Example sentences of "would choose to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the sort of place you would choose to be born in if you had such a choice , but Kylie Ann Minogue was born there anyway . |
| 2 | Although no country would choose to be without indigenous energy resources , a number of countries lacking access to significant gas , oil , or coal resources have avoided much of the divisive and damaging controversies which have afflicted successive UK governments in their efforts to make the best of being an island built of coal , surrounded by oil and gas and one of the pioneers of nuclear engineering . |
| 3 | No woman in her right mind would choose to be a single parent and the tiny minority who set out to be are , in my view , incredibly selfish , unimaginative and cruel . |
| 4 | The Government Actuary in 1975 estimated that only 15 per cent of those who would have exercised the contribution option would choose to be full contributors when the new scheme took effect . |
| 5 | What she meant , she told herself , was that no living creature would choose to be a pet , and nothing would opt for imprisonment , and when she went home she 'd feel trapped and , if she did n't know it was happening , she 'd rather be shot — as long as she did n't see the bullet coming . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think I would choose to be so ? ’ |
| 7 | You you 'd all it means is you 'd have longer lines of communication to an even worse bureaucracy , and I think if a bureaucracy which can produce this situation of opting out as an alternative is any example to have , I would choose to be away from it . |