Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his staff had urged that he abandon the Duchess 's ball , but such an act , he knew , would only have offered encouragement to the Emperor 's many supporters in Brussels and could even have prompted the wholesale desertion of Belgian troops . |
| 2 | Since this has cropped up here I would just like to draw attention to it . |
| 3 | We , in the Midlands , support the role that the Health and Safety Review document puts forward , and in concluding , President , I would just like to pay tribute to my regional committee and the work that they did , in getting the review off the ground in the first place . |
| 4 | Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today . |
| 5 | Had we followed the advice of our so-called revolutionary counsellors , this substantial move toward a political revolution would not have taken place to anything like the extent shown by the figures . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most controversial question concerning English intonation is what its function is ; pedagogically speaking , this is a very important question , since one would not wish to devote time to teaching something without knowing what its value was likely to be . |
| 7 | The episode was better forgotten , he thought ; he would not risk exposing Grégoire to Louise 's unkindness again . |
| 8 | ( c ) The defence of ex turpi causa would not apply having regard to the changing public opinion of suicide . |
| 9 | But she did not know if she would ever want to make love to Tom . |
| 10 | Living in such a house would nonetheless have exposed Leapor to a more leisured way of life than she had known before , though as a servant her enjoyments would have been circumscribed . |
| 11 | Twenty-four hours later it would still have required access to a crystal ball to predict the result after some of the most enthralling encounters seen on a golf course since man first put club to ball . |
| 12 | It would also need to pay attention to regional variations , since it is true , even in these days of mass mobility and the mass media , that to travel to a place remote from a major centre of population is to move back in time and rediscover the traditions and practices of an earlier period . |
| 13 | I would also like to pay tribute to chairpersons , secretaries and committee members who give many hours of service to our Institute . |
| 14 | I would also like to pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Council 's other Committees and in particular to who took over the chair of the Policy Review Committee in May 1990 . |
| 15 | I would also like to pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Council 's other Committees including Business Development , Policy Review and the Scottish Council Foundation . |
| 16 | Christian conscience and enlightened self-interest would often combine to enable relief to be given to the poor and the needy and for more ostentatious acts of generosity to be accorded to the village as a whole . |
| 17 | His lips would n't move to give voice to the words . |
| 18 | I would n't care to offer advice to gamblers , because I 'm sure that people who bet on horses do things other than purely look at the odds the horse if offered at . |
| 19 | As a councillor himself , the author would surely have drawn attention to such a reversal . |
| 20 | As a councillor himself , the author would surely have drawn attention to such a reversal . |
| 21 | Nevertheless we are generally satisfied that both committees , that 's the English and the Welsh committees , have done a thorough job and on behalf of my colleagues I would certainly like to pay tribute to those who served on those committees who I believe discharged their responsibilities with great professionalism in circumstances made unnecessarily difficult by ministerial dithering and delay . |