Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Gedge would justifiably argue that his songs were neither personal statements about himself or a manifesto on which others should base their lives .
2 In terms of electronic records , compliance with rule 24 would effectively ensure that the issue of document authenticity had been dealt with pre-trial .
3 For it would effectively mean that Britain had gone bust .
4 Cable said yesterday the company would eventually upgrade and operate the long distance and international communications systems .
5 This was an ordeal which , like all others , would eventually end and although she had made up her mind to suffer it , nothing obliged her to accord it so much as one shred of thought ; or memory .
6 If the police did n't find him first he would eventually wake and wander away .
7 Without our minds and bodies to leech from , men would eventually shrivel and die .
8 It was Fred Wilton who devised the theory that if carp were offered HNV baits over a long enough period , i.e. through extensive pre-baiting , they would eventually recognise that they were good for them , and seek out these baits in preference to low protein types such as bread , worms , potatoes or , indeed , even natural food .
9 And I was sure that , given time and patience on my part , I would eventually emerge and flower to give a rich new dimension to our partnership .
10 In his careful and extremely clear judgment , which I would gladly adopt as my own , Phillips J. dealt with all those points .
11 As they expanded , the energy of the field in them would slowly decrease until the inflationary expansion changed to an expansion like that in the hot big bang model .
12 The parlous state of England enters the poem , in fact , in a direct way : " Dust in the air suspended/Marks the place where a story ended , " was an evocation of the debris which hung in the air after a bombing , and then " would slowly descend and cover one 's sleeves and coat with fine white ash " .
13 And they had been asked if they wanted to stay in the fort , since more soldiers had now been put into it , but they thought , since they could n't fight , they would rather go and hide with their people .
14 They would rather go and burgle a house that is n't alarmed , erm because they do n't know what type of alarm you 've got there .
15 He also noted that Baldwin would rather walk and gossip , or withdraw for a Sunday evening to sit alone with Mrs Baldwin , than work on Cabinet papers or even a speech .
16 Obviously an optimistic bachelor , unaware that , one , a Pakamac of any colour will clash with jeans , baggy jackets and Doc Martens , two , youngsters refuse to wear any kind of protective clothing on the grounds of street cred , expense and pig-headedness and , three , the clincher , they would rather emigrate than wear something bought by a parent .
17 No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place .
18 All knowledge of life and lives , and indeed of history , is a good in itself , and seems likely to inform literary intelligence ; and in addition Amis 's novels would rather confuse if thought to be the work of an early Tudor writer .
19 Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different .
20 Other forms of credit , personal loans and hire purchase are still expensive , though , and consumers on recent evidence would rather haggle than borrow .
21 I would rather starve than work for somebody else .
22 She begged Charlie to sell Granpa 's old barrow to raise another pound , but Charlie 's reply was always the same — ‘ Never ’ — before adding that he would rather starve and leave the relic to rot in the back yard than let another hand wheel it away .
23 She says she would rather die than do that again .
24 Perhaps if I lived in Bath I would have momentary doubts , but anywhere else in the country , I would rather die than not vote Labour .
25 As he wrote to Eulalia , abbess of Shaftesbury : ‘ I am so harassed in the archbishopric that if it were possible to do so without guilt , I would rather die than continue in it ’ .
26 Because I would rather die than ever again go to church . ’
27 An attractive young lady was taken to him but Louis would have nothing to do with her , saying that he would rather die than commit the sin of adultery , even for medicinal purposes only .
28 " So many people in Nubia said they would rather die than move .
29 Not even for his father 's sake or his honour 's sake now , only because he would rather die than give Isambard best .
30 There are so many versions of it already , and now does n't seem the right time to do it — I think I would rather wait until I was more established , and have something different to say about it . ’
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