Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do so might be to meet a lot of the problems of youth in our society before they become social problems as well . |
| 2 | One solution perhaps would be to give the best company car to the driver who has an accident free record or clean driving licence . |
| 3 | To do so would be to invite having a brick thrown through the window or the car 's tyres slashed . |
| 4 | Psychologists of vision , for example , have to think in terms of levels of representation that the nervous system computes and not to do so would be to render unintelligible the processes that occur between the transducing of light-rays into electrical impulses at the retina and the cortex recording the object as ( say ) a rigid cylinder rotating at such and such a distance from the viewing point . |
| 5 | But I would not make this a necessary condition when designing a border , since to do so would be to deny oneself the pleasure of many first-rate foliage plants . |
| 6 | Conversely , we could decide the question of whether a motorway should be built solely by considering whether landowners , whose property is to be acquired , will be properly compensated ; but to do so would be to ignore a large number of other important interests . |
| 7 | He was quick to point out , however , that one should not therefore equate the law of value with the law of labour expenditure , since to do so would be to lose sight of the specific historical form and character of value relations . |
| 8 | Bukharin rejected this since he argued that to do so would be to disregard the historical character of the dictatorship of the proletariat . |
| 9 | As Lord Wilberforce said in Suisse Atlantique : One may safely say that the parties can not in a contract have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party 's stipulations of all contractual force : to do so would be to reduce the contract to a mere declaration of intent . |
| 10 | Perhaps Althusser was unwilling to acknowledge this outright , because to do so would be to run the risk of departing from the fundamental Marxist doctrine asserting the primacy of the economic in social explanation . |
| 11 | Nobody had spoken of this new responsible attitude , because to do so would be to admit that his behaviour had previously left something to be desired , and my mother had spent too much time in implicit denial of this to waste it all now . |
| 12 | Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , did not co-operate because to do so would be to recognize the partition of Ireland . |
| 13 | Not to do so would be to infringe the essential autonomy of the student and objectivity of the activity . |
| 14 | To do so would be to deprive English art and literature of a unique 20th-century contribution . |
| 15 | To do so would be to broaden the potential range of literature to most of sociology and much philosophy and history besides . |
| 16 | Naturally , I felt the temptation to deny immediately and unambiguously such motivations as my employer was imputing to me , but saw in time that to do so would be to rise to Mr Farraday 's bait , and the situation would only become increasingly embarrassing . |
| 17 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 18 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 19 | To treat it separately would be to risk giving rise to the misconception that it should be separately timetabled , taught and assessed , rather than integrated in the speaking , listening , reading and writing activities of any English lesson . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that one way of improving the representation of women in the higher reaches of the civil service still further would be to make matters easier for them lower down the ladder ? |
| 21 | Benn promised that the first thing he would do when returning home would be to go straight to see Michael Watson . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ The purpose was , is and always will be to reflect life in Britain for a national television channel . ’ |
| 23 | This in itself is alarming , but a further probable consequence of this is even more alarming : whereas in the past local authorities would censor in isolation and in response to local pressure , the tendency now may be to follow ‘ the party line ’ . |
| 24 | Our European priorities now should be to campaign for the sort of policies and changes we would like to see in nineteen ninety six and seek the earliest possible opt-in to the Social Chapter . |
| 25 | His concern now must be to protect what remains of his kingdom . |
| 26 | Take what occurs around September 4th and 11th , when the Sun is brilliantly aspected by Neptune and Saturn , as confirmation that your main objective now must be to cut all the dead wood out of your life and really start afresh . |
| 27 | To cut it loose now could be to see it sink . |
| 28 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 29 | To burst it now would be to risk the messiness of it re-grouping , possibly cloning itself across the infected area and returning in a small battalion . |
| 30 | ‘ I know you 're tight , Woody , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ but the only thing you could do for us now would be to shoot the old man . |