Example sentences of "would be [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she did n't hurry she 'd be late for work . |
| 2 | No doubt we were all thinking he was crazy , or that if we stopped we 'd be late for work . |
| 3 | For administrative reasons it would be undesirable for base rates to change every time money market rates changed , but if the change is large enough , then a base rate change becomes necessary . |
| 4 | It would be held if possible at St Ninian 's Crieff , which would mean that , if the Warden , Peter , could be involved , the event would be zero-rated for V.A.T. ( as had been the case at Carberry with the involvement of Jock Stein ) . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , her descriptions of specialist homes show that few are specially designed and few have the enhanced staffing levels that would be necessary for specialist care . |
| 6 | For the recipient to increase as much of X as shown at point 7 , it would be necessary for income to be increased to point 9 on the income consumption curve . |
| 7 | Education on this and other health risks of cigarette smoking is often persuasive for the general population but would be ineffective for nicotine addiction just as education on other specific health risks is ineffective in other forms of addictive disease . |
| 8 | The fact that other works of art not belonging to Capricorn were also on the premises did not affect that conclusion : nor did the absence of any outward sign of Capricorn on the premises have any significance , since it would be uncharacteristic for art dealers in objects of such high quality to place conspicuous nameplates on their premises . |
| 9 | It would be usual for Target 's accounting period to " correspond " to the rest of the vendor group 's accounting periods for s409 purposes . |
| 10 | It would be inconceivable for pop musicians or film stars to be charged with bringing their profession into disrepute , but footballers are different , they are expected to bear the burden of representing values that few individuals can live up to . |
| 11 | Mm no they 're they 're fine and they they would be nice for sort of best shoes would n't they ? |
| 12 | It was while Cecilia was running upstairs for the third time to tell Tina she must get up , she really must or she would be late for school , that she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll . |
| 13 | Travellers said they would be late for work and miss meetings . |
| 14 | She wrapped up the mask politely although she heard the gong sound and knew she would be late for dinner . |
| 15 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 16 | ‘ This would be great for travelling — and warm enough for those brutal Russian winters , ’ said Saska , as our star slipped into something decidedly comfortable , and performed a rather more professional twirl than most make-over ‘ guinea pigs ’ can manage . |
| 17 | Where this did not happen it would be possible for part of the membership of the Exchange Advisory Committees ( provided for in section 2 , subsection v of the Act ) to be co-opted to assist with the local education employment bureaux which were being started in Scotland and in parts of England . |
| 18 | Where a local authority proposes to take action under s.92(1) ( d ) or ( c ) and it would be possible for action to be taken under the above 1906 Act , consent must first be obtained from the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 19 | This was a tall order for a system based on discretes and a simplified circuitry which would be easy for home construction ( and to set up ) without critical adjustments . |
| 20 | It would be easy for Therapy ? to fling back the prison door and let this crazy loose to wreak havoc but , to their credit , they resist this temptation and push your nose even closer to the bars , where the full extent of their character 's madness is revealed through a wiry guitar drone and , especially effective this , a sudden swarm of string arrangement . |
| 21 | The signature certainly looked right , he 'd seen it often enough , but then it would be easy for Himmler to get the Führer 's signature on something , just one document amongst many . |
| 22 | Not all triable either way cases that are currently committed to the Crown Court for trial would be suitable for trial by magistrates . |
| 23 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 24 | He wrote urging him to compose ‘ something short , easy and popular ’ which would be suitable for publication . |
| 25 | It is impossible to list all the fabrics that would be suitable for window treatments , as the range is constantly growing . |
| 26 | An inexperienced breeder should consult a vet or an experienced breeder for advice on whether or not their dipped-back mare would be suitable for breeding . |
| 27 | But this does not mean that the carbon-zinc battery would be suitable for use in your detector . |
| 28 | Now my opinion is , is that was the first stage of the government 's master plan to create a health service that would be ripe for privatization . |
| 29 | Bartram usually made his expeditions in the autumn when farm work diminished and when seeds in the wild would be ripe for collection and specimens best transplanted . |
| 30 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |