Example sentences of "we would " in BNC.

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1 To do this , we would like to recruit people who are willing to be an ACET-link in their church .
2 Without their commitment we would not be able to provide such an extensive service .
3 It is the churches that provide our volunteers ; without their support we would not be able to provide a service at all .
4 And when he had left off playing I would go and sit by him , and a little later we would all lead the good old man to his cottage .
5 The image — summoned by a narrator whose exhausted dreams are filled with girls — is like nothing we would ever meet in the literal Levi .
6 Yet it is not the reality of a naturalistic drama , such as we would find in , say , Ibsen or Chekhov .
7 You do see this much more in foreign companies and I think if we in Britain could match the physical and the vocal more we would really be on top with our training resources .
8 Inevitably we would expect that those who freely accept the teaching of our Church will vote according to their consciences .
9 And without language we would not be able to conceive it either .
10 As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve .
11 As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve .
12 Even then , we would trail behind other European Community members , such as Germany , France and Italy , each with 11 public holidays a year , Spain and Portugal with 13 each , and Denmark with 10 .
13 We would now like to extend its scope and analysis and we invite any general manager , not already participating , to do so .
14 We would send a copy of our most recent edition with a short , explanatory letter .
15 ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says .
16 We would hope that in consultation it would be tightened up , but the EC might prefer it in its general form , ’ she said .
17 ‘ But we would , Mr Tyler .
18 In spite of her own feminism and socialism her films are not propagandist or didactic , as she was very well aware that : ‘ We were not engaged to indulge our own politics or socialism , however much we would have found satisfaction in doing so ’ .
19 Let's talk about the Channel that we want and the television we would like to see .
20 We would all , I think , like to help .
21 I 'd refrained from advertising any more for fear that we would be overwhelmed .
22 However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead .
23 Later , when I was a city detective in the early 1960s , we again used clothing to mark off our separation and dirty , ragged tramps shuffling off to shelter in rubble-filled dens under the Tyne Bridge would become a referent to our despised neighbours : ‘ look [ we would point ] there 's a Gateshead detective hurrying off on the scent …
24 However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate .
25 We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this .
26 There we would be , pistols at dawn and I 'd laugh or he 'd laugh and it would all be over .
27 My grandfather was born at Farrochil , on Bolfracks Hill — we would still be there — but was my father to slave at carting stones from the Menzies 's quarry for old Wade to build his damned bridge ?
28 I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’
29 Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning .
30 Under the new régime we would be the first province to disenfranchise them .
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