Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " 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 | And although he would borrow happily enough to buy painting materials or drinks , he had his own sense of honour . |
| 3 | We would do well today to see that times to remember are consciously worked into the pattern of our lives . |
| 4 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They would do much better to rely just on their three selves . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At this point , Boswell decided he would hurry on ahead to secure their food and accommodation at Glenelg . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
| 18 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 19 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 20 | The Majority , whilst also favouring discipline for the poor , argued that voluntary workers would respond more flexibly to need than those limited by state regulations . |
| 21 | She was desperately thirsty and perhaps over a drink Fernando would calm down enough to open the gates for her to drive out and back to Palma . |
| 22 | After this break , they would go out again to help with the evening tasks amongst the stock . |
| 23 | The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance . |
| 24 | Later in the season he and Murti Lāl would come up here to gather rare medicinal herbs to take to sell in Aula in the autumn . |
| 25 | Resisting the sirens ' song from the Tory wets , she said that like Ulysses , another resister , she would come safely home to harbour . |
| 26 | ‘ But who would come out here to scribble on rock ? ’ asked Betty unanswerably . |
| 27 | They had listened meekly , shamed by his anger and , like children , trying to think of ways to please him ; but once he had left the billiard room he knew that the feuds would start once more to germinate . |
| 28 | It was the same when The Who smashed their gear at the end : everyone would turn up just to see them smash their gear and it was n't cool , because everybody knew they were going to do it . |
| 29 | In the meantime , since she could n't physically throw him out , she would find somewhere else to stay for the night . |