Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 2 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 3 | Still , it is good to know that British boxers can now command as much money for fighting in London as they once would have received only when topping the bill in the United States . |
| 4 | Carrie would have died rather than say these things but Nick would n't be embarrassed : he could say them without turning a hair ! |
| 5 | Some would have starved rather than give up the playing . |
| 6 | The United States in particular had feared that Malaysia 's EAEG proposal — a more exclusive and ambitious trade bloc initiative — would have divided rather than drawn together the trading interests of the wider Pacific area . |