Example sentences of "this would [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would appear to be the end of the road for transsexuals as far as the law is concerned . |
| 2 | This would appear to be an eye witness account of the finding of the famous golden ‘ Rillaton Cup ’ . |
| 3 | This would appear to be unique to man . |
| 4 | This would appear to be paradoxical — yet it was so . |
| 5 | The frets here seem as soft as those on the Villain , and this would appear to be an area which the company will have to address , as it does them a disservice ; do they know how long poor quality bass frets last ? |
| 6 | At first sight this would appear to be a new development , but in reality it reflects a long-term trend which has been masked until now by a series of new acquisitions which have increased total sales each year . |
| 7 | This would appear to be so , but can anyone tell me why the 950i dropped its stitches off on the left of the machine and the 836 preferred the right ? |
| 8 | Given a dichotomous division between sensing and thinking this would appear to be the only option open to him . |
| 9 | In the wild this fish is reported as attaining a length of up to 18″ with a weight of 1½lb although this would appear to be the exception as species of about 6″ are more commonly the rule . |
| 10 | ( Since the income of the infirmary included contributions from the town as well as rural parishes , this would appear to be an early example of a circular movement of funds with which those acquainted with today 's public services may be familiar . ) |
| 11 | This would appear to be a herculean task for the relatively efficient and an impossible one for everyone else . |
| 12 | The interpretation of this would appear to be within the competence of the state of origin , and it is to be hoped that an interpretation reflecting the realities of the position would always be adopted ; what is important to the defendant is prompt access to the information he needs in order to judge how to respond to the current move by the other party . |
| 13 | ( In the penal field , this would appear to be true of the Home Office which has been largely successful over the years in getting its strategy of ‘ penological pragmatism ’ implemented : see Chapters 1 and 10 ; Bottoms , 1990a ; and Fitzgerald and Sim , 1990 . ) |
| 14 | ‘ Ah yes , certainly this would appear to be , if not a proposal , a promise . |
| 15 | Although Stephen 's definition of rape required fear of immediate bodily harm and this would appear to be the position in Scotland , there is no modern English authority to this effect . |
| 16 | At first sight , this would appear to be a Community instrument instructing Member States as to how to exercise their national competence . |
| 17 | From the evidence of the biographical sources , this would appear to be a nearly complete list of the mevleviyet kadiliks of the time ; the only surprising omission is the kadilik of Mecca , which seems to have been a mevleviyet for some years before 963 . |
| 18 | Prima facie this would appear to be a classic Stilk v. Myrick case . |
| 19 | This would appear to be a major company with Australian connections . |
| 20 | This would appear to be a higher standard than that required in the United Kingdom where copyright law has developed in a pragmatic rather than principled manner . |
| 21 | Indeed , this would appear to be the judgement of the EC member countries . |
| 22 | Workers are unworried by the erosion of W÷P resulting from increases in P , but they will strenuously resist the same erosion of W÷P resulting from reductions in W. At first blush this would appear to be yet another manifestation of the irrational phenomenon of money illusion affecting the supply of labour . |
| 23 | 16a ) but , if drawn accurately , this would appear to be a stylised version of more elegant examples . |
| 24 | This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth . |
| 25 | This would seem to be unnecessarily pessimistic and may be a conclusion laid at the door of present organisational configurations in our schools . |
| 26 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 27 | The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre . |
| 28 | However , in principle this would seem to be the most promising avenue to explore to furnish us with a better understanding of causal relations . |
| 29 | This would seem to be completely at variance with human expectations ; the requirement for a ‘ god ’ survives all . |
| 30 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |