Example sentences of "[noun pl] would [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The first , a vigorous piece of polemic written in verse , leaves the reader in no doubt about the strongly-held views of its anonymous author on the very positive policy which the royal council was urged to adopt towards the sea which , if England were not careful , foreigners from many nations would use for purposes , both commercial and military , detrimental to English interests .
2 Some of the lasses would kill for tab-ends and that .
3 To finance their more adventurous activities , banks would bid for investors ' money , competing with the other non-deposit-taking institutions which they increasingly resemble .
4 As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century , where symbols would stand for things and not words , engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study .
5 Chapman aimed to finish the season among the top five so that his players would qualify for bonuses under a new League scheme .
6 Sometimes he got them going , and usually when he did , his repairs would last for years .
7 Accompanying decrees would allow for changes to be made in civil service employment , pensions and the public health service , for increased financial autonomy for local authorities and for privatization .
8 Within that total ministers would bid for funds , but that total to which they had collectively agreed should not be breached .
9 " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations .
10 Ms Brown recognises the potential dilemma which the shift to community services would create for nurses already working in or waiting to go into the acute sector .
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