Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system would mostly operate a service of at least half-hourly frequency , but the Twotowns North line would incorporate the existing BR express service between Shrewsbury and Wellington with Metro stopping trains at the alternate half-hour . |
| 2 | No ordinary man , he ; with a good education behind him , coupled with a strong religious fervour , he would eventually achieve a degree of fame by compiling a treatise on the botany of North America , called Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus . |
| 3 | This , plus a variety of photographs of him featuring a range of his involvements and achievements would eventually find a place in his portrait portfolio . |
| 4 | And although it was always the hope that the county would continue to fund the project , and that every secondary school would eventually receive a grant of one sort or another , uncertainty meant that no guarantee could be given to disappointed schools as to their inclusion in a subsequent wave . |
| 5 | This is highly price sensitive information from which a conglomerate could make a profit or avoid a loss , but it would rarely constitute a breach of the the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 . |
| 6 | It would rather mount a protest over student grants ( probably in the UK the most generous in the world per student ) than attempt to frame a Charter of the academic rights which should fall to every student . |
| 7 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
| 8 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 9 | There was no reference to the key educational issue in the Queen 's speech , and Michael Stewart ( the new Secretary of State ) was obviously playing for time : ‘ I would rather wait a bit for a good comprehensive system than try to push a sham version in its place . ’ |
| 10 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 11 | Both would thereby indicate a preference for the Conservative Party but their attitudes would not be the same . |
| 12 | 3.6 To the extent that the Tenant has exclusive possession of the Premises at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant shall hold the same as Tenant at will of the Landlord The tenant may wish to delete this clause despite a footnote to the precedent to the effect that any purported determination of the tenancy at will by the landlord ( other than where provided for in clause 5 ) would presumably contribute a breach of contract , ie for withdrawing the authority granted by clause 3.5 . |
| 13 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 14 | Clever compositional tricks would only trap a fraction of the space and diminish the distance . |
| 15 | Another in Sutton , Surrey , said : ‘ I would only want a bunch of wild flowers and the simplest departure possible . |
| 16 | Removal of 2000 m during the Permian would only require a rate of 53 m per million years . |
| 17 | ‘ It would only take a change of attitude amongst men to improve the situation out of all recognition . |
| 18 | I thought it would only take a couple of days to clear up , but it was to take quite a lot longer . |
| 19 | It would only take a couple of houses to be knocked down and they could make it into a dual carriage way . |
| 20 | Moreover , an investor would only obtain a deduction in respect of premiums if it is a financial institution holding its interest as trading stock . |
| 21 | Never having foreseen James would suddenly develop a sense of extra-office responsibility for me , I had rather let myself go describing the flat of a rich friend which allayed James 's earlier mild concern about where I was living . |
| 22 | Yet it would be unjust to deny the legislators the sincerity of their conviction that the transformation of land into a freely alienable commodity and the transformation of communal , ecclesiastical , entailed or other historically obsolete relics of an irrational past into private holdings , would alone provide a basis for satisfactory agricultural development . |
| 23 | But there are lots of categories of cooks who would greatly appreciate a collection of cheap , quick , simple , healthy and trendy meals ; The Parents of Students Cook Book springs to mind as one of many alternative titles . |
| 24 | Far from opening the conduct of foreign affairs to democratic control , the League lacked any democratic assembly of the peoples and would merely provide a cover for all the bad old habits of secret diplomacy . |
| 25 | If you was biking home , you would just get a smir of rain on your faces |
| 26 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |
| 27 | On the whole the working-class seaside resort did not become of major significance until the 1880s , and the nobility and gentry would scarcely consider a stay at Bournemouth ( where the French poet Verlaine found himself ) or Ventnor ( where Turgenev and Karl Marx took the air ) as a suitable summer activity . |
| 28 | ‘ I would not make a case for Pears to be better than Manchester United 's Peter Schmeichel , but there is no-one more consistent . |
| 29 | ‘ If I was him , I definitely would not make a play for her . |
| 30 | It said it may discuss such transactions , which would not involve a change in control , with the management . |