Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For your evening entertainment you should try to take the opportunity to go to the theatre or enjoy a concert or maybe you would prefer to relax in one of the many wine cellars or bars . |
| 2 | In many ways I would prefer to live in one place , but taking old and derelict houses and making them relive again is a source of enjoyment to me . |
| 3 | She ‘ would prefer to think of different languages as having the potential to exploit differing degrees of subjectivity ’ but she does not think there is ‘ any neutral ontology or world view which is objective and can serve as a universal yardstick . |
| 4 | They would prefer to think of little green men than leprechauns . ’ |
| 5 | Because of inflation , now about 20% a month , they are usually unwilling to lend for longer than three to six months , and would prefer to stick to simple trade finance . |
| 6 | The startled Burmese team withdrew , and returned saying they would endeavour to join in agreed conclusions . |
| 7 | Erm , nothing Chair that I would want to refer to other than the , on page eleven we 're showing a figure there for management and support . |
| 8 | Right , and how many would want to go to both ? |
| 9 | Part of the advice one would want to give to any young person today is to thoroughly know your business by working on the factory floor . |
| 10 | question alone I do n't know whether the officers would want to respond to that last comment first . |
| 11 | Maybe we would want to listen to these proposals . ’ |
| 12 | If people get the impression that the education system is in a thoroughly depressed state , erm I would want to argue against that in general , but I think it is true that the short-term cutbacks have made everybody erm thoroughly anxious and miserable , anxious about their jobs , miserable about not being able to produce resources for education . |
| 13 | I would want to argue from this that rather than the combination of gender and text leading to a particular kind of meaning being produced , particular kinds of reading are being used to mark gender difference . |
| 14 | They will recognise it too in terms of higher charges than perhaps ideally we would want to impose for certain services which the city operates , whether it be sports pitches or whether to be brutal , it 's the cost of actually burying the dead . |
| 15 | There was a faint sticky feeling to it , as if it might trap you if you tried to struggle against it — but no one would want to struggle against this , thought Fenella , bemused with delight . |
| 16 | Erm conversely I I think we would want to look at individual proposals as they as they came forward , and see what landscaping proposals they have and er how they intend to mitigate any perhaps adverse er landscape er implications . |
| 17 | Write down a list of five things that you would want to achieve in that time . |
| 18 | Who would want to build on that bog ? |
| 19 | I imagine most people would want to get into this area in the smallest way and so with the smallest product , the postcard . |
| 20 | If fluke genes were passed on in snail eggs and sperms , the two bodies would evolve to become as one flesh . |
| 21 | They would need to insist on Eastern states meeting minimum labour standards as a pre-cursor to trading with the West . |
| 22 | These criteria are only intended to give a very general indication of the range of aspects of the work that would need to feature in any future evaluation . |
| 23 | Nothing near as tasty and tender as our … ’ and , her mouth overflowing with steak , beans and croquette potato , Mitzi named an Austrian breed Elisabeth had never heard of ( and did not imagine she would need to remember for future use ) . |
| 24 | He had seen Caballeros make his 3 and knew that unless the Spaniard cracked he would need to finish with two birdies himself . |
| 25 | If you keep soft water fish you would need to test for general hardness . |
| 26 | So you would need to eat between eighteen and thirty cakes to add 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat in a day . |
| 27 | These goals , and the methods of achieving them , would not be the same for all pupils , and hence the criteria for judging success would need to cater for this . |
| 28 | The letter said the Board of Inland Revenue would need to meet before any action could be taken , and BAe and Rover were guaranteed a hearing before action was taken . |
| 29 | ‘ We hope Mr Stein will be working for us long into the future and obviously in that case we would need to apply for another permit for him . |
| 30 | In 1990 the government expected a growth in imports of 25 per cent , so that exports would need to grow by 15 per cent in order to limit the fall in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990 to 2 per cent . |