Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know quite a few people who would do that . |
| 2 | Candidate Alan Milburn said the bus campaign would reach many of the people who would do best under his party . |
| 3 | How do we turn the people who would do semi-skilled jobs on machines into people who can programme numerically-controlled machines to perform that job more effectively and with much greater levels of productivity . |
| 4 | Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them : ‘ Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4 , 5 , 6 per cent or any other figure you like , the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2 ; per cent . ’ |
| 5 | I wanted to cry there and then but I was in the ward surrounded by people who would want to dam up my tears , so I stood up , put my jacket on and walked out . |
| 6 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |
| 7 | He says he ca n't understand the mentality of people who would want to prey on him ; and his message to the thieves is clear . |
| 8 | The Royal Exchange Trust Co Ltd was made a defendant as the executor and trustee of the will ; the company also represented the interests of the people who would benefit in default of an appointment of the income . |
| 9 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 10 | A practice developed of allowing the individual to make representations and call witnesses before a panel of three people who would advise the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | The effect of being rich is obtained by subtracting the proportion of poor people who would break the law from the proportion of rich people who would . |
| 12 | After all , it was their people who would suffer most from the subsequent food shortages . |
| 13 | The UNHCR 's envoy , Jose-Maria Mendiluce , fiercely attacked the council 's decision yesterday , saying it was an insult because the people who would suffer had not been consulted . |
| 14 | erm yes , erm it 's very sad that there are people , and something should be done about it , but if you were to have a society , a perfect society , where there was no need for people to sleep out rough , or to sleep rough , you would still find some people who would sleep rough . |
| 15 | Although she was penniless , she managed to get back to England : Margery never had much difficulty in finding people who would give her money to go a long , long way away . |
| 16 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 17 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 18 | Erm , but an awful lot of people who would go up and make a fuss may not get this , the same level of services erm , somebody who went up there and was nice . |
| 19 | I knew of young people who would rush into marriages , even parenthood , in order to further their passport and visa applications , such was their desperation to get out . |
| 20 | THERE are many people who would love to buy the work of young British artists : there are plenty of young artists in Britain who would love to sell it . |
| 21 | We children gave no presents to one another or to our parents : we were content to send out a few picture cards paid for by our parents , to people who would send us cards . |
| 22 | The evening promenade , ridiculed as the ‘ monkey walk ’ , when young people gathered together in their finery hoping to ‘ click ’ with a member of the opposite sex was another sure sign of the unchaperoned freedoms of the new street people who would inherit the new century . |
| 23 | As an organization , Stop Hinkley Expansion had initially expected to present only a handful of witnesses at the inquiry — people who would stand up on our behalf and defend their arguments against the assault of Lord Silsoe and his colleagues . |
| 24 | I knew people who would borrow a video camera , especially if they were throwing a particular kind of party . |
| 25 | In his report into what is known as ‘ the Profumo Affair ’ in 1963 , Lord Denning was of the view that the term' ‘ subversive ’ should relate to ‘ people who would contemplate the overthrow of government by unlawful means ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ He says that of all people who would know how to use best this money , it 's you . ’ |
| 27 | Well , we do our best or try to pass people on to other people who would know the answer . |
| 28 | Land suggested that Alvey 's group did not consult enough of the people who would use advanced computers ; that it had paid too little attention to international collaboration ; and that the committee focused on too narrow an area of activity . |
| 29 | The people who would fly a Virgin airline were the same young , mobile , relatively affluent people who had been buying records by Virgin artists in Virgin record stores for years . |
| 30 | There may be some people who would like to see you break your neck , but I am not one of them . ’ |