Example sentences of "would [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a valuation would be controversial ; some would want the value of ‘ leisure ’ included while others would regard being deprived of work , in a society where people are expected to work , as a cost to the individual . |
| 2 | ‘ I would be delighted if you would consider being interviewed for the film . |
| 3 | Some older people dread the idea of moving out of their own homes , while others would enjoy being near or actually living with their relatives . |
| 4 | He would enjoy being comfortably housed , having a music room with a Steinway grand , and an orchestra , however inexperienced , on tap to play his compositions , the largest part of which he had never heard . |
| 5 | I sometimes thought that he would enjoy being mistaken for the one rather than the other , because he disliked the idea of poetry as a ‘ profession ’ : an attitude which some lesser figures found puzzling . |
| 6 | Nothing was confirmed until recently , and even these gigs we 've just done in South America were only a testing ground to see how Brian would feel being the lead singer and mainman in general . |
| 7 | Neither Whitehall , nor government nor this county council , nor the children we 're talking about would welcome being used as a political football by Mr . |
| 8 | We would envisage being in a position to despatch the sales documentation by the end of four to six weeks . |
| 9 | But biologists can be much more specific than that about what would constitute being " good for something " . |
| 10 | Because he liked women to be gentle and soft and obedient he thought that women would like being that way since it would make him like them . |
| 11 | Hari felt the impulse to ruffle William 's hair but she knew he would resent being treated like the child he was , boys grew up quickly in the harsh realities of World 's End . |
| 12 | She wished there were the faintest chance that he would drop being breezy . |
| 13 | And because the French Basque country , unlike the Spanish , is thoroughly rural , it is very much a tourist region ; it would stop being so were terrorism to cross the frontier . |
| 14 | ’ I wish people would stop being so interested in my working relationship — or rather , my lack of one — with her . ’ |
| 15 | I would stop being a writer . |
| 16 | He recommended one walk to those who would avoid being tired — Borrowdale , Buttermere , Newlands , Rosthwaite , Keswick , a mere 23 miles . |
| 17 | No one could have staged the now infamous Sheffield rally , a turning point in the campaign , unless they were imbued with a belief that electors would appreciate being treated as mere objects to be manipulated . |
| 18 | No Substitute Prosecutor would appreciate being called at this hour . |
| 19 | ‘ Well done , Michael , but in future I would appreciate being informed of your decisions . |
| 20 | What idealists see as the ‘ binding in ’ of a powerful Germany , Mrs Thatcher would call being lashed to it . |
| 21 | The star a word you know Courtenay would hate being called to his face makes no bones about the fact that he wants The Miser to be successful because that will put money back into his favourite theatre , Manchester 's Royal Exchange , where the production originated . |
| 22 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 23 | The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind . |
| 24 | Just this once , she would risk being considered a bad loser . |
| 25 | Fun as it might be to imagine what a ‘ top twenty ’ list might include , there would be little real purpose in discussing the practicalities , or otherwise , of going on a cruise , owning a race horse , buying a caravan , flying Concorde or whatever , since not only — even among married couples — would there be wide variations in choice but more particularly , since normal budget wisdom does not apply , any advice would risk being grossly misleading . |
| 26 | It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram . |
| 27 | They were trapped in each other 's company , each one wanting to break away , to do anything rather than stay there together , but none of them would risk being thought unfeeling , or odd . |
| 28 | The temptation was that the churches ' social work , begun as a way to win the unchurched as well as to help them physically , would cease being the means and instead become the end . |
| 29 | Ari had anticipated that her training , until the consummation with Nathan , would involve being hooked up to machines like the ones Leila had used at Lazar Farm . |
| 30 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |