Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather ask early rather than late . |
| 2 | We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else . |
| 3 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 4 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 5 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 6 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 7 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 8 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 9 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
| 10 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 11 | things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that . |
| 12 | But he would not press too vehemently or he would lose the support of the Prince . |
| 13 | In the middle of the document , he says that if the MacSharry proposals were accepted — he says that they would be — they would not last very long because they would be too expensive . |
| 14 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
| 15 | And he said his company 's 99p set of earrings would not last as long as a Marks and Spencer prawn sandwich . |
| 16 | If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life . |
| 17 | So I told my proposer to let my name stand , and said I would accept whatever the ballot box decided , but would not play there again if the vote went against me . |
| 18 | Also that the children of the La Mane Centre would not live happily ever after until they had killed Dr Adams . |
| 19 | In his view it would not happen as easily or as quickly but the key point is , it could happen while maintaining the status quo . |
| 20 | The fact that some believed that their teaching programme would not differ greatly even if such examinations were abolished seems to suggest that the GCSE syllabuses may be moving in the right direction , and present fewer conflicts with the way arts teachers normally operate . |
| 21 | More than four in five said they would still holiday abroad even if hot summers could be guaranteed in Britain . |
| 22 | Caspar was not the ideal person to be shoulder to shoulder with , because he would probably melt away altogether if there was a real threat . |
| 23 | You would n't leave here even if I gave a direct order . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I hope that remark does n't imply that you would n't care so much if she was a nasty person . |
| 25 | And then , not very long after retirement , I realised that I did n't rally want excitement any more — though perhaps a little bit of the exotic would n't go amiss now and then ! |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 28 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 29 | No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in |
| 30 | Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ? |