Example sentences of "[subord] we would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 2 | So many attempts by Christians to communicate the gospel begin where we would like people to be rather than where they are actually at . |
| 3 | Long Term Aim — ‘ Where We Would Like To Be ’ |
| 4 | A little later , " the starlings charmed again " , where we would say : the people laughed again . |
| 5 | Then we would move to a training ground in the foothills of the Alps at Canjuers , where we would spend a month away from the regiment and the barracks , and learning the basics of fieldcraft , tactics and shooting , and where we would spend a lot of time living outside as self sufficient soldiers . |
| 6 | Our destination was to be Cliff College in the Peat District , where we would spend the next few days . |
| 7 | We agreed to have a summit meeting in Bromley High Street after school , where we 'd make a decision on what to do . |
| 8 | But hang on , the fingerboard 's maple where we 'd expect African rosewood , and it looks wider . |
| 9 | We might as well take our time and make quite sure where we 'd like to have them . |
| 10 | The policemen were slightly surprised , and could n't work out where we 'd come from since there were no jetes there at the time ; but we explained that we had ‘ una avionetta privada ’ and they just looked bemused . |
| 11 | Although we would urge a total abandonment of an age limitation , those of us wearied by years of banging heads against , not so much the walls , as the balloons of officialdom ( for , eventually , walls splinter a trifle , whereas balloons bulge inwards and then return to their old shape ) , understand that we must count our blessings in small twopenny-pockets . |
| 12 | Jonathan Fry , director of Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit : ‘ We welcome the new tax rate of 20p in the £ for the first £2,000 of taxable income although we would prefer it to be even lower . |
| 13 | Although we would want the children we work with to become more trustworthy , it is dangerous to teach children to become unquestioningly trusting . |
| 14 | All of his slides were chosen for a purpose , and were of high quality , although we would have liked a garden plan . |
| 15 | It 's welcome , although we would have prefered full time jobs , but it 's a step in the right direction . |
| 16 | b ) We would expect to maintain the duration clause in the contract for this additional application although we would accept a qualification along the lines of ’ … |
| 17 | We are less sanguine about the prospects for simplifying the current range of protective designations , since each has validity and specific requirements , although we would support careful experimentation . |
| 18 | We could , although we would run again into the problem of a diverging integral owing to the limits at infinity . |
| 19 | ‘ Because of lack of human resources and money , we can not meet the needs of the US and Anglo-Saxon countries , although we would like to . |
| 20 | But , if the truth be told , although we would like companies to get it right first time , our experiences have led us to expect rather less . |
| 21 | Terry , Brian and I also soon lost interest in monitoring it around the clock , although we 'd listen to programmes that sounded interesting , together with a couple of news bulletins a day and then VOA at night as Tom went off to sleep and the rest of us played cards . |
| 22 | Collective amnesia is far more prevalent in this culture than we would pretend . |
| 23 | He was hustled up to London to have his head cut off with less mercy than we would treat a chicken . |
| 24 | The Coolin Mountains have a mighty power in drawing forth emotions of admiration and awe , and the appreciation of John MacWhirter 's pictures of ‘ Coiruisk ’ in all its stern sublimity , by all classes of people , discovers a much more general appreciation of the grander aspects of nature than we would credit the ordinary picture-loving public to possess . |
| 25 | why consumers pay er in the European Community , it 's because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm . |
| 26 | Although horses only see in black and white , which is really varying forms of grey like in black and white photographs , they are much more conscious of colour than we would expect . |
| 27 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 28 | They involve quite substantial amounts of money at any time for a task which we consider has been especially well done , usually , in fairness , further than we would expect just for the execution of the job . |
| 29 | Just above , the feature inlay as Mercier paints it is worthy of comment , chiefly because the panel with the semicircular ends is placed very much farther to the left than we would expect to see it . |
| 30 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |