Example sentences of "would be [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 2 | The retainer would be consideration for the ever-growing demands on top players and their time spent away from work . |
| 3 | The principle costs , according to the Energy Management Task force , would be £80–120 for the new equipment in each home , plus an installation cost similar to that for a conventional meter and timeswitch . |
| 4 | For the Mensheviks this implied that state power must pass to bourgeois parties , and although the proletariat must play a major , even leading role in overturning autocracy , it would be madness for the Social Democrats to take part in government . |
| 5 | Top whack would be £1,400 for a 14-foot ficus . |
| 6 | He had hoped there would be time for a quick cup of tea but it was n't to be . |
| 7 | She calculated that there would be time for a quick dip before afternoon tea , which Juliette normally served at a quarter to four . |
| 8 | Provided the Soviet regime could ensure its short-term survival , there would be time for the German revolution to bring political and material relief to the Soviet federation . |
| 9 | I mean , i it would be zilch for the Labour Party to try and swap candidates now . |
| 10 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |