Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would not present a problem to England 's selectors , since the 16-strong party picked for India already includes one-day specialists Graeme Hick , John Emburey and Neil Fairbrother with eight limited-overs games due to be played on the sub-continent . |
| 2 | The loan would not become a burden to your dependents . |
| 3 | The loan would not become a burden to your dependents . |
| 4 | Where it seemed that this would cause injustice , equity stepped in with the doctrine of " part performance " : if the contract were partly performed , equity would not allow a statute to be used " as an engine of fraud " . |
| 5 | To hold that " reckless " bears a subjective meaning would be consistent with the definition in the tort of deceit : one would not wish a person to be convicted of a crime when he would not be tortiously liable . |
| 6 | What does seem to be a reasonable inference , however , is that this child would normally offer a response to an ambiguous or unclear statement on the confident expectation that his choice will be either confirmed or disconfirmed by the speaker . |
| 7 | There is no room here for a highly technical debate about language , but what is clear is that Christianity can not possibly associate any view of God with what we would normally conceive a person to be . |
| 8 | Mrs McBride , he thought , would soon put a stop to anything like that at St Matthew 's . |
| 9 | And if young master Tristan , with his fancy education and his airs and graces had any such notions about founding a dynasty then he — common or garden John-William Dallam — would soon put a stop to it . |
| 10 | But this fact alone would hardly entitle a beneficiary to execution in rem against a third party : to allow that would be to indulge in a breach of fundamental principle and equity . |
| 11 | Lil and I would always give a home to John 's wife and child . ’ |
| 12 | And if she flung Rupert and Ianthe together they would probably take a dislike to each other . |
| 13 | He added he would willingly forego a trip to the United States and play in the Jersey Open with the hope of collecting more Ryder Cup points . |
| 14 | The modification is that the Government would also make a charge to the trading fund , representing an opportunity cost of capital charge . |
| 15 | We would also like a commitment to co-operation within and between Government departments on coastal planning . |
| 16 | Armed fundamentalists existed before the Afghan war , and would now pose a threat to Middle Eastern governments without the help of a single Afghan veteran . |
| 17 | Once he had Garry back with Berenice he would n't give a thought to the Adams twins and she would forget him and the time she had spent hunting Garry and her sister through the Northumberland countryside . |
| 18 | She would n't make a wife to any man , or if she did she 'd ruin him . ’ |
| 19 | One would n't expect a clergyman to be interested in young girls of eighteen . ’ |
| 20 | Philippe , Duke of Orleans , brother to the future Louis XIV was raised as a girl to ensure that he would n't pose a threat to his elder sibling 's claim to the throne of France . |
| 21 | ‘ Mind you , I would n't follow a director to the devil . |
| 22 | Would n't have a chance to would we ? . |
| 23 | If he refused , he knew Calder would immediately send a report to the War Office that he was deliberately being uncooperative , and the War Office would use its influence to have him demoted or transferred . |
| 24 | Or , more likely , Jay would simply match a customer to such an item and negotiate a price . |
| 25 | When she asked me it would almost bring a tear to my eye . ’ |
| 26 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |
| 27 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 28 | Cook said that if he did not make the South African team he would seriously consider a return to county cricket . |
| 29 | Although they discussed the mystery at length , it was clear that they would never reach a solution to the puzzle of the man 's presence at Thorsbury and whether or not it was with Tamar 's knowledge . |
| 30 | He always had a deep mistrust of other people 's lavatories and , indeed , would never allow a visitor to his own flat to use his . |