Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
2 | Tomorrow I would find chemical solutions to these new problems . |
3 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
4 | I would guide such readers to the ‘ Suggested Further Reading ’ section at the end of the book . |
5 | It might save money , but in terms of the environmental impact it is quite disastrous , and I think that it 's only now that the real problems in London for example are coming home to roost , er and I would ask that point to be borne in mind by whoever we decide should make representations to the commissioners . |
6 | I would resist that addition to the er paragraph in the deliverance . |
7 | If only someone would explain these things to me , but I was too shy and scared to ask . |
8 | The latest addition to Foula 's sparse crime statistics was the sort of incident that nobody would pay much regard to elsewhere . |
9 | The ‘ fact ’ of the first premiss covers all and no more than the facts awareness of which would modify spontaneous reactions to the issue in question ; ‘ Face facts ’ will be applicable to the issue only within the scope of this information . |
10 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
11 | The Liberal Democrats say the purchase of a London City Licence by a motorist wishing to drive into central London would entitle the driver to a ‘ Freedom of the City ’ pass which would give free travel to public transport in the central area and free car parking at out of centre park and ride sites . |
12 | Cheshire County Council is currently considering whether to contribute to a southbound spur to the Manchester-Crewe via Styal line — total cost estimated at £5 million — which would give direct access to the airport from the south of the country , as well as the Midlands , Chester and North Wales . |
13 | Instead , we have to offer a conceptual and contextual account which would open electronic publishing to the knowledge and skills being developed in other areas such as Editing and Marketing . |
14 | Does my right hon. Friend envisage the creation of a Territorial Army element in the Household Division , which would go some way to alleviating the greatly increased overstretch that the 40 per cent . |
15 | Treatments which would pass genetic changes to the children of patients are not so far permitted . |
16 | First , there should be a sentencing council , which would bring some consistency to sentencing and prevent people from being sent to prison for unreasonable periods . |
17 | The Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act , which would require canned tuna to be labelled as to whether it is ‘ dolphin-safe' ’ , received 126 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives , and is to be debated early in 1990 . |
18 | They made a demand of our waste , without offering any allowance for the same ; and by degrees did we tamely submit , we should be brought under a yoke , which would have some affinity to that of the Egyptian Bondage . |
19 | The need , then , was to design a portfolio of courses which would provide continuing opportunities to those entering the secretarial/administrative field . |
20 | And the Retail Motor Industry Federation forecast an increase of 100,000 sales which would boost 1922 figures to around 1.8m . |
21 | The core of the meeting 's decision was the adoption by 18 votes to six of a resolution which would allow commercial hunting to be resumed when stocks had reached 54 per cent of their estimated population prior to large-scale exploitation . |
22 | The Supreme Soviet recommended changes to the draft treaty which would allow direct elections to the Soviet of the Republics and federal taxes to be levied by the centre . |
23 | So for all those reasons sir there does seem to me to be erm the case for a policy which would allow this exception to erm attract to North Yorkshire inward investment of this strategically important kind . |
24 | In his 1978 speech , Sir Geoffrey Howe said that new agencies would be created for the zones , which would re-allocate public-sector land to private users . |
25 | That is a patronising approach which would deny widening choice to many local authority tenants . |
26 | She glanced around her , instinctively assessing and planning how she would like this place to be . |
27 | She would fall thirty feet to the beach below , and they would find her , crushed and broken , beneath what was left of the chair . |
28 | In March of the following year her ambassador in Paris publicly apologised and promised that in future she would recognise French claims to precedence . |
29 | Third , effective operational planning of services for individuals would be fostered by the appointment of care managers who would have more flexibility to be innovative and would also work within a clear system of accountability to senior managers . |
30 | On the other hand , there would be much greater flexibility for clients and lawyers , and much more control by the instructing client who would have direct access to the advocate in the case . |