Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] them would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I was afraid one of them would stay , ’ he said . |
2 | If underground outfits had to go legal many of them would go bust , their profitability often lying in their clandestine nature . |
3 | I am sure one of them would afford you the protection that you seek . |
4 | Wycliffe reviewed possible candidates : among them the women , Cathy Carne , Marcella Tate , and Anna Brooks-any one of them would have been physically capable of committing the crime and sprinting away afterwards . |
5 | At least , yeah , I should think nine tenths of them would go , very there 's yesterday 's winner darling . |
6 | Any one of them would love to take away the £1,000 winner 's cheque , won last year by Bristol Amalgamation , but first they 'll have to beat the other hopefuls on what could be a bumper match . |
7 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
8 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
9 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
10 | Any one of them would have promoted him instantly into mainstream Hollywood and even some of his friends thought he was mad . |
11 | The Government points out that , for example , although this group would have lost entitlement to supplementary assistance , 1.2 million of them would have gained entitlement to standard housing benefit . |