Example sentences of "would [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely you 'd feel much safer with me locked behind bars ? ’ |
| 2 | So I would n't like to see any property developers take it , the club on because I think they 'd be purely after the ground , I , I 'd feel much better if the consortium with Ray at the head took it over because they are genuinely interested in Walsall and the Walsall people . |
| 3 | I do n't think he 'd mind much , but I 'd sooner not try him out . |
| 4 | Do you think it 'd be good like that , and I went , yes Ryan it 'd look much better . |
| 5 | He reckoned he 'd fit much better into Hollywood and high society . |
| 6 | They 'd have much bigger guns than me , and be authorised to use them . |
| 7 | ‘ If you only had twelve of us instead of thirty-two you 'd manage much better . ’ |
| 8 | If she stayed in England with him , she 'd learn much faster than shovelling horse-shit in New Zealand and being made to get up early in the morning . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that the great majority of senior staff in polytechnics would prefer much greater freedom from their local authorities , hence their support of Model B in the 1981 Green Paper and their disappointment at the form which the National Advisory Body has taken . |
| 10 | I have noticed in the past , of course , that most conversations would make much better sense if you ran them backwards . |
| 11 | In the real world it is difficult to see how such a tax could be imposed or calculated , and it would make much more practical sense to tackle the offending firm under monopolies legislation . |
| 12 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 13 | What 's more , this would be so small that it would behave much like a neutralised proton , or ‘ neutron ’ . |
| 14 | It was the truth , but she knew it sounded evasive and that evasiveness was not a quality that would appeal much to Guido . |
| 15 | Panmure 's constituent concluded that ‘ subaltern commissions would fall much in their price . |
| 16 | how we would accommodate much more with a very tight greenbelt on the erm the sites that we 've actually allocated on our side of Ryedale and take account of greenbelt so . |
| 17 | I said I 'd like to wear shorts and a bra top every day without thinking about it , but would feel much too ‘ naked ’ to go out in the street like that . |
| 18 | ‘ I would feel much happier , I do n't want her ill as well as her poor Mother . ’ |
| 19 | Living and dying here you would feel much the same . |
| 20 | With the proper training behind her , she would feel much more confident . ’ |
| 21 | Coun. Mrs Eleanor Young ( Lab ) asked if a repeat of the November test could be made in the summer , when heat and humidity would show much higher pollution readings . |
| 22 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 23 | The person or creature — one of your sub-personalities — starts to argue with you , telling you all the reasons why you are wrong , and why you would do much better to believe that life is full of suffering ! |
| 24 | So though it is perfectly practicable to take a trip to Heiden by car ( a direct road leads from Rorschach ) you would do much better to leave the car behind , go along to the station of the Rorschach-Heiden mountain railway near the harbour , take a cogwheel train , sit back in one of the red coaches and enjoy the gradually changing view . |
| 25 | They would do much better to rely just on their three selves . |
| 26 | It is a classic example of the waste of local taxpayers ' money by a foolish council which would do much better to spend the money on the services for which it is statutorily responsible . |
| 27 | He says it will probably be stopped by the Serbs and would do much more good where refugees are being cared for in safer territory . |
| 28 | Phyllis recalls that her school reports all ended on the same note : ‘ If she put as much energy into her work as into her play , she would do much better ’ . |
| 29 | I do n't suppose it would matter much if I fell in anyhow , cos I can nearly swim . |
| 30 | Some factors are sceptical that legislation would achieve much . |