Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organiser , too , is a woman … though she 'd rather give pride of place at the air display to another female — Sally B , a B-17 bomber , star of the film Memphis Belle . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd never set foot outside Zimbala before he came to Oxford . |
| 3 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was a little more friendly since he ‘ would rather give money for Education than throw it down the sink with Sir William Beveridge ’ . |
| 4 | Nick things that men who really love making love with women would rather grind flesh against flesh than fiddle about with straps and elastic . |
| 5 | ‘ People generally would rather spend money on clothes because they feel they are noticed first . |
| 6 | French leaders would humbly seek absolution for Pompidou 's awful error in failing to attend Persepolis , and seek contracts for nuclear power stations . |
| 7 | Most people would only eat bran with breakfast cereal . |
| 8 | Here purists were deliberately challenging official arguments which opposed fresh legislation or greater public discussion on the grounds that this would only draw attention to sex and incite immorality . |
| 9 | In July , when Nationalists protested at the failure of the corporation to appoint Nationalists to committee chairs , the mayor pointed out that fifteen or sixteen years ago the Nationalists had said that they would refuse to take such chairs and that they would only take part in corporation affairs in order to disrupt them . |
| 10 | We would only need cover for centre-half and of course we have big — bad — jon for that ! |
| 11 | Instead , Levy had simply assured Baker that Israel would not use the US funding in the occupied territories , and would henceforth share information regarding settlement with US officials . |
| 12 | For this would obviously ensure pride of place for holist explanations . |
| 13 | By May the play was almost complete — all that was necessary was the process of readjustment which would necessarily take place in consultation with director and actors . |
| 14 | In addition , from a purely practical point of view it would not make sense for judgment creditors to be afforded preferential treatment in insolvencies . |
| 15 | For example , the chairman of Welsh Water stated recently that , in spite of assurances from the Drinking Water Inspectorate concerning the safety of fluoridation plant designed according to the Department of Environment 's code of practice , his company would not continue fluoridation on Anglesey or extend fluoridation into the rest of Wales unless required to do so by the secretary of state . |
| 16 | This would not involve disclosure of persons held out to be partners : if a party litigating against a firm is unaware of the identity of persons held out as partners , he can not by definition have acted in reliance upon the holding out , so liability under s14 of the Partnership Act can not arise . |
| 17 | Copts would not give money for use against Copts . |
| 18 | I would not give space to anti-arrhythmics in my bag as a GP . |
| 19 | Fenella gasped and then thrust her clenched fist into her mouth , because she would not , she emphatically would not give way to polish emotion . |
| 20 | No one thought the speaker should have added that they would not hew wood for Lord Salisbury ; the divisions within the Council which would become so painfully evident over the Boer War were between Gladstonian Liberals and Liberal Imperialists , with the odd Liberal Unionist added for decoration , not between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 21 | The Druze leader , Walid Jumblatt , said in Amman yesterday that the Taif deal would not bring peace to Lebanon and that , although he did not intend to block it , he would not accept it either . |
| 22 | As well as these apprehensions it was also considered that the extension and development of the social services was more in keeping with collectivist principles and would not restrict benefit to families with children . |
| 23 | This allows you to say where the receptive field lies and a little bit about its spatial organization but , unless you are very lucky , it would not allow classification into X- , Y- , and W-categories with any confidence . |
| 24 | This was the first time that a Conservative MP had publicly urged the government to abolish the zero rate of BAT since the before the last General Election when , in a letter to the Publishers Association , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals . |
| 25 | In a letter to the PA sent during the run-up to the General Election last April , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals . |
| 26 | Under the scheme proposed here , young people would gain the wage-packet , would not lose contact with education ( they would be in college or school , initially for two days a week ) and would have gained an employer interested in developing their skills . |
| 27 | They would not escape tax for October 1985 to April 1986 at all ; the special rules meant double taxation . |
| 28 | The boys with whom I associated would not keep company with Journeymen excepting in their workshops , nor with lads whose fathers were not housekeepers . " |
| 29 | I would not take office under MacDonald , and yet it would have been impossible to have refused . |
| 30 | In view of the international and domestic controversy generated in 1985 when Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited the shrine , together with the complications arising from Japan 's strict constitutional separation of church and state — those commemorated by the shrine being revered as Shinto deities — and the recent accusations of incipient militarism made by many neighbouring countries following the enactment of the PKO bill , however , Miyazawa stressed that his visit would be " in a private capacity " and would not take place on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War . |