Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all words would suffice for this , but the number of standard forms used gradually increased . |
| 2 | When the families coalesced , how their hands and eyes would plead for one another , under our indulgent gaze . |
| 3 | These beautifully crafted panniers would sell for high prices in the West , but hours of labour and generations of skill are treated casually here . |
| 4 | Prejudice , such as that exploited by Tupper in Cardiff in 1911 , became mixed with self concern — the belief that Asiatic crews would work for lower wages and in worse conditions than British , and so undercut the union 's effort to improve both in the British seaman 's interests . |
| 5 | When the pressmen started on sheet C , the compositor washed and distributed type from the two B formes just finished with ( keeping the running titles safely , though ) ; he prepared inner and outer D , which the pressmen would call for next , fitted the B running titles neatly in place , and again got on with something else . |
| 6 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 7 | Each day individuals would ask for private sacrifices to be offered to God in thanksgiving or forgiveness for sins . |
| 8 | do you think your recommended a hundred and two hectares would cater for all those things ? |
| 9 | The £95m improvement in non-performing loans would pay for these allowances for the next 100 years . |
| 10 | Consequently government could grow without encountering any substantial opposition from those whose taxes would pay for this growth As Heclo states : |
| 11 | In November 1990 , cuts of almost 50 per cent to the Polish army were announced , after which conscripts would serve for 12 months ( cut from 18 months ) , with some serving in the police force . |
| 12 | Declaring he would not stand , he said if no candidate were found , traditional Liberals would vote for Labour in protest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Transport & General Workers ' Union deputy secretary Jack Adams warned that his members would ballot for industrial action if there were compulsory redundancies . |
| 15 | Surely it is a ludicrous notion to suppose that two scientists on their own in a remote basement lab could claim to solve the world 's energy problems so that the scientific community would take up this claim , that world leaders would ask for regular briefings and that there could be nothing in it at the end . |
| 16 | Trainees would attend for forty weeks and in the second half of their training they would pass on skills acquired ( e.g. in computing or photography ) to the new intake of trainees . |
| 17 | Presumably they all have accommodation costs , for example , and if these amount to a little over £26 a week ( including council tax ) , then the first and fourth examples would qualify for civil legal aid without payment of any contribution . |
| 18 | A clinical decision had been made in the 1960s that this hospital should serve elderly people , while the other two hospitals would care for acute admissions and the ‘ chronic ’ long-stay population . |
| 19 | Normally the others would remain for another hour or so . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Kuwait 's Ministry of Power and Water last week estimated that water supplies would last for 12 days if the slick reached desalination inlets , or for a month if the population was rationed to 4 litres per person per day . |
| 22 | 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 . |