Example sentences of "for [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance . |
| 2 | He claimed that Iran badly needed TOW anti-tank missiles and in return for them would get the American hostages being held in Beirut released . |
| 3 | ‘ But I ca n't imagine that your plan for me would enhance Bo-Bo 's pleasure . ’ |
| 4 | The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’ |
| 5 | Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself . |
| 6 | The price you paid for yours would sound about right . |
| 7 | The delegates supported a motion to create a co-operative bank network , the capital for which would come from part of the government subsidies to farmers for 1992 of 6,500 million roubles . |
| 8 | The objective was not outright dominance , it was posturing for who would head the table and set the agenda at the peace conference . |
| 9 | I think if a museum gets to be talked about ‘ Oh , well , they 've sold this and they 've sold that ’ I for one would want to make very sure that whatever I gave them could n't be sold . |
| 10 | Well it does seem that women are most unrepresented , and I for one would recommend positive discrimination . |
| 11 | For whoever would save his life will lose it . |
| 12 | He would chase down green horses and harness-break them , then Mr. Mendez would buy what he wanted and Russell and two White Mountain Apaches who rode for him would deliver the horses to Delgado 's or one of the other relay stations on the way south to Benson . |
| 13 | If we look at Gandhi 's teaching in this connection we see that self-alienation for him would involve ignorance ( avidyā ) of the true nature of the Self ( Ātman ) . |
| 14 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 15 | Les , finally reunited with his beloved dog , was especially moved that no one who had helped to care for him would accept the £50 award . |
| 16 | A share for everybody would mean less than half a mouthful and if " everybody " meant natives as well , the amount you received would hardly be worth opening your jaws for . |
| 17 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 18 | She had known that his love for her would remain , and ‘ for her to have acted on that knowledge ’ in resorting to the deception ‘ made her deed unforgivable ’ . |
| 19 | The picture would , of course , be ‘ a cinch for exploitation ’ for it would fit in nicely with ‘ the usual fashion shows which many of the de luxe houses give in conjunction with the department stores in their cities ’ ; in fact , Variety concluded , it ‘ was probably made with that in mind ’ . |
| 20 | The change would be nonetheless profound for it would involve a revaluation of the priorities given to these claims for attention . |
| 21 | The last account of Haymo 's life here at Hailing which I shall mention , ( for it would take a volume to write his life ) , was in the years of the plague 1348–9 . |
| 22 | The ‘ combat ’ called for here would certainly have been ‘ risky ’ for it would have led inevitably to the destruction of both the Republican party and the Reagan administration . |
| 23 | She was trembling , hot tears sprang to her eyes , she wanted to cover her face with her hands , but did not dare attempt such a defending gesture for it would have seemed a patent provocation ; besides she knew how to stand in the face of anger . |
| 24 | The idea of the futile brave attempt to soften the life up here — for it would have been hard and isolated when the house was built and savage in the winter — trying to set a garden on this soil , in this salt air , appealed to her . |
| 25 | This is generally called the tepidarium but it is doubtful that it was in fact such a room for it would have been too immense to heat and no hypocausts have been discovered under it . |
| 26 | As far as the first case is concerned , I take it that part of the process of rational reflection on a set of moral principles and courses of action for myself would involve consulting others ( the experts , if you like ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Laura had a very practical eye for what would sell and a very shrewd idea of pricing . |
| 28 | In 1946 a Committee at Stoke began planning a curriculum for what would become the University of Keele . |
| 29 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 30 | On 2 September Coleridge parted from Southey in Bristol — Southey said it was ‘ like the losing a limb ’ — and began a characteristically slow and interrupted progress back to Cambridge for what would prove to be his final term . |