Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally I 'd like to return as the main ingredient used to make the suntan lotion Kim Basinger favours … work that one out for yourselves ! |
| 2 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 3 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 4 | Mary had once mentioned Tom to her but his marriage to Alice would , she knew , be of no significance in the intensely inward life of the old woman whom unsympathetic observers would have categorised as a mad old crone . |
| 5 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 6 | So too are recent developments in what the Chicago School would have seen as the biotic level of instinctive behaviour affecting individuals and societies . |
| 7 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 8 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 9 | He was what her mother would have described as a good man . |
| 10 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
| 11 | It is a term which Carver would have used as a young man to dissociate himself and his peers from others , and its use here encourages the reader to share Carver 's memories of his own surprise and , perhaps , disappointment at Gardner 's appearance . |
| 12 | Hence , subject to your approval , we would intend to act as the principal point of contact for interested parties and their various professional advisers , keeping you fully appraised of developments as they arise . |
| 13 | Ultimately it was only by becoming respectable that the movie industry would continue to survive as a free entrepreneurial enterprise . |
| 14 | Sir Robert pledged that Walker would continue to operate as an autonomous business and ruled out closures in its network of distribution centres . |
| 15 | Mr David Icke , a Green spokesman , said the Government appeared embarrassed that the bill would fail to impress as a careful response to environmental problems . |
| 16 | The government and the rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) signed a protocol on party law on Nov. 13 under which it was agreed that the MNR would start functioning as a political party immediately after the signing of a general peace accord . |
| 17 | The MNR had now effectively recognized the government 's legitimacy and would start operating as a political party in opposition , which meant that in practice a ceasefire was in operation . |