Example sentences of "would [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would think a lot of the money is actually in property already or she 's got to have it in property |
| 2 | The mass of estuaries and inlets that make up the coastline mean an oil spill would cover a lot bigger area . |
| 3 | ‘ I actually thought they would relate a lot more . |
| 4 | If an insurance company were having to pay out , they would want a lot more information than we are being offered . |
| 5 | They would want a lot ; there is no reason that we should give them everything they ask for . |
| 6 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , if you were to find out something that would make a lot of difference , in the cheating line , would you tell me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ For some older workers it would make a lot of sense , because together with our ordinary voluntary redundancy payment it is an attractive package . ’ |
| 9 | He notes that , although nearby supernovae are somewhat rare , an event such as this occurring in 4 BC would make a lot of statistical sense . |
| 10 | ‘ It would make a lot of people feel very much easier if he offered his resignation . ’ |
| 11 | It is too early to say whether this is the way the brain works but , as Rolls ( 1987 ) points out , it would make a lot of sense of a lot of uninterpretable data if it was ; it also makes sense on logical grounds , since it gets round the problems associated with grandmother cells , like the problem of perceiving novel objects and the complexities of arranging the massive degree of convergence of input required for grandmother cells to work . |
| 12 | Putting Fairclough on Shearer would make a lot of sense and run to form … |
| 13 | The plan would make a lot more sense if pedestrian crossing lights were introduced , but co-ordinated with other existing traffic lights from Teviot Place to the bottom of The Mound so as to reduce the number of stop-start cycles required by through traffic . |
| 14 | So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others . |
| 15 | It 's a possibility , a solution , it would explain a lot of things . |
| 16 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 17 | and you 'd get very sad and it would hurt a lot . |
| 18 | They would need a lot of convincing before accepting that tourism is a better bet . |
| 19 | ‘ It would take at least $1 billion to start a studio from scratch ’ , reckons one mogul who adds that ‘ even then it would need a lot of luck . ’ |
| 20 | If this was the case our staff would need a lot of shares and the ear of a possibly extinct breed of Bank Manager ! |
| 21 | We 're there for , to give the help and advice that people need on the day to day living , er because a person with say with a respiratory illness , er would need a lot of benefits er they , their lifestyle has to change , and often their home and adaptation has to change with , around it . |
| 22 | He reckoned that if any angler ever worked out how to hit all of the bites that came on that method they would win a lot of money . |
| 23 | I am originally from Mauritius — a small island in the Indian ocean — and I think the system would benefit a lot of low-income people there . |
| 24 | I think that if periods were seen as something ‘ natural ’ , ‘ good ’ and ‘ healthy ’ , instead of painful , unclean and embarrassing , then girls and women would feel a lot better about themselves . |
| 25 | ‘ Gran would feel a lot happier if you paid her a visit . |
| 26 | And I think there is scope for misunderstanding there , and I think that if those two basic things , if we could learn to do those better , and I say ‘ we ’ because I do n't think anyone has all the answers to these problems , that , that school-parent relationships would , would improve a lot more that way , by doing these basic things better , and being sensitive to the difficulties of , of communication , rather than by trying to do all kinds of new policy things and erect new formal committees of this and that kind . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a slight problem there , although with Barry Gibb we would do a lot of the playing live . |
| 28 | ‘ In fact , using these drinks would do a lot of damage . ’ |
| 29 | And er these were er he would do a lot of the iron work , because a lot of the iron work would be forged . |
| 30 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |