Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a rally held by the Sacred Union on July 30 , attended by 80,000 people , Tshisekedi said that the opposition would call for the resignation of the government , the dissolution of parliament and of the ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution , the dismissal of Mobutu and the installation of a transitional government . |
| 2 | The convoy , led by a police car and two police motorcycles , made its way through Long Island City , across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan then down First Avenue to the United Nations Plaza , the hotel where the Zimbalan delegation would stay for the duration of their three-day visit to New York . |
| 3 | As the representative from Rochdale said yesterday afternoon , she knew most people in the hall would vote for the return of the death penalty , at which the applause was loud and sustained . |
| 4 | And somehow , ’ he surveyed her — and there was that wry twist to his lips again , ‘ I do n't think even the most broad-minded onlooker would go for the ‘ sister ’ angle . |
| 5 | The Pact would provide for the withdrawal of Soviet forces following the formation of a coalition government in Kabul . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |
| 7 | Members were told the move would compensate for the loss of car parking spaces in the High Street . |
| 8 | The other major difficulty over the appointment of tutors and approval of syllabuses for classes and courses in the rural areas scheme was resolved by Professor Barker and Green who agreed that each providing body would submit for the information of the Rural Areas Committee its own approved panel of tutors and syllabuses of approved courses . |
| 9 | There are some who say the vision occurred at Halling and one sceptic says the wind whistling through the palace in its Ninous condition combined with his fever would account for the voices . |
| 10 | But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent . |
| 11 | This contact would account for the observed cooperativity of binding of multiple repressors to extended tandem repeats of met box sequences in natural operators . |
| 12 | There remained talk that the new king would pay for the destruction of the threshing machines which the agricultural workers believed lay at the root of their misery , and there were stories that the new police — the ‘ peelers ’ — had been armed with 6000 cutlasses from the Tower . |
| 13 | I did not hear the sailor 's words , but Lachlan forbade me to waken Hector , he said the morning would do for the news . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |
| 16 | The kind of thing a man would remember for the rest of his days . |
| 17 | They were to give their advice free as the Government would pay for the work . |
| 18 | The government would work for the " creation of a common European standard of human rights and united legal , economic and security space " , including institutionalizing the Helsinki process . |
| 19 | ( Given the choice between emulating Mick Jagger or , say , Sid Vicious , only a lunatic would plump for the latter , but in terms of films you might conceivably want to sit and watch , Sid and Nancy win hands down with their blood-splattered , smack-snorting Liebestod . ) |
| 20 | Assuming ratification by both parliaments the treaty would provide for the introduction from July 1 , 1990 , of " a currency union with a unified currency area and the Deutschmark as the common currency " . |
| 21 | Poland and the Soviet Union would work for the transformation of the existing bloc alliances into a new system of collective European security . |
| 22 | Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better . |
| 23 | Asked if he thought the situation would change for the better , Parreira shrugged his shoulders and sighed . |
| 24 | The television personality won £200 for the North Tees Scanner Appeal and hoping his good fortune would last for the rest of the day he put £50 on Middlesbrough to beat Manchester United at odds of 3–1 , and £150 on Robins Son , running in the 4pm race at Catterick . |
| 25 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 26 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 27 | Since the increase in tax revenue and the fall in unemployment expenditure would compensate for the cost of servicing the loan , there would be no burden on the exchequer . |
| 28 | At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund . |
| 29 | It was as though he thought keeping fit would compensate for the image of the decadent Arab which was reflected in most of the press . |