Example sentences of "would [verb] give a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference .
2 I would like to give a definite answer .
3 ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it .
4 The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself .
5 He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous .
6 Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know .
7 This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire .
8 Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it .
9 I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun .
10 It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute .
11 If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well .
12 A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading .
13 An action for breach of statutory duty would have given a strict liability action in many cases of road traffic accidents .
14 However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect .
15 In some cases , this would mean giving a low priority to carbon reductions , and stressing instead cuts in CFCs , methane and other greenhouse gases .
16 The accounting policy note on turnover adds : ‘ It is the opinion of the directors that excluding such sales from turnover would understate the group 's activities and as such would fail to give a true and fair view . ’
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