Example sentences of "would to " in BNC.
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| 1 | give the same protection and employment rights that you would to other employees who have problems related to other forms of ill-health |
| 2 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 3 | Bingham ca n't take his eyes off Ali ; the still life of his friend , tethered so completely , seems as incomprehensible to him as it would to others who followed the radiated glow of Ali 's invulnerability . |
| 4 | Other mares will tolerate , boss , or defer to it as they would to the mother herself . |
| 5 | Then you will be served a dish which tastes to your palate the way the hotter dish would to a seasoned Thai tongue . |
| 6 | In the manufacturing manager 's own words : ‘ Development in the production environment meant that the operator would productionise machinery , and rather than management giving production parameters to the operators , the operators would to some extent give them to management . |
| 7 | Speaking as you would to an ordinary child , of a similar level of linguistic ability , may be the most natural response and in most cases this is likely to be a safe strategy . |
| 8 | So indeed should the woman for she is to submit to her husband as she would to the Lord himself . |
| 9 | By all means consider a tank of an unusual or irregular design , but be aware of the limitations and do not apply the same criteria as you would to the more conventional rectangular aquarium , especially where stocking levels are concerned . |
| 10 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 11 | I 'm going to adopt the editorial " we " and you may then pay more attention than you would to the burblings of a recent graduate . |
| 12 | I would to , just make the point that the royal family do , do a lot of work for this country . |
| 13 | What we 're are saying is , There are the sites , they do n't have the development constraints that I would to the extent erm that you believe erm they have , and Skelton and the two objection sites are very well located a whole range of service facilities and employment opportunities , and development on those sites would fit squarely within local plan policy . |
| 14 | Members of the public , on the other hand , would speak to a judge as they would to any other knight or peer — Sir John , or Lord Smith . |
| 15 | He spoke to him as he would to his own son , undeferentially , as one adult to another . |
| 16 | Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance . |
| 17 | You know not the innocence you abuse so freely Would to God that instead of a woman and my sister , any man breathing had dared to give himself half the airs you have done . |
| 18 | ‘ A gang war would be as damaging to Connelly as it would to us . |
| 19 | Furthermore , his body will respond to this self-made reality precisely as it would to what we now regard as ‘ the ’ universe . ’ |
| 20 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 21 | Anybody who would to s Any s Anybody saying anything to the contrary i would very much suspect their their motives . |
| 22 | " … giving him the impression , as indeed it would to anyone who did not know the district , that you had secured a well-appointed house or flat in Chelsea , at a very reasonable figure ? " |
| 23 | Husameddin 's circumstantial statement that Molla Fenari passed Ramadan 821 in the Zayniyya medrese in Cairo presumably derives from some source and , if true , would to some degree strengthen the case for Husameddin 's interpretation of the signature in so far as it would show that Molla Fenari did leave unusually early for the pilgrimage which he did not in fact make until 822 . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll spell it out for you , ’ he said as gently as one would to a young child . |
| 25 | The parent will tend to recalibrate their response , as , as , as you have said , parents will come to expect children to make a lot of fuss about nothing , and consequently wo n't pay so much attention to a child 's distress as they would to an adult 's , because we regard it as natural , children to cry or make a fuss about the treatment we contribute , but the reason for that could be that we , we have as it were , readjusted our sensitivity to distress and we , we really have a double standard . |
| 26 | Expanding output would add more to consumer benefit than it would to production costs or the opportunity cost of the resources used . |
| 27 | In fact , sweet traitor , you clung to my hand as you would to a lover . ’ |
| 28 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 29 | ‘ Would to God that were true ! |
| 30 | Treasure Trove laws do not apply to fossils any more than they would to a lump of raw gold or a precious stone imbedded in rock . |