Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [vb infin] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Consequently government could grow without encountering any substantial opposition from those whose taxes would pay for this growth As Heclo states :
2 I thought about the possibility but when my friends kept saying that I would be chosen I said that I thought the selectors would go for more experience .
3 Transport & General Workers ' Union deputy secretary Jack Adams warned that his members would ballot for industrial action if there were compulsory redundancies .
4 Normally the others would remain for another hour or so .
5 There would be no chance of refilling it ; and one tank for four months through some of the world 's most spectacular coral seas would call for superhuman restraint .
6 In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation .
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