Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] would [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wide as this range of activities would seem to be , the registers omit one vital aspect of the Council 's work . |
| 2 | Questions about the quality and price of commodities would seem to be natural applications for expert determination , but events have not borne out that assumption . |
| 3 | If the Managing Director of Cords Plc were to require that next year 's profit show a 15% increase over last year 's performance , how many pairs of trousers would have to be sold each month ( i ) assuming that the Sales Director 's policies were adopted and ( ii ) assuming that they were not adopted . |
| 4 | If all long term care was to be given within the NHS the number of beds would have to be expanded by at least a third and probably nearly doubled if , as is often the case , those in residential homes require nursing care . |
| 5 | Examples of this are far from rare : on the contrary , this state of affairs would seem to be the norm , for example , for senses which have undergone ‘ metaphorical extension ’ . |
| 6 | For that to be possible , the Silmarils and their chain of stories would have to be multi-faceted indeed , leaving scope for ‘ other minds and hands ’ to add their own significances . |
| 7 | The Philips Report ( HMSO 1954 ) forecast little change in the dependency ratio overall in the following twenty-five years ( 1954–79 ) , on the assumption that the same proportion of persons would continue to be employed in each age-group . |
| 8 | It was calculated that 80 per cent of patients would need to be moved between wards to achieve sectorization . |
| 9 | Planners have estimated that belts of trees would have to be some 100 metres deep to reduce noise significantly . |
| 10 | She realized that the mechanics of his deceitful nature would function whatever he truly felt , that the conveyor-belt of lies would continue to be fed even when the demand for them had ceased to exist . |
| 11 | This pattern of findings would appear to be impossible to accommodate from the viewpoint of phenomenology . |
| 12 | No one from smiths would agree to be interviewed , but the references to civil aircraft are believed to refer to the drop in the production in america of boeing 737 jets , for which Smiths make cockpit instruments . |
| 13 | If they stay that way and if the default rate were to rise as high as 15% , the spread over Treasuries would have to be 15 percentage points to make junk break even . |
| 14 | The assumption that the market takes place just once is , of course , patently unrealistic : repeated market interaction among firms would appear to be the rule . |
| 15 | At least 35 per cent of the purchase price for shares would have to be paid in privatization vouchers . |