Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd give a great deal , ’ Flavia said , ‘ to know about you , to know what your life is really like ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd need a great deal more money before I could start up my own stud farm here . |
| 3 | Or trying to , but I 'd have a great deal more chance of success if people did n't keep trying to drag the whole sordid mess out into the open . |
| 4 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 5 | I would place a great deal of emphasis on my own impressions , the comments of people in authority and I would focus on the key personalities in the ‘ drama ’ . |
| 6 | And I would have a great deal of sympathy with that view , quite frankly . |
| 7 | Well , at least one good thing would come out of this trip , she decided philosophically — she would know a great deal more about Denmark 's capital city by the time she returned to England . |
| 8 | ‘ In Berlin , where I come from , oh yes many years ago , before those foul Nazis besmirched the country , they would have said of you that you would make a great beauty , a grande dame sans merci . |
| 9 | You would make a great electronic wall chart of the Domain , eh ? |
| 10 | ‘ When you are with the only woman — the only one you think there is for that moment — you must love her and know her body as you would think a great musician would orchestrate a divine theme . |
| 11 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 12 | We could share all the money I earn — and I believe we 'd make a great deal . ’ |
| 13 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 14 | Dick and I are ordinary people , but I think we would make a great team and dream up something far more interesting than most of the claptrap stuffing up the biography departments of bookstores . |
| 15 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 16 | If this government channelled its resources against employers who disregard the health and safety legislation as much as it channels its energy at the trade unions through the Employment Act I 'm sure we would see a great decrease in accidents and |
| 17 | ‘ One of the people I talked to was a salesman for Allied Dunbar and said they 'd do a great job . |
| 18 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 19 | They would have a great deal in common . |
| 20 | I also like Sheffield Wednesday 's Chris Bart-Williams — he 'd do a great job . |
| 21 | He 's the type of horse to win the ‘ John Hughes ’ but if you could ever get him settled nicely and bring him through later , he 'd run a great race in the National again . ’ |
| 22 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 23 | Tinryland was terribly disappointing on his seasonal debut at Newbury , but he would have a great each-way chance if reproducing last season 's form . |
| 24 | Our shipwrecked hero would probably become king ; he would kill a great many blacks in the struggle for existence ; he would have a great many wives and children , while many of his subjects would live and die as bachelors … |
| 25 | Our shipwrecked hero would probably become king ; he would kill a great many blacks in the struggle for existence ; he would have a great many wives and children , while many of his subjects would live and die as bachelors … |
| 26 | Finally he would spend a great deal of time in preparing people for membership and in visiting members although here he could be helped by the deacons and stewards . |
| 27 | He would spend a great deal of time trying to fit in fresh pieces only to find that most of them did n't belong to his picture . |
| 28 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |
| 29 | If Banks could be persuaded to cancel debts , it would make a great difference to the countries concerned . |
| 30 | So it would make a great deal of difference in areas where there 's very little available in the way of medical services . |