Example sentences of "[noun sg] would be to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |
| 2 | The massacres would not be right from his viewpoint and wrong from theirs , he would be objectively right to kill and they to resist being killed ; the parallel would be to two contenders for a job both being right to apply in the eyes of all , not to each thinking himself right to apply and the other wrong . |
| 3 | erm My inclination would be to those people who phone up and say ‘ look , I borrowed your kit and I ca n't work out whether the red plug goes in the blue hole ’ or whatever , to say , ‘ Well , tough ’ you know |
| 4 | A lot of his personality , you know you have to like jolly people into liking and sublimating what their own inclination would be to some kind of group style . |
| 5 | This official would be to public law rather what the Director of Public Prosecutions is to the criminal law . |
| 6 | If the effect of a joint research and development ( R&D ) agreement was that the parties no longer conducted independent research and development , this would be enough to attract the application of Article 85 ( 1 ) and the agreement would be to that extent prohibited unless Article 85(3) applied . |