Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 2 | He would prefer to turn a blind eye to the problem of asylum seekers around the world . |
| 3 | Although it is true that the general law would in most cases not permit assignment by a buyer to a less creditworthy assignee ( since creditworthiness would be an important factor relating to the identity of the contracting party ) many sellers would prefer to insert a non-assignment clause and avoid the argument . |
| 4 | He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I would prefer to have a concrete base , sides and back to these tanks , but wonder how to seal the front viewing glass . , . |
| 8 | Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds . |
| 9 | Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance |
| 10 | Several prime ministers made it clear that they would want to see a radical extension of the Community powers and resources to help poorer regions and social groups as they moved to monetary union . |
| 11 | Who would want to shoot a dead man ? |
| 12 | Who would want to buy a stuffed crocodile ? |
| 13 | Under gentle pressure he conceded that Riddle had mentioned the possibility of marriage and said that in this circumstance he would want to make a fresh will . ’ |
| 14 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 15 | Well certainly I mean , one would want to have a substantial majority in favour of a call to issue it . |
| 16 | If you wanted to represent a series of board positions you would need to use a 3 dimensional array . |
| 17 | Harry had realized at an early stage , however , that he would need to keep a clear head if he was to remember all he was told . |
| 18 | In a more localized example , a county planning department would need to consider a wide range of environmental , economic , political , social and spatial factors when deciding on a site for a public service utility such as a thermal electricity generating station . |
| 19 | She says she has much more chance at this school of getting the qualifications she would need to become a social worker or a journalist ( she feels there a lot of good black journalists around but not enough women ) . |
| 20 | The teacher would need to play a full role in the revision activity , monitoring and providing remedial help wherever necessary . |
| 21 | By that time the householder would need to buy a new collector . |
| 22 | I would need to make a two-into-one jack socket for the speaker — would this cause problems ? |
| 23 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 24 | You would need to have a sound grasp of English history before you began ; and you would need , at every point , to relate your study of the literature of any given period to the state and development of the language . |
| 25 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 26 | Borja announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that in order to concentrate on domestic economic and social problems Ecuador would seek to negotiate a 70 per cent reduction in principal payments on its $11,100 million foreign debt in line with the " Brady plan " for voluntary debt reduction [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 27 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 28 | It is this we must grasp if we are to challenge those who would seek to impose a tight curriculum upon all children . |
| 29 | This would appear to reflect a chronic tendency to underestimate the enemy : Hailey 's record in dealing with political agitation in India suggests , like that of Lord Irwin , with whom he was intimate , a pattern of masterly inactivity arising from over-confidence , followed by repression when the reality of the threat at last became apparent . |
| 30 | A qualitative interpretation of the fact that mixed sequence single strand oligomers ( Table 1 ) have smaller ΔH and ΔS terms than the oligo or polymeric homo sequences , would appear to reflect a closer analogy in the latter case with the order found in a crystal . |