Example sentences of "[Wh pn] would [vb infin] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's caused a lot of resentment within certain sections of the country , especially amongst the rich who would stand to lose a great deal if Mobuto has his way . |
| 2 | Who would want to shoot a dead man ? |
| 3 | Who would want to buy a stuffed crocodile ? |
| 4 | HOST is looking for friendly people who would like to invite a lonely overseas student studying in Britain to spend Christmas , Easter or a weekend in their homes and experience British home life . |
| 5 | Tony Evangelou would like to hear from anyone who would like to form a marine club in London . |
| 6 | It is this we must grasp if we are to challenge those who would seek to impose a tight curriculum upon all children . |
| 7 | ONE by one , the people who would have governed a post-apartheid South Africa have been selected for murder . |
| 8 | Such solutions are drastic , and could lead to the wrongful conviction of someone in an oppressive relationship who would have to incriminate a feared partner in order to clear herself , or someone who did not have the capacity to understand the need to offer evidence of their innocence . |
| 9 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 10 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 11 | McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ . |
| 12 | Paying tribute , the Prime Minister said she was a ‘ trusted adviser who would have had a wonderful career . ’ |
| 13 | We 're looking for six pairs of women — friends , mother and daughter , sisters , it does n't matter — both y of whom would like to have a radical new haircut , maybe a perm , or even a change of colour . |