Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I could do I think they 're fascinating and important — but I would prefer instead actually to talk about Darwinism Darwin as a biologist , rather than Darwin as a philosopher or as a influencer of morals and religious beliefs and so on . |
| 2 | I would 've probably not 've been here if one had started to speak . |
| 3 | For if it had , then when those consequences failed we would know exactly where to revise . |
| 4 | An intelligent human would know enough not to go , um , where it was n't wanted , ’ said Nisodemus sourly . |
| 5 | And although he would borrow happily enough to buy painting materials or drinks , he had his own sense of honour . |
| 6 | We would do well today to see that times to remember are consciously worked into the pattern of our lives . |
| 7 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |
| 8 | My Lords , to those who er who have objected to erm a body of large numbers o o need to reduce it to sixteen er I would say that those on the er my Noble Friends on the front bench would do very well to give their attention to the possibility of reducing the number of the cabinet er to sixteen er er er I w er forebear from making er detailed suggestions |
| 9 | They would do much better to rely just on their three selves . |
| 10 | So though it is perfectly practicable to take a trip to Heiden by car ( a direct road leads from Rorschach ) you would do much better to leave the car behind , go along to the station of the Rorschach-Heiden mountain railway near the harbour , take a cogwheel train , sit back in one of the red coaches and enjoy the gradually changing view . |
| 11 | It is a classic example of the waste of local taxpayers ' money by a foolish council which would do much better to spend the money on the services for which it is statutorily responsible . |
| 12 | The person or creature — one of your sub-personalities — starts to argue with you , telling you all the reasons why you are wrong , and why you would do much better to believe that life is full of suffering ! |
| 13 | However , with a fairly small number of airframe changes and a reworked canopy area the Texan would clean up quickly to become the Zeke for the film . |
| 14 | At this point , Boswell decided he would hurry on ahead to secure their food and accommodation at Glenelg . |
| 15 | As we shall see in later sections , HARPY made sure , by structuring the grammar in particular ways , that a narrow portion would occur soon enough to prevent a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 16 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 17 | ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year . |
| 18 | This kind of award would create not merely fear , but despair . ’ |
| 19 | Of our neighbours I saw most of Robin McEwen , a man with a brilliant , mercurial mind , the most generous of hosts and companionable of men yet always hopelessly impractical : sometimes he would blow in unexpectedly to say hello , Kind Dog hat on head , green scarf billowing in the breeze , knees encased in worn plus-fours , always eager to engage in debate while taking a nip of Laphroaig against the cold . |
| 20 | Both branches would move steadily outwards to form the oceanic crust , which , as it got progressively further away from the ridge would rapidly acquire a thin veneer of deep sea sediments ( muds and clays , mixed up with myriads of tiny shells from planktonic organisms ) . |
| 21 | Now he would have even more cause to think he could use their past acquaintance as an excuse to be familiar with her . |
| 22 | In usual circumstances the Latvian match would have probably only have attracted around 5,000 loyal Northern Ireland supporters . |
| 23 | Radio broadcasting introduced a new dimension of communication in the 1920s , and television brought a hint of novelty to the late 1930s without revealing the overwhelming impact it would have when fully developed in the 1950s and after . |
| 24 | We should stress that all the six bureau were hand picked , there 's another 30 or so that we could have used and which would have quite probably delivered similar results . |
| 25 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 26 | er the building er effectively would have only just commenced at that stage |
| 27 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 28 | Contamination was calculated from the concentrations in the aspirated water ( Table IV ) ; this would have only minimally increased ( 0.2–7.4% ) these values , except for iron , for which the concentrations could therefore only be estimated ( 3.5 µM in normal gastric juice ) , assuming that about one third of the recorded values ( that is ca 1.7 µM ; Table III ) was a result of unavoidable contamination of samples . |
| 29 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 30 | Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own . |