Example sentences of "would [verb] [det] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiff responded by saying he was interested in selling at $2.5m. but would prefer that sum to be nett of commission . |
| 2 | He said the congress would prefer this idea to impeachment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 : . |
| 9 | One more would make little difference to him and Seb had first-hand experience of the man 's anger . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
| 12 | as if the time would make any difference to a woman whose only son had just been killed . |
| 13 | I ca n't believe you genuinely think that … that my little designs in St Lucia would make any difference to the hundreds of pattern designs used by Sarah Chester Fabrics … ’ |
| 14 | Some believed that the politics of class would bring little advantage to themselves . |
| 15 | First , there should be a sentencing council , which would bring some consistency to sentencing and prevent people from being sent to prison for unreasonable periods . |
| 16 | Finally , and unwittingly , they created nine holes that would tax any player to the utmost . |
| 17 | Clark 's argument might appear to be on firmer ground had he restricted the human comparison to total imbeciles ( anencephalics and the like ) where the complete lack of linguistic ability , and even of its behavioural prototypes in many cases , would prevent any appeal to exclusively human propensities . |
| 18 | Industry would have a healthy supply of well-qualified graduates from Scottish universities proud of their good academic record , but whether they would show more allegiance to a independent Scotland is unclear . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing would do more damage to job prospects … across Europe , than the imposition of further tax or regulatory burdens on employers . |
| 20 | More impressive yet is the fact that upright basses would present little problem to the 715 as its voicing filter can be moved to any desired ‘ notch ’ between 120 and 800 Hz , assisting with the elimination of intrusive resonant frequencies which would promote feedback . |
| 21 | In any case , it is doubtful if its present followers would give much support to such an extension , for it is a religion which claims to confer privileges , including territorial ones , and privileges , by definition , can not have universal application . |
| 22 | They would give more power to local bureaucracies . |
| 23 | Tory candidate Bill Perry said the Conservatives would give more power to the people by giving them help and encouragement . |
| 24 | Tory candidate Bill Perry said the Conservatives would give more power to the people by giving them help and encouragement . |
| 25 | Tory candidate Bill Perry said the Conservatives would give more power to the people . |
| 26 | Pissing crap Sportsnight did nt have England highlights , so you thought they would give some coverage to the other ‘ UK ’ sides … nah . |
| 27 | He would deck himself out in the kind of clothes that would give most offence to her were she alive . |
| 28 | I use the term " child " here in contradistinction to " parent " — not all incest involves juveniles — but one would expect any effect to be more marked the younger the child concerned . |
| 29 | This would attribute some weight to the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3(i) ) in this important area of the law . |
| 30 | He finished up , ‘ You know , we are not the only people who are suspicious of Nigel and would attribute any crime to him . |