Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I think I 'd just love to be alone with a nice book to read and a carol service on the wireless ! |
| 2 | I 'd just like to be able to repay her generosity . ’ |
| 3 | Well , he 'd just have to be disappointed … |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd still like to be able to call on you . ’ |
| 5 | Even when I stop idolising him , I 'd still like to be able to tell him what pleasure his lovely voice has given me all these Saturday evenings . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd really like to be able to speak like you , you know . |
| 7 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to stay out here , that 's all , and I would much prefer to be alone . ’ |
| 9 | I think Mr what I would like to see , I do n't want to go too far into the history , but I would just like to be sure that er bearing in mind this complex history given on behalf of those you are representing , that the views you are putting forward are the er current views of the Parish Council as expressed in their formal minutes . |
| 10 | Instead I would just like to be able to click a single button which means assigning a macro to an appropriate icon . |
| 11 | His life is very simple and he would not want to be rich . ’ |
| 12 | The Consumer Credit Trade Association is considering the NCC proposals , but Director John Patrick FICM said that his initial thoughts were that the CCTA would not want to be involved in collecting a levy . |
| 13 | Volenti would not appear to be applicable but the court might hold that Arthur has been contributorily negligent in respect of his injury and reduce damages accordingly . |
| 14 | However , as the Philips Report ( HMSO 1954 ) pointed out : ‘ The contribution to be expected from any likely postponement of retirement would not appear to be large in relation to total available manpower . ’ |
| 15 | Even in Oahu , where the solution is intense , the coastal limestone regions receive only about 1000 mm ( 25 in ) of rain a year and this would not appear to be sufficient to account for the amount of solution . |
| 16 | Similarly , for the teenage girl from a strongly Catholic family it might be particularly important that she avoid pregnancy in a relationship with a boy to whom she felt sure she would not like to be married . |
| 17 | ( As I write , I hesitate — I would not like to be disrespectful — but continue , because the picture would not otherwise be true , and I think that she , above all people , would agree that a description should be true . ) |
| 18 | It would not have to be advantageous in every possible case . |
| 19 | She would not claim to be content , because contentment came with having the man you loved lying beside you on a cold night ; it came with that certain wonderful intimacy which Beth had experienced once long ago , and which was lost for ever . |
| 20 | So , sometimes we get this feeling of empathy and do things with a horse that would not seem to be wise or sensible ; but we ‘ know ’ that it will be all right , and it is ! |
| 21 | His RCM contact tactfully pointed out that , unless he started to buy his own clothes out of his savings , he would not learn to be self-reliant . |
| 22 | In this regard it was estimated that the state of the established supply would be such that this additional land would not require to be available for development until 1991 . |
| 23 | References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment . |
| 24 | There would thus have to be drastic cuts in public expenditure , particularly in the soaring cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 25 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 26 | Whether it would still continue to be free standing and well removed in terms of a second er second increment . |
| 27 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 28 | In other words , the old view that women 's crime is physically explainable would still appear to be influential , despite the fact that there is no real evidence for such explanations . |
| 29 | This search for increased value would probably need to be subject to constraints reflecting ‘ soft rationing ’ and the need for balanced growth , which are already implicit within strategic portfolio analysis . |
| 30 | It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear . |