Example sentences of "would [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 2 | " In the circumstances I felt that you would prefer me to make some money . " |
| 3 | I offered to talk of a duty superior to that she mentioned , which would oblige her to help distressed innocence , and not permit her to go to the lengths enjoined by lawless tyranny ; but she plainly bid me be silent on that head ; for it was vain to attempt to persuade her to betray her trust . |
| 4 | But where could social workers obtain skills which would qualify them to teach social work ? |
| 5 | Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place . |
| 6 | ’ In return for that amount , ’ y'Pripio went on , ’ we would expect you to maintain total discretion and loyalty for the duration if the contract . |
| 7 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 8 | When the time came , they would elevate him to become another Stoneley . |
| 9 | And you would like me to provide that management ? ’ |
| 10 | Now you tell us how you would like us to adapt this model to meet your specific requirements . ’ |
| 11 | In the meantime , to keep you occupied — and to ensure that some part of the considerable sum of money invested in keeping you alive is repaid — we would like you to do some work for us . ’ |
| 12 | Can EMI please explain how they justify this , and say how much extra it would cost them to provide proper documentation ? |
| 13 | I would suggest you to ask that question in fact you 'll ask Gordon afterwards . |
| 14 | Most of those whom the king preserved in office were men of the middle nobility , men whose experience would enable them to take effective charge of those placed under them . |
| 15 | Although they have yet to resume ivory trading , the wildlife authorities in these states argue that a carefully-controlled trade based on the substantial " elephant surplus " in their parks would enable them to fund conservation work , including anti-poaching activities . |
| 16 | the important lessons they learnt cos at first they thought land reform would enable them to achieve mass mobilization |
| 17 | From childhood he had been fascinated by natural history , and at Cambridge he decided on a career which would enable him to combine medical research with his interest in comparative biology . |
| 18 | Er the other fire fighters would enable us to hit that target on a regular basis and in fact we will also the target during those periods when . |
| 19 | A youth training fund would enable us to continue this scheme , not only with a view to employment , but enabling us to provide training and development of personal skills , which would benefit them in future employment or future education . |
| 20 | North Korea was also believed to be constructing a nuclear reprocessing plant which would enable it to extract unused plutonium and uranium by-products from spent nuclear fuel rods . |
| 21 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 22 | Universal services would be available with a level of resourcing that would permit them to give appropriate support to individuals within a common overall structure . |
| 23 | Therefore the designers of more recent systems hoped that an improvement in bottom-up recognition would permit them to achieve good recognition rates even with less advantageously arranged grammars . |
| 24 | A benefit suggested by 17% of the wives from the ‘ substitution attendance ’ was that it would allow them to help each other out in emergencies . |
| 25 | During the Kyoto session the southern African representatives advanced a compromise formula , which would allow them to resume regulated trade ( i.e. with reclassification of the African elephant to Appendix II ) , and to resume selling elephant hides and meat , but with an initial zero quota ( until 1994 ) for ivory . |
| 26 | This would allow them to have some influence in the company ( unlike in Britain , where there has been no sizeable reservations of shares on a collective basis in the shape of employee trusts ) as shareholders as well as having worker-directors . |
| 27 | Now , what layout of the cards would allow you to score five diamond tricks without loss ? |
| 28 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 29 | And in the creation of unity , unity there 's deep concern about the status of American churches in Romania and obviously the Hungarian church in Romania is affected by that whole process so I would urge you to read that letter to remember the work of Hugh erm and to be aware of , of what the situation is in that part of the world . |
| 30 | As a strategist , Franco wanted the local victory in the Basque Country which would help him to win total victory in the whole of Spain . |