Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If I was Sam , I 'd want to achieve a better car , ’ Jazz said . |
2 | I 'd like to have a younger-looking face , but do n't like the idea of plastic surgery . |
3 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
4 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
5 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
6 | The acoustic in the solo works is a shade reverberant , and I 'd have liked a longer gap after the Concerto , but the recording quality throughout is very acceptable . |
7 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
8 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
9 | He 'd have to make a better trap though . |
10 | He paused ; he 'd have to catch a later flight . |
11 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
12 | He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
13 | ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
14 | A qualitative interpretation of the fact that mixed sequence single strand oligomers ( Table 1 ) have smaller ΔH and ΔS terms than the oligo or polymeric homo sequences , would appear to reflect a closer analogy in the latter case with the order found in a crystal . |
15 | Instead , we would like to see a clearer indication of the circumstances in which car use can be reduced through different shopping patterns . |
16 | They see him as a possibility for the future and they would like to take a closer look at him . |
17 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
18 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
19 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
20 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
21 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
22 | This is thanks to handling and power which , to my mind , would have posed a greater threat to the Honda NSX 's title of best-handling car than any Mazda RX-7 . |
23 | Is the Minister aware that if the Wakefield district council social services department had to stick to its standard spending assessment it would have to save a further £3 million this year on services for the chronically sick and disabled ? |
24 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
25 | The remainder of the treatment would have cost a further £23,000 , most of which would have been recouped in return for appearing in advertising promotions . |
26 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
27 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
28 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
29 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |
30 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |