Example sentences of "would [vb infin] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I would eat too much and mentally planned to restrict myself at lunch , which would be equally difficult . |
| 2 | It would hurt too much . |
| 3 | Cuvier insisted that the four types were simply different and equally successful body plans — they should not be ranked with the vertebrates at the top , since this would smack too much of the old chain of being . |
| 4 | After a bit we both found the grammar rather monotonous and tried a little conversation so that my English would benefit too . |
| 5 | I mean what I would ideally like is the society in which women could be both private and public people , and men too , so men would identify more with relationships in their families and so on and slightly less with work , and women less with the family and more with work , and I think that would make for much greater flexibility all round and I think children would benefit too . |
| 6 | I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look . |
| 7 | Most people , however , would feel too intimidated to describe their symptoms in those terms to what they perceive as distant and dismissive professionals in the ‘ official ’ system . |
| 8 | Seated , she would feel too vulnerable . |
| 9 | He added : I do not consider the house would appear too big for the plot or that the feeling of spaciousness would be lost . |
| 10 | If the figures were shown year on year , other variations would appear too . |
| 11 | On the one hand , the Montagne de Reims suggests a much higher , tougher topography than it actually represents ; yet , on the other , to talk of rolling hills would give too tame an impression of the region . |
| 12 | In short universal fundholding would give too much power to general practitioners and deny effective management of the health service . |
| 13 | The breed was largely restricted to its light-soiled native area in East Anglia , especially on the poorer , sandy Suffolk lands where it was so well adapted to living on sparse , low-quality grazing that on good pasture it would grow too much and become coarse in the bone . |
| 14 | That would look too much like another Arab defeat at the hands of the West . |
| 15 | Nigel could n't really review the stories himself — that would look too obvious . |
| 16 | No , that would look too obvious . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think the car rental company would look too favourably on that , querida — that 's if you ever managed to start it again after ramming two tons of reinforced steel . ’ |
| 18 | Your boobs would look too big . |
| 19 | Your story would sound too ridiculous to be believed . |
| 20 | So the notion that venture capitalists are prone to interfering in the businesses in which they invest is not , strictly speaking , a valid one , or if so not a criticism about which MBO managers would fret too much . |
| 21 | He wrote a poem about his friend Francis Thompson , and in it there are many echoes of his own sad youth in which he must have wondered often if his mind would flower too late for good . |
| 22 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 23 | That would constitute too great a loss of face . |
| 24 | To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public . |
| 25 | would become too inquisitive . |
| 26 | The couple , who live in a village in the New Forest , took the baby back to the hospital because they feared they would become too fond of her , but have now taken her back . |
| 27 | At one time Robert had been afraid she would become too tall for the stage , but her height remained ideal at five foot six . |
| 28 | However , even in the case of concepts and skills there is a danger that a curriculum based entirely on large numbers of criteria would become too rigid . |
| 29 | His successor pursued a more cautious path but there was a danger that party membership would become too small to maintain satisfactory links with the bulk of the population . |
| 30 | They would become too expensive if the clean up were needed , and again , would not benefit the community widely . |