Example sentences of "would [be] [vb pp] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The bank 's permanent directorate , hitherto comprising five members ( with 10 the maximum ) , would be expanded to a maximum of eight to include east German representation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For most of these children their attendance at school would be limited to a pitifully short period of their young lives . |
| 7 | He would be missed to a degree all out of proportion to his usefulness . |
| 8 | Paul Devereux has called these lines ‘ geomantic corridors ’ , where the same standards of straightness which would be applied to a traditional ley are inappropriate . |
| 9 | This of " course would cause frictions and everyone from the municipality would be called to an assembly to explain why the distribution was necessary and just . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Financial responsibility for giving support would be delegated to a local level in order to rekindle civic responsibility . |
| 12 | Wage levels would not be controlled and personal and corporation taxes would be kept to a minimum . |
| 13 | But the change in phenotype would be gradual and concurrent in all individuals ; the genetic variation and differences in fitness between individuals in the population would be kept to a minimum . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State 's interventions would be kept to a minimum and would usually focus on strategic issues . |
| 15 | Some British students might actually do the course , though they would be kept to a small minority . |
| 16 | He promised that any job losses would be kept to a minimum . |
| 17 | It looked as if the Elves would be slain to a man . |
| 18 | The path would be built to a width of 2 metres , with a foundation of aggregate and a whindust surface . |
| 19 | The path would be built to a width of 2 metres , with a foundation of aggregate and a whindust surface . |
| 20 | In the future evolution of society under women 's guidance , sex would be raised to a higher plane , where physical passion would be transmuted by the power of human love . |
| 21 | The data would be sent to a computer and , as with telephone calls , logged , costed and sent out in the form of a periodic bill . |
| 22 | Now she would be sent to a convent of the same order in Dublin where she would do a secretarial course . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sometimes a young civil servant would be appointed to a subordinate revenue position immediately after passing the first law examination . |
| 26 | The leads from the stop-watch would go to a box containing a small battery which in its turn would be connected to a flash bulb at the base of the bomb . |
| 27 | In this way , the more specific question would be related to a more comprehensive framework of conceptual evaluation , and particular techniques seen to be realizations of more general principles of teaching . |
| 28 | That account would be transferred to a ledger account and a statement sent to ‘ Silver Tours Ltd ’ for payment . |
| 29 | It was eventually agreed that sovereignty would be transferred to a United States of Indonesia ( USI ) before 30 December 1949 . |
| 30 | After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 . |