Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead .
2 Nothing near as tasty and tender as our … ’ and , her mouth overflowing with steak , beans and croquette potato , Mitzi named an Austrian breed Elisabeth had never heard of ( and did not imagine she would need to remember for future use ) .
3 If you keep soft water fish you would need to test for general hardness .
4 Her publicists would have to search for other stars to publicise .
5 If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate .
6 I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it .
7 Just — different , because you 'd be tied up elsewhere , and I would have to look for other friends .
8 She says that they all thought they would have to look for other jobs .
9 Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale .
10 After losing to Richard Krajicek in the fourth round in Key Biscayne , McEnroe outlined how he would try to do for American tennis what he has seen Yannick Noah achieve for France .
11 It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system .
12 Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age .
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