Example sentences of "would be [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 2 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 3 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 4 | In the face of continuing Hungarian objections , Meciar was reported to have agreed to consultations involving the European Communities , but only on ecological aspects ; the findings would be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague . |
| 5 | Near the top of column three on page 79 the text read ‘ the net originating difference of £12,050 is taxed at 33% , and so £3,976 would be credited to the deferred tax account ( assuming a full tax charge ) ’ . |
| 6 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 7 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 8 | First , instead of a figure based on shares , the members ' liability would be limited to a fixed sum expressed in the memorandum of association on registration of the company . |
| 9 | Its jurisdiction would be limited to the Yugoslav conflict and to war crimes committed after 1 January 1991 . |
| 10 | If the Minister were to detail the matters , he would strengthen his position in Europe by showing the massive discrimination and harm that would be done to the Scottish agricultural industry . |
| 11 | The matter had been taken up with the Bank of Ireland and he would be recommending to the incoming Executive Committee that it should be referred to the Labour Court , on the basis that it is gross discrimination . |
| 12 | Paul Devereux has called these lines ‘ geomantic corridors ’ , where the same standards of straightness which would be applied to a traditional ley are inappropriate . |
| 13 | Nottingham believed that once Nonconformists realised how easy it would be to conform to the established Church , few would wish to suffer the inconveniences that Dissent still brought with it , so that the integrity of the Anglican Church would be preserved , without running the risk of a perpetual Protestant schism . |
| 14 | A credit for interest owed would not normally have been set up so the interest would be debited to the nominal account shown , which will then merely be transferred into the revenue account : |
| 15 | What would really terrify him would be to take to an experienced orchestra a Rachmaninov symphony , or well-known works , where everyone had expectations of a fresh miracle . |
| 16 | Cardinal Jozef Glemp , the primate of Poland , claimed that the 1987 agreement under which the nuns at the Carmelite convent would be re-located to an inter-faith centre nearby , had been negotiated by " incompetent " people and was a violation of the nuns ' rights . |
| 17 | Financial responsibility for giving support would be delegated to a local level in order to rekindle civic responsibility . |
| 18 | He said he would be writing to the chief executive of the county council to ask him why the decision had been taken . |
| 19 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 20 | Later in the day the taxi driver would be readmitted to the nearby hospital , this time in a state of shock and suffering from suspected rabies . |
| 21 | The Colorado majority in the December elections was expected to guarantee that no changes would be made to the new law . |
| 22 | Mr McNally said a bail application would be made to the High Court on Friday . |
| 23 | Godfrey McIvor , Central Region 's education convener , expressed disappointment at the parent ballot , and said a strong case would be made to the Scottish Secretary to keep St Mary 's in local authority control . |
| 24 | Some British students might actually do the course , though they would be kept to a small minority . |
| 25 | If full employment were to be achieved the economy would suck in imports and exports would be diverted to the domestic market . |
| 26 | It was decided that the decree would be presented to the Slovenian Assembly on June 19 . |
| 27 | In one view , the ‘ imaginary war ’ must continue , substituting new adversaries for the cold war enemy and in this sense the Gulf war would be compared to the Korean war — as the conflict which defines the new world order . |
| 28 | On May 15 the Kurdistan Front said that it was not possible at present to issue a list allowing Turkoman inhabitants of the region to elect candidates but that " at the first available opportunity " Turkoman candidates would be elected to the National Assembly . |
| 29 | If agreement could not be reached with a reporter on disputed material , it would be sent to a joint information bureau in Dhahran , and , if still unresolved , to the US Assistant Secretary of Defence responsible for public affairs . |
| 30 | Should this be accepted , he would escape a mandatory life sentence for each murder and would be sent to a mental hospital , with the prospect of release if the trial judge were to accept a petition that he was no longer mentally ill nor a danger to the public . |