Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Americans would prefer to think that Lee Iacocca singlehandedly saved Chrysler from bankruptcy than to accept the real story : a large team of people with diverse backgrounds and interests joined together to rescue the ailing company . |
| 2 | No contemporary anthropologist , social or other , would want to argue that people of different culture must on that account be automatically ranked in a hierarchy superior/inferior . |
| 3 | He said the feasibility study would seek to prove that laser welding was not only possible in a subsea environment , but would also lead to substantial improvements and cost savings . |
| 4 | At opposite extremes are the ‘ seamless web of learning ’ party who would appear to argue that integration is so noble in itself that it should be undertaken whether teachers can handle it or not , and the committed and dogmatic subject specialist with a bookful of behavioural objectives and forty pages of sequenced syllabus to back them up . |
| 5 | Dreaming does not seem to be confined to our own species : research on the subject would appear to indicate that animals likewise have dreams : we have all seen a sleeping dog twitch as it ‘ chases rabbits ’ . |
| 6 | Almost any spirited teenager who lived in Detroit wanted to move to its bigger busier neighbour Now a lot of people would beg to differ that Chicago is more exciting ; Saunderson would most probably be one of them . |
| 7 | Similarly , an imaginary case in which I would claim to know that p , but where p is false , will succeed in preventing me from claiming to know that p in a new case which is not relevantly ( i.e. , discernibly to me ) different . |
| 8 | It is something one might have to learn live with , though one would hesitate to suggest that BB 's production processes have almost as many holes as its bread . |
| 9 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 10 | I would like to say that Pegasus Farm was of vital strategic value to the war effort , but I can not . |
| 11 | ‘ I would like to think that Sparky still has it as his major ambition to play here and not for any other club . ’ |
| 12 | Nobody exactly dominated England 's middle order , so I 'm still confident he 'll be on the plane to India , and I would like to think that Nick Speak , Graham Lloyd and Peter Martin will be on the ‘ A ’ tour . |
| 13 | And I have to say that we give our commitment very quickly and we would like to think that people also give erm their commitment . |
| 14 | I would like to believe that Europe can develop into an association of humane societies which people can believe in . |
| 15 | I would like to suggest that poetry helps the writer to learn about three things . |
| 16 | I would like to suggest that John Adler looks to his own laurels before criticising rough carpenters . |
| 17 | I would like to suggest that branches adopt this as a policy . |
| 18 | I would like to suggest that branches hold open meetings at regular intervals , one of which would be the AGM . |
| 19 | Could I say that we 'd be willing perhaps that the Conservative amendment first of all , and then to turn to the amendment by the Liberal democrats erm I would like to suggest that schools or other charities , not just schools are exempt from any registration charge but will still notify the local authority in , in advance of an event , because events held at schools or by charities still create problems with traffic and parking and congestion |
| 20 | Let's stick to this concept , I , I welcome it , I think it shows good thinking on the part of our officers and I would like to suggest that er , I take er , a back seat on this one , and I , I , I 'd feel probably , set up a sub-committee , I would think four or five is ample , and I would like to propose that Malcolm chairs this meeting , so that we have a fresh brain and a younger brain , looking at the future 's problems . |
| 21 | We would like to guarantee that departures will never be delayed . |
| 22 | It may not be a popular view , but I would dare to say that prisons are our most important , and also our most deficient , social service . |
| 23 | For one thing he would have to acknowledge that Sarah was not barren , so it must be his own fault she had n't given him children . |
| 24 | Certainly one would have to agree that O'Neill did little to change either the reality or Catholic perceptions of their subordinate position in the polity and the economy but his failure almost certainly owed more to his lack of power than to his lack of desire . |
| 25 | No one would have guessed that Piers and Nicole were involved , least of all her husband . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh , if he had n't known his history , would have guessed that Massingham was the produce of a sound , upper-middle-class family — a doctor or a solicitor , perhaps — and of an old established grammar school . |
| 27 | Gabriel would have recognized that Lily was in one of her aggressive moods ; they alternated with gentle or more co-operative states . |
| 28 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 29 | They 'd all have laughed , even Mr Blakey , and then quite abruptly Mrs Blakey would have said that Timothy Gedge deserved to be birched . |
| 30 | Incidentally , if our Government really believed in the principle of subsidiarity , they would have ensured that decision-making would be decentralised within the United Kingdom as well as within the Community . |