Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your parents hate it and would gladly lynch this band rather than let them dabble with your adolescent hormones that ca n't help wanting to shag them senseless in a vat of cold custard . |
| 2 | It was impossible to evaluate my effectiveness as a role model , facilitator and practical teacher in terms of the time involved , but I was reassured by the fact I had spent 10 per cent of my time formally teaching students — although some nurses would rather spend this time at the bedside . |
| 3 | There is much debate still as to which treatment would most benefit this group . |
| 4 | As singles usually make a loss for record companies , being ‘ tasters ’ for the album , any large marketing campaign would only increase this deficit . |
| 5 | Also , I 'd like to come over all clichéd now and say that it seems that you do get what you pay for , and while the Hohner is a very capable bass I would personally bypass this mid-price level and put the money to something else . |
| 6 | The teaching and research staff , and the academic centre the course would make possible , would greatly enrich this process within Britain ; it could indeed be seen as an important example of resource-sharing from south to north . |
| 7 | I would better understand this type of ‘ high-tech ’ approach if you demolished the whole of Trafalgar Square and started again with a single architect responsible for the entire layout . |
| 8 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 9 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
| 10 | To those who would thoughtlessly dismiss this notion as ‘ silly ’ , Regan cautions that ‘ silly sounding ideas sometimes turn out to be true . |
| 11 | ‘ No war would ever reach this part of the world , ’ said Robins , ‘ but I remember the last in Europe . |
| 12 | On any future occasion when the subject was raised the government of the day would always quote this report as the fountain of truth . |
| 13 | Claudia smiled wryly , acknowledging that Roman would always receive this kind of reaction from every woman he met . |
| 14 | And while the proportion of those people who would recommend a young couple with a steady job to buy as soon as possible has fallen from 78 per cent in 1989 , the latest survey shows 70 per cent would still offer this advice . |
| 15 | ‘ I would go for parts and they would still have this idea that Chrissie was very much in the series . |
| 16 | The nomadic tribesmen of the contemporary Middle East would still understand this story well enough . |
| 17 | Ideally , I 'd have my preferred gauge of 45–105s fitted , which would further attenuate this brightness . |
| 18 | A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie . |
| 19 | In practice the following examples would probably show this intent : |
| 20 | They both date from the late 1970s , the beginning of what many climbers consider to be Pembroke 's ‘ golden age ’ , although I think just as many would probably say this age is still with us . |
| 21 | If most of your ticks are in this box , then you would probably support this view , whatever your religious convictions . |
| 22 | Division B's managers would probably reject this offer as they would see each unit costing that division £90 ( £50 + £40 ) but yielding only £80 ; Division B would make a loss of £10 a unit by selling at £80 . |
| 23 | Keynes accepted that an increase in employment would need to be underpinned by a reduction in the real wage rate but rejected the view that the forces of competition would automatically achieve this end . |
| 24 | Practical advice and assistance would also aid this process . |
| 25 | I would heartily recommend this piece of shareware to any Windows 3.1 user . |
| 26 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 27 | I would particularly recommend this book to the non-professional reader , including industrial managers , journalists , teachers and politicians . |
| 28 | I would strongly commend this idea to the cement industry . |
| 29 | I would strongly endorse this sentiment and record my own appreciation for their commitment and support . |
| 30 | Mr Cook said he would immediately cancel this month 's rise in prescription charges and introduce a parliamentary order exempting over-40s from eye test charges . |