Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 2 | ‘ If I were Newley , I 'd want to know for certain , even if I intended to go through with the deal . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | If you keep soft water fish you would need to test for general hardness . |
| 6 | Her publicists would have to search for other stars to publicise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 9 | Even if , as one study asserts , the USSR pays 50 per cent more for CMEA products than these products command in world markets , the question which matters to the Soviet Union is what she would have to pay for equivalent Western equipment ( and how she would pay for it ) . |
| 10 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Just — different , because you 'd be tied up elsewhere , and I would have to look for other friends . |
| 13 | She says that they all thought they would have to look for other jobs . |
| 14 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |