Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An amendment which would effectively have outlawed abortion , by extending the provisions of a clause on the right to life to include life from the moment of conception , was defeated . |
| 2 | Its members would effectively have to buy milk supplies from their main competitor . |
| 3 | Your book reviewer in the February edition of Canoeist resorts to some very dangerous reasoning : ‘ I … would rather have polluted water I can share than pay for clean water to be used exclusively by others ’ |
| 4 | Mr Wiggins added he would rather have seen road fund duty — raised from £110 to £125 — scrapped and replaced with even more substantial hikes in petrol prices than the 12p a gallon ( unleaded ) and 15p ( leaded ) set yesterday . |
| 5 | England would rather have had Thorfinn in Scotia , I can tell you , than Siward or Norway . ’ |
| 6 | She is Pamela Anderson , a blonde surfer with all the right equipment , and the girl recently voted in a magazine as the lifeguard you would most like to receive mouth-to-mouth from . |
| 7 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 8 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |
| 9 | Some of his staff had urged that he abandon the Duchess 's ball , but such an act , he knew , would only have offered encouragement to the Emperor 's many supporters in Brussels and could even have prompted the wholesale desertion of Belgian troops . |
| 10 | The girl , whoever she was , despite the aristocratic looks and fine body which had at first misled them , would only have found houseroom within the palace compound as an under-servant . |
| 11 | I do n't know why it would suddenly start losing pressure . |
| 12 | But in terms of the globules of fat content they would obviously start to lose quality . ’ |
| 13 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 14 | Since this has cropped up here I would just like to draw attention to it . |
| 15 | Having er , been invited to attend the first ever in County Council Hearing I 'm delighted with it 's as well received as it 's had and I would just like to clarify point C which is after the relative sort of consultation with local members and the whole review of meeting er , who will be present at the review meeting ? |
| 16 | We , in the Midlands , support the role that the Health and Safety Review document puts forward , and in concluding , President , I would just like to pay tribute to my regional committee and the work that they did , in getting the review off the ground in the first place . |
| 17 | There was no electronic monitor , so Shelley would just have to check pulse and blood-pressure regularly . |
| 18 | Soon , she felt , she would just have to relinquish control and let it carry her . |
| 19 | Even the excision of the entire limbic brain would not suffice to remove aggression . |
| 20 | It would not do to keep Minister Chao waiting . ’ |
| 21 | Who would not thrill to see Alderman Foodbotham of Bradford rise at last from the mountain tomb at Northowram , where he lies awaiting the summons of destiny , to assume the united crown of Deira and Elmet , and soon , in his irresistible advance , the crown of all Northumbria ? |
| 22 | just that issue was raised that we would not want to see demolition of Franklyns that block held up by this . |
| 23 | If they are you would not want to raise output above its natural level because there has been no rise in your relative price . |
| 24 | Hydrogen , helium and methane would not condense to form cloud particles at the pressures and temperatures through the cloud regions and therefore their relative abundances apply throughout the atmosphere . |
| 25 | Theft would not cover obtaining ownership by deception . |
| 26 | Even when equality money is paid by the wife ( see Precedent 57 ) to the husband , the transaction would not appear to make registration compulsory as the dealing can not be described as a sale . |
| 27 | You would think that most reasonable people would not choose to provoke conflict . |
| 28 | Phil Gallie , Conservative MP for Ayr , would not like to see VAT extended and made representations , on behalf of the local press , during the current round of pre-Budget consultations . |
| 29 | She would not like to abandon journalism altogether . |
| 30 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |