Example sentences of "[subord] we would [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Fry , director of Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit : ‘ We welcome the new tax rate of 20p in the £ for the first £2,000 of taxable income although we would prefer it to be even lower . |
| 2 | It is one thing to realize that our faith will always be weaker than we would like it to be , but it is quite another to insist that our faith must be weaker than it can afford to be . |
| 3 | The flight was very bumpy indeed , and we really wondered whether we would make it to Chengchow , where we had to make a half-hour stop before continuing our journey . |
| 4 | Even as the siren voices in the poem call us towards speech , we 're aware that our own one voice can never hope to carry all these as we would want it to . |
| 5 | When a horse communicates by sound it is not using language as we would expect it to . |
| 6 | We should be careful , however , to emphasise that the nobility ( or noblesse , as we would term it in a French context ) also had its high , middling and lower ranks . |
| 7 | The reasons for resisting women 's suffrage were equally entrenched in traditional prejudice , as we would judge it with hindsight , but they were nonetheless sincerely felt for all that . |
| 8 | Dave said : ‘ The Tap and Spile legend lives on even though the Greenside will not be as we would like it until mid-summer . ’ |