Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system would mostly operate a service of at least half-hourly frequency , but the Twotowns North line would incorporate the existing BR express service between Shrewsbury and Wellington with Metro stopping trains at the alternate half-hour . |
| 2 | The European companies were hoping to meet the deadline set by the International Radio Consultative Committee for the presentation of technical proposals for a new system which , once chosen , would effectively set a world standard , Japan and the USA having already submitted their applications to the Committee . |
| 3 | No ordinary man , he ; with a good education behind him , coupled with a strong religious fervour , he would eventually achieve a degree of fame by compiling a treatise on the botany of North America , called Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus . |
| 4 | This , plus a variety of photographs of him featuring a range of his involvements and achievements would eventually find a place in his portrait portfolio . |
| 5 | And although it was always the hope that the county would continue to fund the project , and that every secondary school would eventually receive a grant of one sort or another , uncertainty meant that no guarantee could be given to disappointed schools as to their inclusion in a subsequent wave . |
| 6 | If a motorist did enter , he would eventually get a bill . |
| 7 | The good general does not admit the possibility of defeat , and a doctor would rarely advise a patient that his tumour is probably cancerous until the possibility that it is benign has been ruled out . |
| 8 | This is highly price sensitive information from which a conglomerate could make a profit or avoid a loss , but it would rarely constitute a breach of the the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 . |
| 9 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 10 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 11 | Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends . |
| 12 | ‘ She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness . ’ |
| 13 | I would rather do a cross-word puzzle than try a revenue appeal . ’ |
| 14 | It would rather mount a protest over student grants ( probably in the UK the most generous in the world per student ) than attempt to frame a Charter of the academic rights which should fall to every student . |
| 15 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 16 | Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro . |
| 17 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
| 18 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 19 | There was no reference to the key educational issue in the Queen 's speech , and Michael Stewart ( the new Secretary of State ) was obviously playing for time : ‘ I would rather wait a bit for a good comprehensive system than try to push a sham version in its place . ’ |
| 20 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 21 | Both would thereby indicate a preference for the Conservative Party but their attitudes would not be the same . |
| 22 | 3.6 To the extent that the Tenant has exclusive possession of the Premises at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant shall hold the same as Tenant at will of the Landlord The tenant may wish to delete this clause despite a footnote to the precedent to the effect that any purported determination of the tenancy at will by the landlord ( other than where provided for in clause 5 ) would presumably contribute a breach of contract , ie for withdrawing the authority granted by clause 3.5 . |
| 23 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 24 | Clever compositional tricks would only trap a fraction of the space and diminish the distance . |
| 25 | Interviewed in the Beirut newspaper An Nahar on Sept. 1 , Aoun called Lebanon 's leaders " marionettes who should be tried for high treason " ; the French magazine Paris Match on Sept. 7 quoted him as saying that the Syrians would only last a year and that he was the future saviour of Lebanon . |
| 26 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 27 | Another in Sutton , Surrey , said : ‘ I would only want a bunch of wild flowers and the simplest departure possible . |
| 28 | Removal of 2000 m during the Permian would only require a rate of 53 m per million years . |
| 29 | Prior to this service , pump manufacturers would only provide a test pump for a well if the customer agreed to purchase the unit or pay for repairs at the end of the test period . |
| 30 | If the firm were simply to invest £50,000 on the capital market it would only produce a zero NPV . |