ’ ) he wishes her to understand his satisfaction away from her : ‘ You would laugh to know what my amusements are ! — mere jests of the slightest character ; rough simple ways ; and very little thought . |
| 10 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 11 | So we 're in your hands as to what date you would prefer to hold it and who we would want to invite . |
| 12 | Instead they would prefer to hold idle money balances in the knowledge that , if they wait , the rate of interest will go up again . |
| 13 | The US administration has requested the extradition of 80 traffickers , but the drug barons have said they would prefer to die in Colombia than spend the rest of their lives in US jails . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ Research has shown that 70 per cent of us would prefer to die at home and only 30 per cent of us do . |
| 15 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 16 | Old Mr David Hughes has just been told by his doctors that he 'll have to retire , and the younger members of the family would prefer to sell out and start up on their own . |
| 17 | At present the evidence suggests that society would prefer to tolerate the adverse consequences of ready consumption than curtail the enjoyment of the majority . |
| 18 | However , he also suggested he would prefer to restrict the use of the concept of ‘ liminality ’ to those ritual periods in small-scale societies which all must pass through , and use the term ‘ liminoid ’ for those anti-structural periods personified by the ‘ counter-culture ’ of the 1960s ( 1978 : 287 ) . |
| 19 | John Major would prefer to wait . |
| 20 | Many would prefer to risk a pregnancy than put up with the side-effects of ‘ efficient ’ contraception . |
| 21 | ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son . |
| 22 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 23 | While representatives of the leading clubs would prefer to move immediately to a Premier Division of ten , there is also an acknowledgement on their part of the need for compromise . |
| 24 | As the girls changed for the dance , giggling , excited , she had moments when she thought that she could not do it , that she would prefer to go in her skirt and jersey . |
| 25 | I would prefer to go in the kop , but failing that I 'd like to try the new East stand . |
| 26 | We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions . ’ |
| 27 | The ROA would prefer to see the money used to increase prize money in the lower races , but when money is reallocated in that manner it has a way of disappearing . |
| 28 | Dr Caroline Jackson , MEP , said that the European Parliament would prefer to see an environment agency as opposed to the ‘ network ’ suggested by the DoE . |
| 29 | I think that many of us would prefer to see falling rolls as a chance to reduce class size , thus giving pupils a better chance of carrying out practical work in pairs rather than in groups of three or even four . |
| 30 | It would prefer to see the income from the rental stream plus trading activities kept separate from the results of disposals of investment properties . |