Example sentences of "would [adv] have a [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 | This , they noted , was particularly so in the German companies which would presumably have a comparative advantage over British firms in this respect anyway . |
| 10 | Fortunately she had n't finished unloading the car , so would only have a single hold-all to carry back downstairs . |
| 11 | The innovation of Private Eye ensured that deference , if not quite dead , would henceforth have a hard time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If we combined we would soon have a flourishing practice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | and he was away April he would always have a half-made coffin a sort of standard sized one |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , the marked path is still the highest scoring of the paths considered , and it can be shown that , if all the paths had been considered , it would still have a high probability of being the highest scoring . |
| 26 | Mitch would probably have a fainting fit . |
| 27 | Were one to create a mouse the size of a moose , that mouse would probably have a folded neocortex if its cortex had increased in proportion to the increase in its body size . |
| 28 | ‘ In another location I would probably have a full dining room every night , but that is only a part of what is important to me . |
| 29 | That statement was not , in my view , ever intended to acknowledge the existence of any wider discretion than to exclude ( 1 ) admissible evidence which would probably have a prejudicial influence upon the minds of the jury that would be out of proportion to its true evidential value ; and ( 2 ) evidence tantamount to a self-incriminatory admission which was obtained from the defendant , after the offence had been committed , by means which would justify a judge in excluding an actual confession which had the like self-incriminating effect . |
| 30 | ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’ |