Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 It might have been anticipated that the Criminal Law Revision Committee would seek to put an end to this uncertainty , particularly since , if any guiding principle has informed its final report , it is that the law should distinguish firmly between consensual and non-consensual sexual activity .
2 Richard MacCormac , the recently installed president of the RIBA , would like to see an end to the British passion for period houses .
3 and we would like to see an end to all experiments on animals , for cosmetics , toiletry , household product purposes .
4 I note that RDS would like to have an input to this work , and would be pleased to consider anything that you wish to submit .
5 The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow .
6 Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order .
7 Hans would have had an answer to the current predicament .
8 Leftist critics have suggested that this is because any consideration of the socio-economic context of crime would have proved an embarrassment to the classical position .
9 This was partly because its proposals would have put an end to the prospect of the very benefits that securitisation should bring ( because the Bank of England would have had difficulty in applying its own regulations for securitisation ) , and partly because the accounting treatment proposed seemed to us inconsistent .
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