Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I decided I 'd rather go to a small club and work my way up . |
| 2 | He 's not a proper father : he 'd rather talk to a foreigner than come and find his own son . |
| 3 | Plays , too , ai n't my line much ; I 'd sooner go to a dance — it 's more livelier . |
| 4 | I 'd just come to a point . ’ |
| 5 | Kenny had a ‘ horses-for-courses ’ policy and he 'd sometimes switch to a five-man defence and leave out me or Peter Beardsley . |
| 6 | He vowed there and then he 'd never return to a tournament like that ; he felt that a man of his stature should n't be playing in what was , after all , a second-rate event while the Masters was on . |
| 7 | He had concluded that the new strategy would eventually lead to a resumption of the armed struggle , but , more dubiously , had gone on to suppose that civil rights activities could be treated as if they were an armed insurrection . |
| 8 | Maybe we could put together a questionnaire which would eventually lead to a data base of resources . |
| 9 | And even after due allowance has been made for the undeniable fact , easily forgotten as it is , that literature is written by writers , and that writers are likely to be highly exceptional beings who actively prefer working alone , there is still something persuasively representative about the man in the play who would rather listen to a new recording of a favourite opera than to the problems of his neighbours and relatives . |
| 10 | They were men of such unyielding integrity ( they would only admit to a fault in order to show how it might be overcome ) that the wavering personality of a child could not rest for long against those monumental shoulders . |
| 11 | Major , addressing the Welsh Conservative Party conference on June 14 , dismissed those " sulking on the fringe of talks about the destiny of Europe " and declared that " the British government and the British parliament would only move to a single currency if they took a further , separate and explicit decision to do so , not just when to do so but whether to do so at all " . |
| 12 | They note that for a deviation Δ of 10 -11 the accumulated effect over a year would only amount to a relative velocity of 1 µm s -1 towards the Sun ! |
| 13 | It would not do for it to take place in Moran 's house and Moran would not go to a hotel . |
| 14 | Several stated that this was why they would not go to a GP or a Detoxification Unit , even as an out-patient . |
| 15 | In the Soviet Union the party and government bureaucracies issued a mass of rules and regulations — so many , in fact , that sometimes ways had to be found to circumvent them so that the system would not grind to a halt . |
| 16 | Lord Donaldson said afterwards that his proposal would not lead to a downgrading of justice . |
| 17 | Another concession won by the NFU was clarification that inadvertent damage to a sett would not lead to a prosecution . |
| 18 | It could , for example , consist of a complaint that a rating list had been prepared on an unfair basis in the sense that another ratepayer 's property had been undervalued , even if a revaluation would not lead to a reduction in the complainant 's rate bill . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover said , the answer does not lie in a permanent military force in Yugoslavia , because that would not lead to a political resolution of the problem — as is the case in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | The 1935 general election was a disappointment and it was a major part of Cripps 's case for the Labour Left that the election due in 1940 would not lead to a Labour victory either . |
| 21 | is something that I would not say to a French lady , something that I could say to my daughter , right ? |
| 22 | Many would not turn to a sound , nor would they smile or babble when spoken to . |
| 23 | The last point is important since we have become used to structural walls being of solid construction , and normally it would not occur to a DIY or small builder carrying out alterations that walls could be otherwise . |
| 24 | I believed he would not agree to a truce . |
| 25 | Taylor had consistently made it known that he would not agree to a ceasefire until Doe had resigned and left the country . |
| 26 | Students , likewise , would simply be admitted to the institution ; they would not belong to a department or faculty . |
| 27 | One important factor whch applied in that case would not apply to a case considered under s3 : s13 of the Act , which defines the classes of the clauses to which the Act applies , provides that to the extent that ss2 and 5-7 of the Act prevent the exclusion or restriction of liability , they " also prevent excluding or restricting liability by reference to terms and notices which exclude or restrict the relevant obligation or duty " . |
| 28 | A wound has been defined as an injury which breaks both the outer and inner skin — a bruise or a burst blood-vessel in an eye would not amount to a wound . |
| 29 | Such a facility would normally apply to a physically discrete or contained site ( e.g. a single pasture , groups of pastures , a wetland separated from other land ) in order that livestock from another ownership or section of land could not substitute for the agreed reduction . |
| 30 | Without them , many of the ecological processes upon which we and other organisms knowingly or unknowingly depend , would soon grind to a halt . |