Example sentences of "would [adv] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many people would rather have a stiff drink to help them sleep , than take a sleeping tablet for their insomnia .
2 I would rather have a little shop , a holiday home and be getting married and having kids .
3 But when the chips are down and he 's feeling blue , Charlie sees himself as ‘ The Maryhill Hermit ’ , a victim of his public image , and a man who would rather have a quiet night with the wife than a night out with the wild bunch .
4 However , there are those who take the view that , on the day of the actual birthday , they would rather have a smaller celebration with the immediate family .
5 In the first flush of youthful passion , and in the imminence of war , Leslie had vowed that he would rather have a few years with me than eternal life without me .
6 More than half would rather have a shorter summer break and more holidays at other times .
7 would rather have an old man .
8 When it comes to safety when it comes to safety I would rather have an electric cooker .
9 The French would rather have the neutral Finns opting out of the EC 's common foreign policy , for example , than watering it down .
10 The treaty parties ( as third parties to the Protocols ) would presumably have no such remedy , although they would be the States most immediately and directly affected by any such action .
11 This , they noted , was particularly so in the German companies which would presumably have a comparative advantage over British firms in this respect anyway .
12 Fortunately she had n't finished unloading the car , so would only have a single hold-all to carry back downstairs .
13 The innovation of Private Eye ensured that deference , if not quite dead , would henceforth have a hard time .
14 Following the Normansfield Report , the Secretary of State announced that the development team would henceforth have an inspectorial element added to its advisory service function , and health authorities were to be asked to review their arrangements for monitoring performance at individual hospitals .
15 Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general .
16 ‘ If it had n't been for her courage and fortitude in going out there and taking on the role of investigator , private detective and motivator , those files would still be closed and the police would just have an unsolved case of a missing person . ’
17 Your article on crime in America ( December 22nd ) suggests that laws severely restricting access to firearms would somehow have the happy effect of bringing peace and tranquillity to the United States .
18 The Commission concluded that the new entity could act independently of its competitors and customers and would thus have a dominant position on the commuter markets .
19 If we combined we would soon have a flourishing practice .
20 Serocold Skeels inverted the logic of genocide : as the Jews ritually slaughtered cattle and the Talmud viewed gentiles as animals , growing Jewish power threatened the security of the goyim everywhere ; the Jews would soon have the legal power to murder whom they chose .
21 In most cases , this would not be realistic given the likelihood that any skilled programmer would already have a wide knowledge of other software products .
22 Er , the honourable gentleman wondered whether we would ever have a truncated view again , certainly not under the ninety three legislation because that was a once off as a careful reading of the act will show , er but er we will erm and his honourable friend , the member for Perry Barns hoped er that er we would have no more reviews of European boundaries , I know because he was talking at P R but we will certainly have one new review of er er Euro constituency boundaries because as soon as the parliamentary boundaries are completed er we will have to go into a new review on that basis of all the European seats and of course the full enquiries will be held in the normal way for them .
23 If the little creatures were really blank paper at birth , nobody would ever have the slightest difficulty in writing on them whatever their particular culture required , and it would be impossible for them ever to surprise their elders by unexpected conduct .
24 As Sheila watched him go , she knew that in spite of the hurtful words he had just spoken she would always have a soft spot for the man .
25 He would always have a special place in her heart for as long as she lived ; but Rune did n't need her and Suzie did .
26 and he was away April he would always have a half-made coffin a sort of standard sized one
27 And he had the makings of a strong , but kind and loving father , who would always have the little girl 's best interests at heart .
28 However , in half-anticipation , I 'd calculated that after the one hour twenty flight from Porto we would still have a two hours forty endurance at 75 per cent cruise for the return flight to Porto in order to clear Customs back into Spain .
29 She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state .
30 They might have set out to reform the planning system , giving greater independence to public enterprises , establishing more effective accounting and regulation of economic performance , and also enlarging the share of medium- and small-scale private enterprise in production , trade and services ; in short , to move gradually towards a system of market socialism or to a mixed economy in which public ownership and planning would still have a substantial place .
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