Example sentences of "they would [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly over ninety per cent of people who took part in a survey said that they would want to be told ; but it is important to stress that the respondents were all healthy people , and in illness attitudes may change . |
| 2 | egalitarianism and that how that increased production was seen as the you know , priority , and so perhaps they would want to just I mean it might seem appear that they were changing their policy to a more moderate land reform but this was not an end in itself it was a means to an end in order to increase production which would benefit the population as a whole , so it 's , they still had the same goal |
| 3 | Erm just difference they would make to the price . |
| 4 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |
| 5 | Anyway , I kept them in the aviary for about four weeks just to make sure they would adapt to one another . |
| 6 | And when they would offer to no no they would n't they would have their own way of drying it in in their bags they would have another clean or or you would say clothes to put on but we never ever heard of them doing a washing . |
| 7 | One-third of five- and six-year-olds in one study said they would prefer to be without their sibling altogether — hardly a vote of confidence in sibship . |
| 8 | They also ask : are native enterprises being presented with a powerful ‘ demonstration effect ’ where , given the opportunity , they would prefer to be rid of an old industrial relations system in preference for the one used by their newly-arrived neighbours ? |
| 9 | Information was sought also about the relationship of topic work to the rest of the curriculum , about the selection of topics or themes , about teachers ' criteria for judging whether topics were successful , and about the advice they would give to student teachers about to tackle project work . |
| 10 | Where they might differ , as I have already indicated , is on the meaning they would give to the concept of Religion . |
| 11 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 12 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |
| 13 | ‘ If they do that to a dumb animal you wonder what they would do to us if we 'd disturbed them . ’ |
| 14 | of the label , okay so that we can actually and put it actually in the bag , so that when these things go off as they would do to their to the the various specialists who actually know more about pottery know more about bones and can do a more detailed analysis , still know where they 're from . |
| 15 | Other women joined in saying , some in detail , what they would do to the German soldiers , and one woman , generally considered to be a part-time prostitute , boasted that she could see off any German . |
| 16 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 17 | In the survey , imaginary scenes were described to viewers , to find how they would react to seeing them . |
| 18 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 19 | When they were about 2 weeks old and measured about ⅓″ ( total length ) I decided to conduct an experiment to see how they would react to a shell ; I had an empty Apple Snail shell scrounged from my long-suffering dealer for just such an experiment . |
| 20 | At the very least , both communities should be thinking seriously about the possibility — and how they would react to it . |
| 21 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 22 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 23 | And then — because the deepest questions curiously acquire the least importance in such interviews — did they ever really think they would return to ‘ Palestine ’ ? |
| 24 | The party would continue into the wee small hours of oblivion , then pick up again on Saturday mornings when , after a breakfast of Anadin and hair-of-the-dog , they would return to the pub to begin again . |
| 25 | Some felt constrained by lack of alternative child care — as many as two-fifths said they would return to work sooner if they could get child care . |
| 26 | And although he had promised they would return to the seaside house , somehow they never had . |
| 27 | Once they had their lunch they would return to the seats and eat , when finished they were permitted to go outside to play . |
| 28 | ‘ Grandstand ’ had moved back to the cricket but Harry Carpenter had promised viewers that they would return to Sandwich for the finale of ‘ this extraordinary golfing drama ’ . |
| 29 | Indeed , Catesby seemed quite excited and both he and his Queen openly announced they would return to Scotland as soon as possible . |
| 30 | By the end of the week Luxembourg would be nicely set , and next week they would return to the Baron and Countess Maritza , finishing up that week with Luxembourg again . |