Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Personally though I do n't mind hefty boots and would prefer to feel the greater support around my ankles offered by other boots in the High Country range . |
2 | He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
3 | ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
4 | A qualitative interpretation of the fact that mixed sequence single strand oligomers ( Table 1 ) have smaller ΔH and ΔS terms than the oligo or polymeric homo sequences , would appear to reflect a closer analogy in the latter case with the order found in a crystal . |
5 | I would expect to see the lower figures resulting in as indeed they themselves imply , lower migration movements to North Yorkshire and indeed I think the figures from er might end up by the end of the period as net outward movement from North Yorkshire to be achieved , given the level of commitments we have up front . |
6 | Instead , we would like to see a clearer indication of the circumstances in which car use can be reduced through different shopping patterns . |
7 | They see him as a possibility for the future and they would like to take a closer look at him . |
8 | But the second perspective is that the rent review clause is the landlord 's price for the grant of a long term , in the absence of which he would have granted a shorter term . |
9 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
10 | Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it ! |
11 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
12 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
13 | This is thanks to handling and power which , to my mind , would have posed a greater threat to the Honda NSX 's title of best-handling car than any Mazda RX-7 . |
14 | Is the Minister aware that if the Wakefield district council social services department had to stick to its standard spending assessment it would have to save a further £3 million this year on services for the chronically sick and disabled ? |
15 | The proposed change would have prevented the older couple from being evicted unless they had consented either to the mortgage or the later sale . |
16 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
17 | Delegates blocked the election of former ZSL Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Kazimierz Olesiak , as chairman of the newly named party , feeling he would have hindered the broader moves towards the reunification of the peasant movement , electing instead Jozef Zych . |
18 | The remainder of the treatment would have cost a further £23,000 , most of which would have been recouped in return for appearing in advertising promotions . |
19 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
20 | In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place , gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting . |
21 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
22 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
23 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
24 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |
25 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
26 | ‘ We would have preferred an earlier chance to get back on the rails , ’ admitted Thompson , whose side 's defeat ended a run of six consecutive wins . |
27 | This meant further discontent on the part of the workers and peasants , which would have meant a greater use of coercion by the state . |
28 | The return flight was made via Horta in the Azores due to not having a Maia-assisted take-off , which would have allowed a heavier fuel load . |
29 | It would have needed a later generation of social workers , free from the prejudices of war , to detect the frustration behind the mask of ingratitude and disloyalty . |
30 | Carol and Mark were ever loyal and proud of their mother , while Denis had a role which would have dismayed a weaker man . |