Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] would [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think I would choose to be so ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If there is no room here , there is plenty up on the hill , and where do you think I would like to be ? ’ |
| 3 | Any man who 'd try and attack you would have to be mad ! |
| 4 | If the Puritans refused to compromise they would have to be ruthlessly suppressed . |
| 5 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 6 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 7 | Kate says she would like to be able to take more of a hands-on approach to her job . |
| 8 | The Oscar-winning actress told the YP : ‘ To follow Denis Healey 's act you would need to be a genius . ’ |
| 9 | Then , quite out of the blue at the end of 1983 , they had a letter from the Palace saying that the Princess had decided she would like to be their patron . |
| 10 | Surprisingly for such a seemingly small , fragile machine , Vne is 110 kts , but I 'll wager you would need to be pointing almost vertically downhill to achieve such a mind-numbing speed in the Aeronca . |
| 11 | There was no need to labour that , de Burgh knew well enough how delicately the business of displacing him would have to be undertaken . |
| 12 | He described the changes underway in the country as exciting and says he would like to be in the country at such a momentous time . |
| 13 | Hence , to issue new shares at a substantial discount to the market price and then underwrite it would appear to be a case of double indemnity in which the primary insurer is assured of a very small probability of having to make a compensation payment . |
| 14 | He was a bully , he flew into rages , but to do what Albert believed he had done he would have to be wicked , and Carrie did n't think he was that . |
| 15 | If such a duty was to be owed it would have to be based on an express or implied term in the contract of employment . |
| 16 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 17 | However , if a decision to cancel was going to be made it would have to be made now . |
| 18 | In 1380 it had been the turn of Thomas , earl of Buckingham , uncle of Richard II , to lead what would prove to be the last English expedition to France in the fourteenth century , while in 1383 the religious divisions of Europe were underlined by the sending of a force led by Henry Despenser , bishop of Norwich , into Flanders under the guise of a crusade . |
| 19 | Walking up the path to the front door on legs that felt slightly wobbly Sally realised she would have to be satisfied with that . |
| 20 | If that ignorance still exists it would have to be dispelled . |
| 21 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |
| 22 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 23 | Sadie was wary of my other two dogs ; Mindy decided she would try to be nice to her , while Ben just wanted to play . |
| 24 | They appealed against their convictions and , while their appeals were pending , were permitted to continue working , although their employer decided that in the event of the appeal failing they would have to be dismissed . |
| 25 | Paddy began the week saying he would like to be Prime Minister . |
| 26 | As the level of county commitment to social education lessens it would seem to be a time for us as members of local parish , town and diocesan communities to look at the priority given to such work with our own young people . |
| 27 | Lord — was a harmless man , with hardly any land , so they decided it would have to be him . |
| 28 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 29 | If there is a common underlying theme or thread it would seem to be the unstated assumption that ‘ anyone can make it if they try , and if they conform to the rules ’ ; those who fail must suffer from some congenital lack of capacities , or be of an alien disposition . |
| 30 | But she knew she would have to be a great deal more in need of male company to tolerate anyone like Corporal Billings . |