Example sentences of "their [noun pl] would [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This competition made conflicts more likely and meant that in any conflict rival groups of Indians would be involved ; those who traded with the French would support them , and their enemies would support the British , so that Indian skirmishing inland played a larger part in the fighting of the 1740s than in previous wars . |
| 2 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 3 | In time their names would identify the biggest British trading concern in the Far East . |
| 4 | Their holders would adopt the same position of relative irrelevance that they hold in the republican democracies of Europe . |
| 5 | The members of the second party lined the edge of the highway facing the woods , forming a trap into which their colleagues would drive the fleeing sect heavies . |