Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes I think I 'd just love to be alone with a nice book to read and a carol service on the wireless !
2 I 'd just like to be taller really .
3 I 'd just like to be able to repay her generosity . ’
4 Well , he 'd just have to be disappointed
5 Langhorne was an impossible , fiercely dangerous dirt track , practically round , full of ruts ; hot and unprotected , but Mario — as he often liked to point out — had n't been born with a silver spoon in his mouth ; he could n't afford the fare to Europe ; meanwhile , while dreaming of his grand prix heroes , he 'd just have to be better than anybody else at what was available .
6 ‘ I 'd still like to be able to call on you . ’
7 Even when I stop idolising him , I 'd still like to be able to tell him what pleasure his lovely voice has given me all these Saturday evenings . ’
8 I 'd really like to be able to speak like you , you know .
9 It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it .
10 ‘ I want to stay out here , that 's all , and I would much prefer to be alone . ’
11 I think Mr what I would like to see , I do n't want to go too far into the history , but I would just like to be sure that er bearing in mind this complex history given on behalf of those you are representing , that the views you are putting forward are the er current views of the Parish Council as expressed in their formal minutes .
12 Instead I would just like to be able to click a single button which means assigning a macro to an appropriate icon .
13 There would thus appear to be some scope for policy activism , but , on further inspection , it turns out to be very limited indeed .
14 References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment .
15 There would thus have to be drastic cuts in public expenditure , particularly in the soaring cost of unemployment benefits .
16 Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ?
17 She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail .
18 Whether it would still continue to be free standing and well removed in terms of a second er second increment .
19 I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show .
20 In other words , the old view that women 's crime is physically explainable would still appear to be influential , despite the fact that there is no real evidence for such explanations .
21 This search for increased value would probably need to be subject to constraints reflecting ‘ soft rationing ’ and the need for balanced growth , which are already implicit within strategic portfolio analysis .
22 It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear .
23 There would clearly seem to be some significance in the fact that only on John 's decease does Jesus embark in earnest on his ministry .
24 The magazine 's line on such matters would also appear to be remote from , and distinctly harder than , that taken in its dying days by the Reagan Administration .
25 Other factors would also appear to be important in explaining the tendency towards organisation along industrial lines .
26 There would also need to be higher rates of tax built on top of this sum .
27 We hope to compile a list of local Bed & Breakfast accommodation , but would also like to be able to offer hospitality in local members ' homes .
28 Presumably , Mr Damant would also like to be able to separate out any element of earnings related to discontinued operations , since obviously such earnings can not be maintained .
29 The briefcase would have to be able to handle any live gig but would also have to be suitable for rehearsals and recording sessions .
30 Hamlet is up against not just a man , but a king , he will have to strike when the king is unarmed , And he would also have to be able to explain his actions , and yet even his mother does not believe him , but only see him as mad
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