Example sentences of "would [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is particularly true of many 2∗ hotels which under less stringent classifications , would easily rate 3∗ . |
| 32 | Would not others from needy backgrounds expect the same ? |
| 33 | We welcome the security that the present orders offer to 1994-95 , but would not Harland and Wolff 's future , as well as that of other British shipyards , be better secured if we were to adopt the policy of new build for Britain 's merchant fleet and thus ensure that shipyards throughout the United Kingdom employ our people and that our seamen have jobs to go to ? |
| 34 | If they were , would not Blanche have said so ? |
| 35 | For example , would not fidelity be a ‘ moral consideration ’ ? |
| 36 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 37 | ‘ Disguised as Anne Duchess of York , would not Joan de Warenne have free passage 'twixt Tower and outside world — and thus be a carrier of messages and information ? ’ |
| 38 | But again , there is the other side to Beccaria 's version of the social contract mentioned in Chapter 1 — that we would not will for others what we would not will for ourselves — and Hart 's view that Beccaria 's position was sensitive to individual rights . |
| 39 | But again , there is the other side to Beccaria 's version of the social contract mentioned in Chapter 1 — that we would not will for others what we would not will for ourselves — and Hart 's view that Beccaria 's position was sensitive to individual rights . |
| 40 | These moves would not disgrace a HVS climb were it not for the fact that two sets of in situ threads protect them perfectly : a good testing ground to see if you are up to greater things . |
| 41 | The kusimanse , a dwarf mongoose from West Africa , confronted with a chicken 's egg , will put its fore-legs over it and with a vigour that would not disgrace an American footballer , hurl it backwards through its splayed hind legs . |
| 42 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 43 | She would not disgrace it more than she had already . |
| 44 | I would not stage it at all ! |
| 45 | Would not Opposition Members like to have thought of that idea and put it through in legislation ? |
| 46 | There was n't any subject on which Jackie would not discourse : at length . |
| 47 | We are not sure that Latimer 's and Ridley 's sermons would not jar on modern refinement quite as much … |
| 48 | Rebels ‘ would not hand over general ’ |
| 49 | White House officials insist this is a misunderstanding ; US interest in the coup evaporated rapidly when the rebels made it clear that they would not hand over Noriega . |
| 50 | I would not hand this in to my superior lest I would become a victim of the purges myself . |
| 51 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
| 52 | I am very fond of my ex-editor , but on the whole I would sooner Bill got his pleasure from watching Fred Couples play golf than from reading open-razor letters to the Guardian . |
| 53 | decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room . |
| 54 | He would generally lunch in one of the clubs to which he belonged ( by the end of his life , he was a member of the Athenaeum , the Garrick , and the Oxford and Cambridge ) although there were occasions when he would take guests to his favourite restaurant , L'Etoile , in Charlotte Street . |
| 55 | Would more Government money in the home stop young girls going out to engage in prostitution ? |
| 56 | So would more police , speedier courts , and better prisons and drug-treatment programmes . |
| 57 | Failure to keep their friends in office would rapidly doom the Cunningham interest in these burghs to extinction , as councillors and trades voters started to reconsider their former loyalties and to listen to the argument of the Haldane partisans that the colonel had the ear of government . |
| 58 | Is early detection possible and would early treatment help ? |
| 59 | Of course , if everyone knew their partners inside out , there 's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth . |
| 60 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |