Example sentences of "would [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He joked : ‘ I would rather just do the run — but I 'm told I 've got to go through with the ceremony as well . ’
2 Were he to be called in the immigration debate Joshua would most certainly abandon the bookshop where he planned to spend at least part of the morning .
3 Lily might worm the reason out of her , and then Uncle Vernon would most likely telephone the theatre and accuse anyone who would listen of being nothing less than a slave-driver .
4 If it can be proved that the pillion passenger knew the driver was only a learner the passenger would most likely commit the offence of aiding and abetting the learner to carry an unlicensed passenger .
5 Eight words that you think would be most suitably des that would most suitably describe the feelings of the apostles on Good Friday , on Easter Day , and on Ascension Day .
6 Everyone knows his feelings for Rangers , And I would most readily do a swop for a number of our players — Gary Stevens , Trevor Steven , Alexi Mikhailechenko , Ally Maxwell , Chris Vinnicome .
7 In such cases the English court now has power to make an award in that currency if such an award would most fairly compensate the plaintiff for his loss ( The Despina R [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 804 , HL ) .
8 If the net loss was incurred in a currency other than pounds sterling and if an award in the currency would most fairly compensate the plaintiff for his loss , the court will award the damages in that currency ( The Despina R [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 804 , HL ) .
9 Such a movement , if continued , would presumably quickly deplete the feature and lead to its destruction , unless the bar is being built up by onshore movement of material at its western end as Hardy suggests .
10 In expressing that objection , other contemporaries were undoubtedly swayed by the realization that Lyell 's axiom would so greatly increase the age of the earth that it might threaten even a generous reading of Genesis .
11 John 's fee was his first professional one and would only just cover the expenses of presenting the act .
12 If it was spread out in the way that the plum-pudding model supposed it would only moderately deflect the a-particles .
13 Will he please ensure that there is no slippage whatever in the time scale for the resignalling from Bethnal Green to Chelmsford which would obviously substantially enhance the service ?
14 I would much rather see a return to the carefree approach by the like of Ballesteros and Lyle .
15 One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee .
16 But suppose that the creditor accepts the debtor 's old car in satisfaction of a debt of £2,000 , protesting that he would much rather have the cash and eventually taking the car only because there seems to be no hope of anything better .
17 And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time .
18 I would just about have the strength to make it through the gates — to the rest and smoke which I badly needed because my legs were beginning to seize up .
19 One more win would just about see the cherry and whites safe for another season in the first division .
20 I can see them getting 90 at least , and it will take quite a collapse from them to not get the 85 which would just about guarantee the title .
21 This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action .
22 Moreover , the likely rental would not even match the interest Mr and Mrs P would save if the house were sold and they were credited with the net proceeds of sale .
23 The child would be cared for ; would not even miss a mother she had never really known …
24 They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now .
25 White feminist friends would not even accept the fact that I was Black !
26 ‘ He would not even acknowledge the success ! ’
27 Rickie would not even try a sandwich , but instead pushed his plate away and lit a cigarette .
28 My father would not even allow a radio in the house , and when I suggested getting a TV set for him and my mother he adamantly refused , saying that the wireless had been the death of good conversation , and that TV would be the death of the family .
29 Mrs Crumwallis 's medical ministrations were so notorious for their vagaries that even Toby , a healthy young man with no great tolerance of the sick , would not willingly subject a boy to them .
30 This would help ensure that the design of one component would not unduly influence the design of another .
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