Example sentences of "would [adv] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather have a little shop , a holiday home and be getting married and having kids . |
| 2 | Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro . |
| 3 | In the first flush of youthful passion , and in the imminence of war , Leslie had vowed that he would rather have a few years with me than eternal life without me . |
| 4 | But when the chips are down and he 's feeling blue , Charlie sees himself as ‘ The Maryhill Hermit ’ , a victim of his public image , and a man who would rather have a quiet night with the wife than a night out with the wild bunch . |
| 5 | Many people would rather have a stiff drink to help them sleep , than take a sleeping tablet for their insomnia . |
| 6 | However , there are those who take the view that , on the day of the actual birthday , they would rather have a smaller celebration with the immediate family . |
| 7 | More than half would rather have a shorter summer break and more holidays at other times . |
| 8 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 9 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 10 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
| 11 | This , they noted , was particularly so in the German companies which would presumably have a comparative advantage over British firms in this respect anyway . |
| 12 | Fortunately she had n't finished unloading the car , so would only have a single hold-all to carry back downstairs . |
| 13 | If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window . |
| 14 | The innovation of Private Eye ensured that deference , if not quite dead , would henceforth have a hard time . |
| 15 | What would happen is the prescription would be written and they 'd either get it from the chemist who would constantly have a stock coming in or the hospital . |
| 16 | he would perhaps have a " certain historical place in the literary history of our period " , and Herbert Read recalled how he might on occasions say , " Valery , Yeats and I … " . |
| 17 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |
| 18 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 19 | Managing director Kevin Eakin said that while the half percentage point cut would not have a dramatic effect , it was part of a series of cuts all in the right direction . |
| 20 | So far everything had gone our way , but it was hard to believe that the wily old campaigner would not have a few more tricks up his sleeve . |
| 21 | They would not have a great choice of subjects in their fourth and fifth years . |
| 22 | If the Auxetophone had not existed , we would not have a record of Lord Northcliffe 's voice today . |
| 23 | The Keynesian concludes , therefore , that an increase in the money supply would not have a marked effect on economic activity since : ( a ) the money supply only influences economic activity indirectly via interest rates , and the latter may not be significantly affected anyway because all parts of the financial market bear the burden of adjustment ; and ( b ) investment expenditures may not be very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 24 | How can you be sure that any future development of these sites would not have a deleterious effect on the conservation area , the listed buildings , the archaeology and the natural history ? |
| 25 | As president of the company , Branson would not have a seat on the board . |
| 26 | At one stage , Fields had threatened to pull out of the arrangement altogether and find a new partner , until the CAA made it clear that Fields would not have a licence without Virgin 's involvement . |
| 27 | The table is built up by calculating p(0) , and hence the probability that any given address would not have a home record allocated to it . |
| 28 | ‘ You would not have a hsiang p'ien , by any chance ? ’ |
| 29 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 30 | She had been left before when she was eight years old , but if she allowed herself to stay with Alain , to love him , she would not have a whole childhood to recover from it . |