Example sentences of "would [verb] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked around the table now in an exaggerated pose , and Harry , laughing , said , ‘ If it was n't for spoiling Aunt Ellen 's work I would throw that centrepiece at you . ’ |
| 2 | It was hoped that such a survey would throw some light on the contemporary landscape in the late Saxon period and perhaps locate earthworks associated with the early monastery . |
| 3 | A proposal for an international forest convention , which would cover all types of forest and lay down uniform standards , was favoured by the north but strongly opposed by the south . |
| 4 | workshop and they would cover this board with woodcuttings like s what we call spills . |
| 5 | We can not suppose , however , that discrimination training is quite without effect — to do so would eliminate any possibility of explaining why acquired distinctiveness training should be superior to acquired equivalence training in producing differentiation . |
| 6 | You have to consider its results as they would affect all classes of the community , and the principles that underlie it , and you have to consider whether the people of this country have been consulted with regard to it . |
| 7 | The plaintiff responded by saying he was interested in selling at $2.5m. but would prefer that sum to be nett of commission . |
| 8 | He said the congress would prefer this idea to impeachment . |
| 9 | A somewhat smaller proportion , 43 per cent , would prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be another election for a number of years . |
| 10 | In an actual campaign we would research these approaches with trial groups to see what changes need to be made . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman refers to Sir Ron Dearing , the chairman of the Northern Development Company , but is he aware of his recent speeches in which Sir Ron lamented the lack of a structure in the north-east which , he was worried , would weaken that area in Europe in the coming years ? |
| 12 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 13 | ‘ As king , Charles would also be head of the Church of England and it is debatable whether the public would want that status to be held by a man with an estranged wife . |
| 14 | He asked me why and I said I was reading a book called My Early Life by Winston Churchill and that I would want any son of mine to live that life . |
| 15 | They would want more powers for local government , plus a Northern Ireland committee at Westminster , but the possibility of the SDLP or Dublin being diverted from the three-strand approach is remote . |
| 16 | Indeed , while some laptop devices had emerged such as the Cornucopia and the Dynabook , it seemed unlikely that handheld CD-ROM technology of any kind would make much impact in world markets for some years . |
| 17 | I did not know whether having a contract would make much difference to the service delivered or to relationships between social workers and general practitioners . |
| 18 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 19 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 20 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
| 21 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 22 | Without such a move , the current attempts to define the notion of logical consequence more or less directly on fragments of natural language ( as initiated by Montague , 1974 ) would make little sense as a general semantic programme . |
| 23 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
| 24 | One more would make little difference to him and Seb had first-hand experience of the man 's anger . |
| 25 | As throughout the tour , Ashenden had observed the opportunist self-seekers at the front of the queue ( as ever ) for the room-keys ; and in the rear ( as ever ) the quieter , seemingly contented souls who perhaps knew that being first or last to their rooms would make little difference to the quality of their living . |
| 26 | Isambard would make little ado about hanging a marauding boy who had attempted his life , especially one who was no business of the county justices or the crown , and had no one in England to take his part . |
| 27 | The member of staff would make all decisions regarding letting with the head not involved in the process but retaining the power of final veto to be applied in sensitive cases ! |
| 28 | And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her . |
| 29 | There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary . |
| 30 | If James wrote a book , it would no doubt be a bestseller , which would make another point of contrast between the two of them . |