Example sentences of "[noun pl] they would [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After three months they would be entitled to the statutory minimum wage in Germany , but this would still be less than the wages taken home by Germans working on the same site .
2 Except that if they were cowboys they would be dead .
3 And now that Wang Sau-leyan had come to his senses they would be strong again .
4 Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory .
5 If J. Sainsburys or Waitrose could see us using the necks of 40/60 mm jam jars they would be surprised !
6 What tales they would be able to tell once they got back home again !
7 I would reject the submission made to the Court of Appeal that so long as the terms of paragraph 33 had been brought to the notice of the prosecution authorities they would be unable to adduce in a criminal court evidence disclosed in compliance with the order .
8 Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension .
9 Mr Manson added that society did not seem to realise that alcohol and drugs caused the brain to malfunction and permit ‘ those who take them to do acts , even murder , which in their sane moments they would be horrified even to contemplate ’ .
10 The two Englishmen missed their family and their lives in England , and had thought that even with no money and no civilian clothes they would be able to make it back across France to one of the Channel ports .
11 Within towns they would be little systems of shopping , business , industrial and residential streets .
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