Example sentences of "they would [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a little more driving practice , they would make a perfect couple . |
| 2 | They would make a splendid focal point in a forthcoming issue ; the various editors could produce copy related in various ways to new trends in the States … |
| 3 | announced her resignation as Society Chairman as from the AGM and took great pleasure in introducing as next Society Chairman and as Vice-Chairman , she was sure they would make a good team and wished them every success in the future . |
| 4 | They would make a strange sight in the towns round about : clowns richer than knights or lords , who limped in wearing felt boots , to buy , buy and buy . |
| 5 | It was suggested that three or four lights would be sufficient and that they would make a worthwhile contribution to road safety on this dangerous stretch of road where there is no footpath . |
| 6 | He had become certain by watching the preparations in the sepoy camp that they would make a major assault within the next few hours . |
| 7 | To put things into context , if half of the membership were to put up 10p a week into an HCB , they would make a total yearly contribution of £260,000 . |
| 8 | of ten , overnight , especially after a major row with her daughter , Marie 's mother , stricken with guilt , would swear to herself that she would make it up to Marie tomorrow : tomorrow , they would make a fresh start . |
| 9 | They would acquire a certain potential for juxtapositions , a grammatical valency , which is now captured by the idea of the category of an expression , due to Frege and Ajdukiewicz . |
| 10 | So we have the nine daughters of Benjamin James Titford : three died young , one remained a spinster , three were Edwardian brides , two married during the early years of the reign of King George V. Their lives would take them far apart from each other and from Curry Rivel itself — yet they would remain a close-knit family , for all the physical distance which separated them . |
| 11 | Yet if they did , given the slow and cumbrous movement of the Hapsburg and Russian armies , they would leave a small temporary weakness in the centre of their line . |
| 12 | There appeared an increasing possibility , however , that they would face a powerful challenge in the November presidential election from the independent candidacy of Texan billionaire Ross Perot . |
| 13 | Members of the Committee of Arab Local Councils announced on Oct. 2 that they would form a political party to contest the next parliamentary elections . |
| 14 | On 8 August he and Nkrumah put their signatures to a document intended to seal their partnership : they would form a Federal Union and ‘ any state or territory in Africa is free to join this Union ’ . |
| 15 | They would form a closed surface , like the surface of the earth . |
| 16 | This was chiefly at the behest of the Home Office who , according to Dorothy Hardisty , ‘ urged that in their own interest [ Jewish children ] should not all be placed in cities like London or Leeds where they would form a conspicuous Jewish enclave ’ . |
| 17 | In so far as the assistance of the Americans was seen to be desirable or even imperative against Nazi Germany , he feared that they would exact a heavy price at the expense of Britain 's trade and her links with the Empire . |
| 18 | At any output such as Q 1 , the last film must yield consumers P 1 , pounds worth of extra utility ; otherwise they would demand a different quantity from Q 1 . |
| 19 | If people understood formal legislation as only a matter of negotiated solutions to discrete problems , with no underlying commitment to any more fundamental public conception of justice , they would draw a sharp distinction between two kinds of encounters with fellow citizens : those that fall within and those that fall outside the scope of some past political decision . |
| 20 | But it looked like , instead of being a clenched and threatening fist , they would present a welcoming , open hand . |
| 21 | Thus individuals might retire and rise progressively later each day until they would miss a whole sleep because it was going to clash with daytime commitments . |
| 22 | The clubs countered by saying they would boycott a scheduled meeting between the WRU 's competition sub-committee and the leagues working party . |
| 23 | I should have to get other opinions but I 'd guess they would fetch a good deal of money at auction . |
| 24 | Not only would their number have to be increased but they would also need to undergo years of specialized training for which they would expect a commensurate reward . |
| 25 | Using that as their base-line ( or why would they have contracted her ? ) they would expect a high performance in her theoretical IQ . |
| 26 | It is important that high frequencies are not allowed to enter the delay line as they would generate a severe form of distortion known as ‘ aliasing ’ distortion . |
| 27 | But it was kind of him to have organised this — and at least they would command a good view of the bridge . |
| 28 | It was also indicated to them that while on the grade they would perform a limited range of duties as defined in a list which was published at that time . |
| 29 | With the horse-trading in the event of a hung parliament certain to be ferocious , Liberal Democrats are keen to indicate that they would strike a tough bargain . |
| 30 | The Hungarian Democratic Union in Romania ( HDUR ) protested to the government over the appointments , and Hungarian demonstrators in the two counties — Covasna and Harghita — said on July 23 that they would wear a yellow star " a symbol of sad memories of civil intolerance and discrimination " if the decision were not revoked . |