Example sentences of "would [adv] [vb infin] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A last-minute alteration introduced by Khasbulatov regarding governmental structures would effectively require Yeltsin to give up the premiership within three months , instead of at the end of the year . |
| 2 | However , the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo province protested that the proposed constitution would effectively strip Kosovo of the special autonomous status conferred on it ( within the Serbian republic ) in the 1974 Yugoslavian Constitution . |
| 3 | The model of branching relationships would eventually lead Owen towards a limited kind of evolutionism ( see below ) , but he carefully suppressed this implication in the pre-Darwinian era . |
| 4 | If it was Morrissey who would eventually encourage Stephen to write more songs ( for the set that would become the No.1 album , ‘ Viva Hate ’ , at the beginning of 1988 ) , it was Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr — now one half of Electronic with New Order 's Bernard Sumner — who provided him with the opportunity to learn his craft as the guitar player 's producer par excellence . |
| 5 | Angered by Hoover 's decision to switch 400 jobs from Dijon to Cambuslang , Mr Mitterrand told a television audience that the 11 other nations would eventually force Britain to stop what he described as unfair competition by opting out of the social chapter . |
| 6 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor last night blasted television 's ‘ saturation coverage ’ of football and claimed : ‘ I would rather watch Coronation Street . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd , I would rather watch Davie Cooper play football any day ! |
| 8 | I would rather abandon Eton , Winchester , Harrow and all the rest of them than sacrifice the advantage of the grammar school . ’ |
| 9 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 10 | ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’ |
| 11 | But I really would rather have Chatsworth . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I would rather see Philip play the piano than workingmen 's clubs but he has set his heart on being a magician and we are supporting him , ’ said his mother Stella . |
| 13 | He made the Poles on his territory pay double the level of taxes paid by Germans , encouraged the Poles to sell up and move out and refused to rent out Royal Estates to Poles , declaring that he would rather see Danzig merchants working Pomeranian soil . |
| 14 | I would rather lose Bobby 's backing than compromise my artistic integrity over this production . ’ |
| 15 | Though we have several times discussed the subject of retirement , in connection with other drivers , on his own withdrawal from the sport I would rather let Jackie have the word . |
| 16 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Scargill 's election to Parliament would acutely embarrass Mr Kinnock , but would pave the way for the NUM 's merger with the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 18 | Such a description would presumably fit London as well , especially the areas of Caribbean settlement . |
| 19 | Derick Wilson , the Labour councillor who lobbied fellow members to reject the licencing restrictions , claims that they would badly damage Edinburgh 's tourism image . |
| 20 | Rinelde Steeghs said that that move ’ would so infuriate Serbia and the Yugoslav army as to spell an end to the EC peace conference chaired by Lord Carrington . ’ |
| 21 | It would only make Luke think that she was distrusting him again . |
| 22 | She knew that it was no use offering to make it : it would only make Bella angry . |
| 23 | The sessions largely consisted of assurances from DEC of its continued commitment to the OSF/1 operating system on the MIPS line , in the face of surprisingly strong customer reaction to the news of DEC 's recent pronouncements that it would only offer OSF/1 for Alpha ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 24 | Equally , said Alison Fellows , we would only want Bordeaux wine from Bordeaux . |
| 25 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 26 | Dr Greene would only permit Faye to be at home if she kept to a stricter schedule of bed-rest . |
| 27 | This revealed that the EC would only challenge BAe to honour Rover 's plans if there were significant variations , and even then would limit the amount to be reimbursed by the company . |
| 28 | He hung onto me and started crying , so they said they would only take Antonio to make a statement . |
| 29 | For instance , shipping conferences or consortia are not intrinsically anticompetitive , but would only get EC clearance if member firms still had to compete with independent lines on any given route and if the cost savings and other spin-offs from collaboration were passed on to clients and consumers . |
| 30 | But for the sake of the pigs we would obviously prefer Sir Richard 's shorter phasing-out period . ’ |