Example sentences of "would [vb infin] to be [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to be busy and I could n't just stop my life after tennis . |
| 2 | I 'd have to be honest and say , yes , I would n't argue , ’ says a married 35-yearold estate agent . |
| 3 | She thought of the local cemetery : if they all woke up , they 'd come round demanding their houses back ; they 'd have to be sheltered and fed and appeased with promises . |
| 4 | You would need to be selective and have many to choose from if you wanted to make regular use of this kind of material . |
| 5 | Unless any cash payment is passing which is required by the husband for the purchase of another property , a contract would appear to be unnecessary and is certainly not required if the transaction is to be carried out following a court order ( whether by consent or otherwise ) as application can always be made to the court for the terms of the order to be carried out ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 6 | Ebenezer Scrooge would appear to be alive and well and has been reincarnated in the guise of the Court of Bank of Ireland . |
| 7 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 8 | However , if something enters the vehicle and crushes the plaintiff backwards against the seat , the failure to wear the seat belt would appear to be irrelevant and fail the test of causation . |
| 9 | The severance of communication passages would appear to be proportionate and reasonable as a response to the threat faced during these wars . |
| 10 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 11 | The plan 's logic suggests that curators in the four cities would compete to be independent and daring , that the four venues would give exhibitions more attention than individual biennial shows and that the public would benefit from a greater exposure to work judged to be the finest of contemporary art . |
| 12 | The search would have to be illegal and secret — the sort of operation she knew Urquhart 's organisation carried out regularly under the generous blanket of ‘ national security ’ . |
| 13 | Richardson said : ‘ When we won the title at Highbury , George Graham drummed it into us that we would have to be resilient and consistent . |
| 14 | Screening would have to be systematic and sensitive to what might be termed trouble indicators , of which the following provide some examples . |
| 15 | He could see no way out and in his anguish he began to think of doing himself in ; the method he would use would have to be quick and simple . |
| 16 | To this unheroic proposal Charles retorted passionately that ‘ rather than go back , I would wish to be dead and buried 20 feet underground ’ , but Murray 's reputation was by now such , and his arguments so well mustered , that he won over his colleagues . |
| 17 | Rachel would try to be rational and calm . |
| 18 | Although he stops short of locating particular disciplines within this typology , one can see that for example the natural sciences would tend to be hard and pure , engineering would be hard and applied , the arts are likely to be soft , and so on . |
| 19 | Therefore the use of s.52 agreements to achieve odour prevention and abatement would seem to be unaffected and still legitimate . |
| 20 | They have effects which would seem to be self-defeating and counter-effective , and are probably in contradiction with the United Nations ’ own principles concerning the freedoms of information and knowledge . |
| 21 | He saw a certain level of crime as functional from the point of view of social order , but beyond that level it would cease to be functional and become dangerous or pathological . |
| 22 | But the argument which carried the day in favour of providing more elementary studies was that courses of the Chapter III type in rural areas would prove to be attractive and would lead to more demanding studies and higher standards in subsequent years . |