Example sentences of "they would be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be a classic mix of tanks and infantry and artillery , capable of fighting a conventional war on the traditional Nato-Warsaw Pact frontier . |
| 2 | That given time , they would be a self-supporting but those of us , there was Axminster , there was Exeter , there was Exmouth er , they 've all got them |
| 3 | In the third place peasant correspondents in particular looked as if they would be a useful source of information for the central authorities on dissatisfaction in the countryside and on the rising influence of peasant types not in favour with the party . |
| 4 | The Anfield squad gave blood after a training session this week to see if they would be a suitable match for 10-year-old leukaemia sufferer Paul Mainwaring . |
| 5 | They would be a formidable group — men and women trained in the skills and methods of STASI , the old East German secret police , the Romanian Securitate , etc . |
| 6 | So business and commercial rates would cease to be imposed locally : they would be a national tax available for redistribution to local government . |
| 7 | It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ . |