Example sentences of "to do [adv] would [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is hard-programmed can not easily be changed ; to do so would mean a drastic re-ordering of the system . |
| 2 | To do so would require a delay of many years in order to put British Telecom 's accounts into a form that would make piecemeal disposals possible ’ . |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 4 | To do so would imply a certain easiness between them . |
| 5 | To do so would constitute a stumbling block to the reconversion of Protestants who favored the new astronomy . |
| 6 | Tacit collusion , on the other hand , would involve no explicit agreement but simply the unspoken acceptance by the two firms that it was in their best interests each to produce half the monopoly output on the understanding that failure to do so would provoke a price war . |
| 7 | To do otherwise would give a crude , aesthetically poor effect . |