Example sentences of "would [verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would make for the Federal Republic . ’ |
| 2 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |
| 3 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 4 | As was seen in Part I , while some claimants would qualify for the ordinary rate of benefit , others would be eligible for the long-term rate , which for a married couple was valued at 25 per cent higher than the ordinary rate . |
| 5 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 6 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
| 7 | He would wait for the right moment . |
| 8 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 9 | So you might think few firms would opt for the formal route . |
| 10 | They were valued on the basis of the quoted share price , but the shareholders argued that , since all the shares were being acquired , stock exchange prices were not a true criterion and that either the whole undertaking should be valued and the price thus determined apportioned among the shareholders , or the value should be the price which one buyer would give for the whole block , which price should then be similarly apportioned . |
| 11 | Rozanov , it was decided , would head for the Soviet Embassy . |
| 12 | Of course in doing this we were inadvertently upwind of the rabbits then out to feed , and numbers would head for the main wood . |
| 13 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 14 | A professional decorator told me years ago that when carrying out domestic painting , he always asked the lady of the house the shade she would like for the finished coat . |
| 15 | So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development . |
| 16 | The salmon sheets Chair , we have shown our estimates of what ideally we would like for the continuing introduction of the Children Act and its requirements , the Criminal Justice Act , and the Warner Reports , but we do recognize , and I think this Committee recognizes , the difficult financial position the County Council finds itself in , and therefore the intention is to meet those unavoidable requirements from within the base budget , and there are no bids in these papers for funding towards those . |
| 17 | Lenin believed that bureaucracy would become redundant after a proletarian revolution which would provide for the instant revocability of every civil servant , the reduction of official salaries and the simplification of control and accounting functions in society . |
| 18 | Gorbachev 's speech on his election as party leader laid proper emphasis on domestic priorities , but also called for better relations with the ‘ great socialist community ’ , particularly China , and for the continuation of ‘ peaceful , mutually advantageous cooperation ’ with the capitalist world , leading if possible to an agreement that would provide for the complete elimination of nuclear arms and with them the threat of nuclear war . |
| 19 | It would have even more credibility if the Labour party would claim and set out the funding that it would provide for the national health service , which it has expressly failed to do . |
| 20 | It is however I think relevant to the debate on policies I five and I twelve , to the extent that the County Council adjustments to the wording of policy I five which would provide for the distributional strategy and its emphasis on directing development to locations in and adjacent to main urban areas , main towns and small towns , to be modified so as to pe permit major employment allocations to be made elsewhere and indeed on a scale which effectively improved distributional strategy . |
| 21 | His friend , Mr Derek Harrod , said : ‘ I would vote for the official candidate . |
| 22 | They would press for the international allocation of quotas , as well as mail and air freight , and expected some Commonwealth and European support . |
| 23 | Rod , who hoped Renee would doze for the whole flight , was on his way to record an album . |
| 24 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 25 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 26 | It would be somewhat difficult to pick the best of the Villa San Paolo 's many attractions , but , if we were pushed to it , we would go for the stupendous view from the swimming pool . |
| 27 | An attacking partner would be ideal , and I would go for the left-handed Woolley , one of the most rapid-scoring or batsmen , particularly against fast bowling . |
| 28 | Now , if the depression has been preceded by a particularly deep-going crisis , equilibrium may be established at such a low level of activity that the volume of fixed capital currently being produced may well be considerably smaller than that which would allow for the time-proportional replacement of fixed capital at the previous average rate . |
| 29 | Alternatively , should LA implement a matching strategy that would allow for the missing schwa ? |
| 30 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |