Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission would exist essentially to carry out the bidding of the Council . |
| 2 | It was decided that George should ride down and rob the drowsing boy while Joseph would stay behind to head off any aid he might be able to summon . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to go back to Bradford and ask the authority one or two questions . |
| 4 | And , unless you are that raving genius we have met before , you would do well to analyse exactly what it is your detective novel is about before you embark on detailed plotting , let alone the actual writing . |
| 5 | You are by nature a fluid and adventurous sign , and you would do well to keep more than one iron in the fire in 1993 . |
| 6 | That was plainly my bent and that I would do well to follow up this line of art rather than branch out into some other road of work . |
| 7 | She would do well to learn more , from books or from other parents , about the stage through which the step-children are passing . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't know how we people of World 's End live , ’ she said quietly , ‘ so perhaps you would do well to stay indoors out of the way of any trouble . ’ |
| 9 | Developers would do well to scan as wide a selection of these publications as possible . |
| 10 | Some think that the universities would do well to look outwards for reassurance about their research role : in particular to the Max Planck Institutes , which , while universally praised as centres of excellence , have structural problems of their own . |
| 11 | Students with limited time to complete an essay would do well to begin here , although they are likely to get a British perspective and , inevitably , some less than comprehensive coverage . |
| 12 | One word of warning though : if you are someone whose daily life involves a strong competitive element , you would do well to avoid too much in the way of competitive sport ( squash , tennis and so on ) as your form of exercise as these will only tend to maintain an already high level of stress . |
| 13 | She would do well to get out of the area before they turned up . |
| 14 | With his particular ambitions , he would do well to consider how best to shorten his mortgage term . |
| 15 | But Kingdon 's knowledge of the diversity of African animal life and environments enables him to cast a light on human evolution that many specialists would do well to consider seriously ( despite reservations about details ) and that many others will simply enjoy . |
| 16 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 17 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 18 | Mr Gummer is inclined to give a snap reply to his critics , when he would do better to check carefully what they have said . |
| 19 | The Front 's traditional candidate in the town told reporters that ‘ my friend Jean-Marie would do better to stand elsewhere ’ explaining that Niçois voters did not trust outsiders ! |
| 20 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 21 | They would do better to rethink why they regulate banks at all . |
| 22 | The spokesman said an investigation would begin today to find out what caused the fire . |
| 23 | We can not hope that Protestant and Catholic would begin peacefully to coexist once peace-keeping British soldiers had departed . |
| 24 | It would take longer to put together but it would endure . ’ |
| 25 | Narrow neutrality consists in helping or hindering them to an equal degree in those activities and regarding those resources that they would wish neither to engage in nor to acquire but for the conflict . |
| 26 | Many can go on to lead virtually independent lives in ‘ core and cluster ’ schemes even if the handicap is severe , so that ideally the handicapped person would leave home to live independently after leaving school . |
| 27 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |