Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Confined to their present role , trade unions would remain a response to the exploitation , actual or hypothetical , of employees by employers — a response which meritocratic benevolence would , if performance matched intention , progressively reduce to a satisfied silence . |
| 2 | He would chase down green horses and harness-break them , then Mr. Mendez would buy what he wanted and Russell and two White Mountain Apaches who rode for him would deliver the horses to Delgado 's or one of the other relay stations on the way south to Benson . |
| 3 | Critics would stress the extent to which the children 's freedom to map out their lives for themselves , to make genuine preferences on the basis of a range of possibilities denied them , had been stifled . |
| 4 | The choice of a serial implement tat ion for a computer would affect the architecture to the extent that we must choose a representation for negative numbers that can economically be processed in a serial manner . |
| 5 | Only a headcase would prefer a ball to her . |
| 6 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 7 | There are some whose fear of instability is so great that they would prefer a return to the old divisions . |
| 8 | Rosenthal is a national hero in Israel and at 29 may be tempted by the thought of a permanent return home even though he would prefer a move to France or Spain . |
| 9 | ‘ PopCon has been doing research all over the world to establish that the majority of prospective parents would prefer a son to a daughter , and many would be prepared to undergo minor medical procedures to ensure that they got their wish , including the abortion of a female fetus , ’ Dorothy told a hushed audience in a room at a secret address in North London . |
| 10 | ’ , ‘ My mother would prefer the name to be … |
| 11 | Twenty-two out of these 29 said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care ; the remainder said they would like increased care at home . |
| 12 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 13 | They would prefer the leadership to be decided at the annual autumn conference . |
| 14 | He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to . |
| 15 | The absence of the neural modulation of the contraction would enhance the response to CCK-8 and bethanechol as found in our experiments . |
| 16 | The Steering Group believes that the development of Departmental Road Safety Plans would enhance the contribution to casualty reduction which can be made by Regional Council and Police personnel . |
| 17 | The buyer would want the price to be well below the value of his monopoly , to maximise his profits . |
| 18 | It is an intriguing thought that both would want the host to be sexually attractive . |
| 19 | Moderator four five nine Moderator I welcome the number two in the deliverance but I would make a plea to the er panel that this leaflet be a very simple leaflet and it not be brief , but in fact be quite lengthy . |
| 20 | The widespread feeling that the cancellation amounted to a humiliation for Japan was underlined by reports from Russia 's ITAR-Tass news agency on Sept. 13 , which stated that Yeltsin would visit South Korea on Nov. 12-13 and would make a trip to China in mid-December . |
| 21 | Miyazawa had earlier tried to appease right-wing nationalist sentiment by announcing on Aug. 9 that , in a reversal of his previously stated position , he would make a visit to the Yasukuni shrine , Japan 's most venerated memorial to Japan 's war dead , particularly those killed in the Pacific War . |
| 22 | The loss of land plants would make a difference to the chemistry of the atmosphere ( and of course would be a tragedy ) . |
| 23 | VP : a statement has empirical meaning iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , which , since a statement is verifiable , on this approach , iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , is equivalent to : VP 1 : a statement has empirical meaning iff it is verifiable . |
| 24 | VP : a statement has empirical meaning iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , which , since a statement is verifiable , on this approach , iff its truth would make a difference to the evidence of our senses , is equivalent to : VP 1 : a statement has empirical meaning iff it is verifiable . |
| 25 | Within the English tradition of radical , ‘ Marx-influenced ’ , sociology the tendency has been to concede that social mobility is in principle important ( large-scale mobility would make a difference to one 's analysis ) , but to deny that really significant social mobility has taken place . |
| 26 | Can the applicability of procedural protection be affected by the likelihood that the hearing would make a difference to the result that the tribunal has reached in this particular instance ? |
| 27 | It would make no sense to booby-trap the weapon in these circumstances . |
| 28 | It would make no difference to him . |
| 29 | ‘ They said flotation would make no difference to AMV , and they kid themselves it 's still the same , but it is not . |
| 30 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |