Example sentences of "would [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We would need to say so .
2 But I would like to say just one word about what I felt about the character of George Albert Smith .
3 Erm , before we leave item one D , sir , there are two things that Hambledon would like to say both on the q questions that the Chairman asked , capacity , and also on the principal of breaking down the Greater York figure i into the constituent districts , erm , the first point , on capacity , erm , we feel that we have a very limited capacity , er to accommodate development needs advising in Greater York , you 'll see from our statement that we have just two settlements an , sorry three settlements in two parishes er within the defined Greater York area , Shipton , Beningborough , and Overton .
4 No-one will deny — and even if they did , few would dare say so — that Clough has been a magnificently accomplished football manager , blessed with an alchemy denied to others .
5 Therefore one would have to say either that the power elite is a mere statistical phenomenon , a category , an aggregate of disparate individuals who happen to share some socially relevant resources , or that it is united by its objective interest .
6 Is the Republican Movement the I R A , I would have to say logically of course it 's the I R A.
7 I have to say that if this room was filled by the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland and they were pushing me very hard about divorce , I would have to say very clearly that their fear that civil divorce will make marital breakdown worse , or enhance or facilitate it — my answer would be : No , it will make very little difference .
8 It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to .
9 At that point the nurses would have said well , yes we can see the reasons because we 're nearly doctors as well , and the administrator would have been left high and dry .
10 Or somebody would have said well we wanted brown bread , not white bread .
11 So I did it anyway cos later on you would have said well you could 've taped me if you want like you always do so I did it anyway .
12 But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’
13 Well i is n't if you 'd asked me last August when we bought the I would have said probably Radio Brittany or Radio Rouane
14 He would have said more , but it was too late .
15 As an example , when Family Allowances were finally accepted by the Treasury it was partly to avoid the risk of wartime inflation through wage rises and the more expensive — and some would have said more efficacious — solution of a minimum wage .
16 If the questioner had wanted these he would have said so .
17 No , or he would have said so .
18 If they had killed their victim to teach the Milettis a lesson they would have said so , even bragged about it .
19 Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves …
20 ‘ I make it quite clear anything I say I would have said regardless of the result of this present case , ’ he told the court .
21 Oisin , who knew a little of the theory of sorcery — ‘ Although I have never aspired to its practice , ’ he would have said modestly — knew that with the emerging of the first , the others would have gained strength and confidence .
22 An eighty-tonner built of pinewood from the forests of the island of Samos , she had a dazzling white hull which contrasted strongly — some would have said violently — with her vermilion gunwale .
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