Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah said that the Carmen Curls were quick and effective to use , ‘ although I would prefer to use more than 12 rollers at a time ’ . |
| 2 | However , although it is now widely used , the term ‘ Internal Market ’ would appear to embrace more than one concept . |
| 3 | The worst thing for my son is that what he would like to do more than anything else in all the world is to be able to read like other people . |
| 4 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 5 | ‘ He would have gone more than five thou . ’ |
| 6 | There was nothing Claudia would have liked more than for Dana to put distance between herself and Roman , but for Berenice 's sake she must n't be allowed to divert Garry 's attention away from his wife . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a question of pragmatism , because we found to obtain rights to certain tracks would have cost more than the budget for the entire picture . |
| 8 | Even so , at the official fares my trip would have cost more than $4,500 . |
| 9 | A handsomely produced but unillustrated book like Davy 's Six Discourses ( 1827 ) would have cost more than a week 's wages for an artisan like Faraday had been . |
| 10 | The prosecution claims that if the defendants had succeeded in their plot , they would have netted more than a hundred and thirty eight thousand pounds . |
| 11 | Less than 100 years later , zealots of the Reformation would have wrecked the abbey and plundered the Royal tombs and fire would have destroyed more than 200 of the 247 houses in the town . |
| 12 | The travel industry feared that with the UK market leader — Thomson — having about 31pc of the market , two companies would have controlled more than three-fifths of the market had the Airtours bid succeeded . |
| 13 | The Don admitted that we would have won more if we 'd had Harvey in earlier so perhaps that 's the most telling point of all . |
| 14 | In addition to the hazard of wearing the equipment for the first time , each man would have to walk more than 800 yards through the disused roadways while wearing it . |
| 15 | But it would have taken more than me to convince Harold Wilson that this was so and that conspiracies were not afoot . |
| 16 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 17 | But it would have taken more than just time and ingenuity . |
| 18 | Such a sum would have taken more than three-quarters of the annual income of a well-paid British skilled worker . |
| 19 | Seven curtain calls , and they would have taken more if Rose , concerned at the over-time the stagehands were in danger of earning , had n't signalled Freddie Reynalde to play the audience out . |
| 20 | Montgomery smiled in a kindly and tolerant fashion which any average person would have found more than wildly infuriating . |
| 21 | Shakespeare was only out twice , and perhaps one can understand why " Ruskin 's Selections " and " A Short History of the English People " only once and Herbert Martin 's " Selections from the Spectator " not at all , but the " Kipling Reader " would seem to deserve more than one lending . |