Example sentences of "would [verb] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confined to their present role , trade unions would remain a response to the exploitation , actual or hypothetical , of employees by employers — a response which meritocratic benevolence would , if performance matched intention , progressively reduce to a satisfied silence . |
| 2 | Critics would stress the extent to which the children 's freedom to map out their lives for themselves , to make genuine preferences on the basis of a range of possibilities denied them , had been stifled . |
| 3 | The choice of a serial implement tat ion for a computer would affect the architecture to the extent that we must choose a representation for negative numbers that can economically be processed in a serial manner . |
| 4 | Only a headcase would prefer a ball to her . |
| 5 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 6 | There are some whose fear of instability is so great that they would prefer a return to the old divisions . |
| 7 | Rosenthal is a national hero in Israel and at 29 may be tempted by the thought of a permanent return home even though he would prefer a move to France or Spain . |
| 8 | ‘ PopCon has been doing research all over the world to establish that the majority of prospective parents would prefer a son to a daughter , and many would be prepared to undergo minor medical procedures to ensure that they got their wish , including the abortion of a female fetus , ’ Dorothy told a hushed audience in a room at a secret address in North London . |
| 9 | ’ , ‘ My mother would prefer the name to be … |
| 10 | Twenty-two out of these 29 said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care ; the remainder said they would like increased care at home . |
| 11 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 12 | They would prefer the leadership to be decided at the annual autumn conference . |
| 13 | He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to . |
| 14 | The absence of the neural modulation of the contraction would enhance the response to CCK-8 and bethanechol as found in our experiments . |
| 15 | The Steering Group believes that the development of Departmental Road Safety Plans would enhance the contribution to casualty reduction which can be made by Regional Council and Police personnel . |
| 16 | The buyer would want the price to be well below the value of his monopoly , to maximise his profits . |
| 17 | It is an intriguing thought that both would want the host to be sexually attractive . |
| 18 | Moderator four five nine Moderator I welcome the number two in the deliverance but I would make a plea to the er panel that this leaflet be a very simple leaflet and it not be brief , but in fact be quite lengthy . |
| 19 | The widespread feeling that the cancellation amounted to a humiliation for Japan was underlined by reports from Russia 's ITAR-Tass news agency on Sept. 13 , which stated that Yeltsin would visit South Korea on Nov. 12-13 and would make a trip to China in mid-December . |
| 20 | Miyazawa had earlier tried to appease right-wing nationalist sentiment by announcing on Aug. 9 that , in a reversal of his previously stated position , he would make a visit to the Yasukuni shrine , Japan 's most venerated memorial to Japan 's war dead , particularly those killed in the Pacific War . |
| 21 | The loss of land plants would make a difference to the chemistry of the atmosphere ( and of course would be a tragedy ) . |
| 22 | VP : a statement has empirical meaning iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , which , since a statement is verifiable , on this approach , iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , is equivalent to : VP 1 : a statement has empirical meaning iff it is verifiable . |
| 23 | VP : a statement has empirical meaning iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , which , since a statement is verifiable , on this approach , iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , is equivalent to : VP 1 : a statement has empirical meaning iff it is verifiable . |
| 24 | Within the English tradition of radical , ‘ Marx-influenced ’ , sociology the tendency has been to concede that social mobility is in principle important ( large-scale mobility would make a difference to one 's analysis ) , but to deny that really significant social mobility has taken place . |
| 25 | Can the applicability of procedural protection be affected by the likelihood that the hearing would make a difference to the result that the tribunal has reached in this particular instance ? |
| 26 | It would make no sense to booby-trap the weapon in these circumstances . |
| 27 | It would make no difference to him . |
| 28 | ‘ They said flotation would make no difference to AMV , and they kid themselves it 's still the same , but it is not . |
| 29 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |
| 30 | As for Iraq 's engineers , Mr Hussein 's demise would make no difference to their ability to build a bomb . |