Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You you more or less guessed I suppose it would somehow get get to be known by somebody you know . |
| 2 | In 1828 , a plaque tells you , they were visited by the romantic Abbé Liszt , in the company of one Caroline de Saint-Cricq , who would hardly have expected to be thus immortalized for performing so brief a duet with the pianist composer . |
| 3 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 4 | Although now remembered solely for his pictures , he would probably have preferred to be recognised as a man of science , and the man who taught Sir Henry Stanley the rudiments of expedition photography . |
| 5 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 6 | He would clearly have preferred to be talking to Fiona on his other side , but the award was having to be paid for with politeness . |
| 7 | An indication as to what his position would logically have had to be , had he not held these false presuppositions , is evident from his discussion of the validity of baptism when administered by a woman . |
| 8 | He would dearly have loved to be with them and greatly regretted that age precluded any such thing . |