Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He saw the opportunity to play the peace card and the moderate rearmament card at the same time , fortified by the prospect that in times of trouble the public would prefer to vote for an established Government rather than a peculiarly unknown opposition . |
| 2 | However , it is difficult to say if this is desirable from the residents ' point of view , or whether they would prefer to live in a mixed group of people with differing levels of disability ; when asked , most patients express a preference for being with others who do not have behavioural problems . |
| 3 | It is not only a difficult job to attempt to integrate these but also one that might have opposition from users who would prefer to keep to a successful , if limited , system . |
| 4 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 5 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 6 | In an enclosed community such as Maubisson who would want to confess to a drunken idiot like Waldegrave ? |
| 7 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 8 | ‘ No-one in his right mind would want to revert to the horrible inequality of the Victorian era or anything like that , ’ Leo said earnestly . |
| 9 | And while no carrier would want to be bound by terms and conditions other than those on the receipt message he sent , no transferee would want to pay for an electronic bill whose terms and conditions are other than those he received . |
| 10 | I mean , who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles ? |
| 11 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 12 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 13 | It also accepted that part of AEA would need to remain in the public sector . |
| 14 | The pre-1974 local authority budget cycle was like this : each committee of a local council would discuss how much it would need to spend in the coming financial year , beginning in April . |
| 15 | We would need to allow for the following expenses : |
| 16 | Apart from codifying the rights of the individual , a Bill of Rights would iron out the curious anomaly to which Lord Taylor referred and might in addition save time and money because far fewer decisions by British judges would need to go to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 17 | ‘ To catch it they would need to go in the opposite direction first to Thornaby station , where parking is limited . |
| 18 | It was a problem they would need to address in the coming days . |
| 19 | If the law was ruled unconstitutional , as was widely anticipated , Ada refused to say whether he would seek to appeal to the Supreme Court . |
| 20 | A burglar would be able to avoid the trip beam of an intruder alarm system , and a factory or office would appear illuminated by the infra-red light used by security cameras . |
| 21 | Until the findings of such research become available , the weight of argument and evidence would appear to fall in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | The reason for a year would appear to relate to the periodic reporting requirements regulated by company law . |
| 23 | He would appear to believe in an invented truth , an invented reality — a Rortyan reality , one might be inclined to call it at times . |
| 24 | He was a fervent anti-communist who could comprehend and believe that people everywhere would choose to throw off the communist system if they ever had the chance . |
| 25 | Apart from the all-important cloth trade , however , the city had the normal , diversified economic structure that one would expect to find in a major provincial market centre and head of diocesan administration . |
| 26 | A quite important task is to try to show why the set of intensional patterns is not , as might at first appear , a haphazard collection but in fact the natural set that one would expect to find in a human language . |
| 27 | The houses were much richer environments , decorated and equipped with the wide range of furnishings and domestic items one would expect to find in an average household . |
| 28 | In addition to the aerodrome forecast , the Met 's other principal offering is a regional forecast which again follows the kind of format you would expect to find in the various sources at the airfield . |
| 29 | These vast walls were slashed across with bizarre colours like some monstrous oil-painting … it was the kind of valley one would expect to find in the exotic landscape of a dead planet ’ . |
| 30 | I thanked him for his help , assured him that we would begin to go through the proper channels tomorrow , and said good-night . |