Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Coupland is the type of fellow you would want handling these matters . |
| 2 | Finally , in August 1987 , SAVE wrote a firm and formal letter to the Secretary of State stating that , if the Department refused to list the building , SAVE would consider taking legal action . |
| 3 | Special deposits would continue to be used as a means of regulation , but the Bank indicated that in the future it would consider using special deposits in a more flexible way . |
| 4 | The issue was raised during the recent presentations of the annual results for the company when GBW managing director was asked whether Guinness would consider issuing such scrip dividends . |
| 5 | Coun Dixon said where possible the council would consider introducing hard standing areas where people had no alternative for parking their cars . |
| 6 | They asked us whether we would consider releasing this record . |
| 7 | As chancellor , he told the Independent that he would consider cutting public spending or raising indirect taxes in order to sustain a balanced budget . |
| 8 | ‘ a management tool comprising a systematic , documented , periodic and objective evaluation of how well environmental organisation , management and equipment are performing with the aim of helping to safeguard the environment by : ( i ) facilitating management control of environmental practices ; and ( ii ) assessing compliance with company policies , which would include meeting regulatory requirements ’ . |
| 9 | Much as I would enjoy debating this matter with the hon. Gentleman , whom I might also call my hon. Friend , I do not wish to go down this path . |
| 10 | In our last letter you will remember we were concerned about what size of house we would have , how the children would settle in at school , how Jack would feel leaving paid employment . |
| 11 | Early this year the Ministry of Health and Welfare ( MHW ) announced that it would begin making regular payments to haemophiliacs infected with HIV . |
| 12 | Crime and Punishment was different in that Dostoevsky never supposed lots of people would begin committing Raskolnikov-type murders ; Danilov doing so was enough to produce from him the exclamation ‘ It has happened ! ’ |
| 13 | And we would go through a song and everybody would keep trying different things . |
| 14 | In a resolution published by the republic 's official press , it was also announced that the Ukraine would stop building nuclear power plants altogether . |
| 15 | In early December 1989 Malan had stated that the SADF would stop making cross-border raids and that there was no longer any need to support anti-government groups in other countries . |
| 16 | What does my right hon. Friend think that we could do to stop the drug being imported into this country , or arranging some reciprocal arrangement whereby we would stop importing Dutch cheese or some such thing ? |
| 17 | By focusing on this and other problems that USCAR believes are well-suited to collaborative research , the administration would avoid disrupting current plans by Detroit . |
| 18 | Just after the war began the prime minister was asked by a Conservative backbencher to condemn the BBC for announcing that it would avoid calling British troops ‘ our troops ’ . |
| 19 | I would avoid changing this team . |
| 20 | As a matter of common courtesy , for example , a teacher would avoid giving private coaching to child in a colleague 's class . |
| 21 | Round-the-clock nursing , such as Elinor is getting here , would mean overseeing four nurses , organizing their schedules , plus providing meals , transport and the rest of it . ’ |
| 22 | Phase one would mean moving senior citizens to another part and developing a worship centre , hostel for business women and community centre with day care for children , and a feeding programme for the poor . |
| 23 | To follow the logic of his thought would mean banning any form of contact between men and women where women have authority over men . |
| 24 | It follows that , contextual substitutions apart , naming symbols can never be entirely replaced by descriptive phrases , for this would mean substituting non-rigid designators for rigid ones , which might very well result in a change of truth-value of the propositions concerned . |
| 25 | The setting of targets would be wrong because it would mean exercising positive discrimination , whereby not necessarily all jobs would go to those with the right and proper talents to do them . |
| 26 | That would mean crossing most brands of psychology and economics off the list of social sciences . |
| 27 | ( 14 May 1778 ) In the same letter Mozart informed his father that he had unofficially been offered the post of organist at Versailles which , if he were to accept , would mean spending six months of the year in Versailles and the remaining six months wherever he liked . |
| 28 | Thus parents might decide to get the baby into a routine and this would mean imposing some sort of 24-hour cycle upon the child . |
| 29 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |
| 30 | However , if you consider one large modern power station , that would require approximately one thousand windmills each the size of the largest electricity pylons we see these days , and since the best sites for wind energy are on hilltops , where the wind is strongest , or around the coast , where again it 's strong , this would require placing large numbers of windmills on the best hilltop views or beautiful coasting situations , and I think that would be as unacceptable as would an explosion in nuclear power stations — sorry , I do n't mean a — expansion in nuclear power stations . |