Example sentences of "would [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather musicians took the latter course — and so , I bet , would you . |
| 2 | ‘ I would rather Germany played the proper Scottish team but I want to keep a sense of proportion . |
| 3 | ‘ I am sure that Michelle would rather John had n't been married to Alison , but that does n't mean to say she is going to go out and murder her , let alone involve her much-loved sister in the crime ’ . |
| 4 | In an effort to meet its 1991 inflation target , the government in October 1990 concluded with the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) and the Employers ' Association a pact for the following year : average wage increases would be below 13.4 per cent ; the working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours ; the minimum monthly wage for industrial and farm workers would rise by 15 per cent , as would most pension and social security payments ; labour disputes were to be resolved through negotiation rather than industrial action . |
| 5 | Such a threat may constitute a bluff in that the prime minister would have more to lose if an election was called than would most MPs ( the PM could lose office : most seats are safe seats and so most MPs could expect to be reelected ) , but nonetheless it has proved a potent influence in determining parliamentary behaviour . |
| 6 | Would little Mikey Hatch become , like his father , a butcher ? |
| 7 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 8 | To cover herself now would be like doing a striptease in reverse , and would only emphasis her uncomfortable consciousness of her bare flesh . |
| 9 | For a brief moment it seemed that the rain still hesitated , that it would only patter dispiritedly on the dust-filled gutters where its drops rolled like quick-silver . |
| 10 | That would only distress her . |
| 11 | Would the lack of charitable registration impair non-taxable status totally , or would only investment income be taxable as in the case of non-profit making social clubs ? |
| 12 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 13 | All the other main opposition parties except the conservative Popular Christian Party ( PPC ) boycotted the elections , arguing that the CCD would be an insubstantial body which would merely rubber-stamp presidential decisions . |
| 14 | Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way . |
| 15 | ‘ At table he would just glower at his food and refuse to talk . |
| 16 | This is particularly true of many 2∗ hotels which under less stringent classifications , would easily rate 3∗ . |
| 17 | Would not others from needy backgrounds expect the same ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | If they were , would not Blanche have said so ? |
| 20 | For example , would not fidelity be a ‘ moral consideration ’ ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She would not disgrace it more than she had already . |
| 29 | I would not stage it at all ! |
| 30 | Would not Opposition Members like to have thought of that idea and put it through in legislation ? |