Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I would want is for you to make the journey into the burning , and then come back and report . |
| 2 | The last thing the family would want is for there to be any public disturbance . ’ |
| 3 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 4 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 5 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 6 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
| 7 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 8 | Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income . |
| 9 | Similarly for example 3 , syntax would choose are over arc , and for example 2 , semantics would choose dog rather than clog . |
| 10 | We would envisage being in a position to despatch the sales documentation by the end of four to six weeks . |
| 11 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 12 | But erm what we would like is for any of you who are actually here at that time to attend that mass and to be involved in some way , to do some sort of erm service . |
| 13 | What I would like is for all the Councillors to look at this , to advise me which other seats they think are indeed the responsibility of and then I 'll go back and go to battle but er I 'd like everybody 's views on which ones they believe they are so that I can do it firmly . |
| 14 | ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster . |
| 15 | His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 16 | ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’ |
| 17 | Well , with the two lines going yeah would have been about right then but see , John I do n't suppose he realised Ann was gon na fetch all the people out of here there and everywhere and start that up . |
| 18 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 19 | It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means . |
| 20 | The trend is towards empowerment and allowing junior employees to take personal initiatives that normally would have been beyond the scope of their jobs . |
| 21 | Characteristically within traditional professions such as Law and Medicine , it would have been beyond the bounds of decency to put any of one 's peers or the profession itself in a morally ambiguous or cynical light . |
| 22 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 23 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
| 24 | If the bonus had risen in line with prices since its introduction in 1972 , it would have been worth £48.85 last Christmas . |
| 25 | With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now . |
| 26 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 27 | When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses , Shultz , Weinberger and Meese , although their tales would have been worth hearing ; the committees , after all , had contracted to finish by early August , whether or not the full story had been told . |
| 28 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 29 | It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |