Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also no suggestion in any of the evidence that the mother would forego her responsibilities as a mother and would be prepared to leave the children in Australia and come to England without them . |
| 2 | People feared that turning the City into Fort Knox would damage its attraction as a financial centre . |
| 3 | The smell would catch its victims as a spider 's web ensnares a fly . |
| 4 | In a philosophical mood he would describe his loneliness as an occupational hazard . |
| 5 | Windows has thousands , whereas OS/2 seems to be bereft of the kind of volume of applications that would signal it acceptance as the standard operating system . |
| 6 | Natural philosophers of the seventeenth century would present their work as the search for order in a universe regulated by an intelligent Creator . |
| 7 | This would not abolish literature but would remove its exclusivity as a category ; the task of the English Department is to be redefined as ‘ studying texts ’ rather than ‘ teaching literature ’ . |
| 8 | Though cynics would see their union as a match made in a PR 's wildest dream , there is no doubting that their intentions towards each other are honourable . |
| 9 | It would ruin your future as a politician if anybody found out about my birth . |
| 10 | Perhaps he would take her watch as a token of good faith ? |
| 11 | If it was , it would jeopardise its position as the gateway to China . ’ |
| 12 | Roy Castle took over the starring role for the show 's last nine weeks but was worried that some of the language would tarnish his reputation as a family entertainer . |
| 13 | When Peter Sharp , sixty-one , Manhattan hotelier and real estate developer , died in April 1992 , it was assumed that the Metropolitan Museum would receive his collection as a bequest . |
| 14 | In his position as the British Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan announced , in July 1961 , that the British government wished to negotiate joining the Common Market , i.e. the European Economic Community , but the French President , de Gaulle , fearing that France would lose her position as the leader of the six member countries , was not keen on the British , entry , despite the agreement of the other five nations , The special relationship that Britain had with the U.S.A. was also disliked by de Gaulle and , in any event , the French government wanted special provisions to protect French agriculture , so he effectively blocked Britain 's entry into the E.E.C . |
| 15 | However , a presidential spokesman said that between 30,000 and 50,000 people would lose their jobs as a result of the abolition of ministries . |
| 16 | Given the Association 's fall in membership since the late 1940s , and given the views canvassed by some who worked in the field , exemplified by Bruce in The Highway , there were real fears that the WEA would lose its status as a Responsible Body . |
| 17 | She would offer her breast as a blood sacrifice for life and in that moment of despair she had no doubt at all but that death would accept it and she would have to live . |
| 18 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 19 | In photographs his face looks pasty and his expression petulant ; it would contradict his reputation as a seducer , and of his alluring voice there is no record . |