Example sentences of "would [be] [verb] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put the level of risk in perspective , one study concluded that anyone standing all day at a busy roadside with traffic containing 20 per cent diesel would be exposed to 1,000 times less benzo(a)pyrene than somebody smoking 10 to 15 cigarettes a day . |
| 2 | Except in criminal areas , initial advice should be given by an advice agency , such as a CAB , rather than a private practitioner , and criminal cases would be limited to one hour 's work . |
| 3 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 4 | That all cont all er payments would be limited to forty eightieths . |
| 5 | Microprocessors for real-time control applications ( e.g. Motorola 6800 , Intel 8080 ) have instruction cycle times of 1 — 2 us and therefore a software.based closed.loop control would be limited to 25–50 instructions per motor step at high speeds , which would restrict control to simple functions , such as step timing , step counting and phase sequencing . |
| 6 | The president of the National Monetary Board , Abelardo Pachano Bertero , stated in early January that debt interest payments would be limited to 30 per cent in 1990 , amounting to around $120,000,000 . |
| 7 | The plantations would be open to foreign acquisition but overall foreign ownership would be limited to 30 or 40 per cent . |
| 8 | Another industry chief reiterating his position at Geneva was Fiat SpA chairman Gianni Agnelli , who said that Japanese penetration would be limited to 15 to 18 per cent for a transitional period , and after that all restrictions should be dropped . |
| 9 | The Act did not specify what the rate was to be , but it was made clear that the initial rate of 40 per cent would be increased to 45 per cent and then to 50 per cent ‘ at reasonably short intervals ’ . |
| 10 | It envisaged expansion of higher education considerably beyond that recommended by Robbins , whereby student places would be increased to 750,000 by 1981 . |
| 11 | The rate of value added tax ( VAT ) was to be lowered from 25 to 22 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 ; taxes on electricity and fuel for industrial use would be abolished , while the tax on carbon dioxide emissions would be increased to 0.32 kronor per kilogramme of emission except for industry where it would be 0.08 kronor per kilogramme . |
| 12 | Under the new system , the Assembly would be increased to 108 deputies ; of the nine new seats for Moslems , three were for Shias and two each for Sunnis , Alawis and Druses . |
| 13 | The judge pronounced that , as he was so attracted by the number four , he would be sentenced to sixteen years ' imprisonment , four years for each of his four ‘ marriages ’ . |
| 14 | Under the terms of the IMF loan , the fiscal deficit would be kept to 3.2 per cent of gross domestic product , but public investment would be allowed to rise , with priority given to education , health , water and sanitation , as well as infrastructure and research and development . |
| 15 | By 1989 , in the so-called Summer plan , the Sarney government was still trying to control prices with a promise that inflation would be kept to 28 per cent/month . |
| 16 | Announced in 1988 , the programme had originally envisaged that FGD technology would be fitted to six power stations . |
| 17 | The solution proposed was a two-tier system by which government appointed peers would have the right to vote , hereditary peers being allowed to speak but not vote while the delaying powers on legislation would be cut to six months . |
| 18 | Current emissions of 500,000 tonnes a year would be cut to 73,000 tonnes once a modernization programme costing US$900,000,000 , funded in part by Finland , Norway and Sweden , had been carried out . |
| 19 | As announced on March 10 two shipyards in the Rostock area were to be sold to the Norwegian firm Kvaerner and one in Wismar to the German concern Bremer Vulkan ; the already much reduced workforce of 10,300 at these yards would be cut to 7,000 . |
| 20 | The present workforce of 112 would be cut to 60 . |
| 21 | It was initially feared that the number of grants would be cut to 50 per cent of the normal level ; however , the Council was able to allocate 65 per cent . |
| 22 | As a result of this and other lobbying , the Criminal Justice Act 1988 proclaimed that jury service would be extended to 70 , but as we suggested , those between 65 and 70 may decline , if they wish . |
| 23 | Under this proposal the preregistration period would be extended to two years with first and second year house officers working in pairs , sharing the on call commitment , and providing cover for each other to attend specially structured education programmes . |
| 24 | Panmure 's constituent left the member of parliament in no doubt about his expectation that the appointment would be transferred to one of his own friends , and in fact it was very difficult for a politician to evade such requests without disobliging a voter . |
| 25 | If this book were concerned only with the unsolved problem of biology , 90 per cent of it would be devoted to two topics : behaviour and development . |
| 26 | The number would be reduced to thirty . |
| 27 | King said that the existing army strength of 155,000 personnel would be reduced to 116,000 by 1992 , and the combined armed forces would shrink by 62,000 from its present level of 308,000 . |
| 28 | The sentence would be reduced to two years , with the balance of the sentence remaining to be served suspended ( the appellant having served six months ) . |
| 29 | In order to harmonize value added tax rates within the EC , VAT on items such as flowers , building land and artworks was increased ( a move expected to raise an extra F2,000 million in revenue in the second half of 1991 ) ; VAT on cars would be reduced to 18.6 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 30 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |