Example sentences of "would [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five or six in one part of the hall would create a din , and when Blackshirt stewards approached to eject them scores of Red colleagues would arise to join in the battle . |
| 2 | I would prefer to go in the kop , but failing that I 'd like to try the new East stand . |
| 3 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |
| 4 | He saw the opportunity to play the peace card and the moderate rearmament card at the same time , fortified by the prospect that in times of trouble the public would prefer to vote for an established Government rather than a peculiarly unknown opposition . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the average Chief would prefer to do without the glory ! ’ |
| 6 | It is said that , at the third defendant 's instance , it was proposed to raise finance for C.M.C. from a lender ( ‘ B.M.T. ’ ) and that the third defendant became managing director because B.M.T. would prefer to deal with a man having a proven business record rather than a musician . |
| 7 | However , it is difficult to say if this is desirable from the residents ' point of view , or whether they would prefer to live in a mixed group of people with differing levels of disability ; when asked , most patients express a preference for being with others who do not have behavioural problems . |
| 8 | According to a survey of property valuers , 25% of those searching for a new home would prefer to live in an Avenue , while 20% would like a Lane . |
| 9 | Research has shown that 80 per cent of the population would prefer to live in the country rather than in a city or urban town . |
| 10 | It is not only a difficult job to attempt to integrate these but also one that might have opposition from users who would prefer to keep to a successful , if limited , system . |
| 11 | The responses indicated that 28 per cent would prefer to buy through a building society ; 27 per cent said they would buy from a salesman in their own home . |
| 12 | A year ago 37 per cent of individuals indicated that would prefer to buy through a salesman , while 20 per cent preferred building societies . |
| 13 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 14 | Polite noises are all that Mr Kaifu and his colleagues would prefer to make about the ‘ Japan Sea development zone ’ . |
| 15 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 16 | ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’ |
| 17 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 18 | although he would want to return to the question of public spending savings , he said that the report was a very thorough examination and also exceptionally well written . |
| 19 | Who would want to cook with an oven such as this ? |
| 20 | In an enclosed community such as Maubisson who would want to confess to a drunken idiot like Waldegrave ? |
| 21 | And who but a megalomaniac would want to live on the set for a Hammer horror movie ? ’ |
| 22 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 23 | What , do you have any idea what sort of social work you would want to do in the end , or not really ? |
| 24 | This is a much more difficult job than connecting into uPVC stack — sand is possibly a job that you would want to leave to a plumber . |
| 25 | ‘ No-one in his right mind would want to revert to the horrible inequality of the Victorian era or anything like that , ’ Leo said earnestly . |
| 26 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 27 | The council was doubtful whether the public would want to pay for the changes . |
| 28 | And while no carrier would want to be bound by terms and conditions other than those on the receipt message he sent , no transferee would want to pay for an electronic bill whose terms and conditions are other than those he received . |
| 29 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |
| 30 | On the face of it such legislation seemed unnecessary ; after all , who in America would want to trade with a country like Iran ? |