Example sentences of "would be [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payment would be made only if the unemployment was involuntary ; disputed claims would be referred to newly appointed local committees consisting of representatives of capital and labour ; workers would be entitled to refuse work under conditions inferior to the norm for their occupation . |
| 2 | She smiled dazzlingly at the little reporter and hoped that she would be referred to as ‘ charming ’ . |
| 3 | He trusted that they would be enabled to further the progress already made in rebuilding the domestic stability and economic strength of the United Kingdom and in weaving still more closely the threads which bound together the countries of the Commonwealth or , as he still preferred to call it , the Empire . |
| 4 | It soon became apparent that the working time each week would be limited to about two hours . |
| 5 | Gilmont said he did not expect the bank to lay off personnel as a result of increased EDI use ; rather , they would be redeployed to more ‘ value-added ’ jobs . |
| 6 | Everything would be geared to quite ruthless war operations . |
| 7 | The outer security ring is about 22 miles from the city and this would be extended to about 62 miles as deals are struck with local tribes , he said . |
| 8 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 9 | The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues . |
| 10 | This material would be approximately 10 cm from the probe and 10 cm off its axis , and at this point the detector signal would be reduced to less than 5% of its value on the detector axis . |
| 11 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 12 | The 80 emergency exchanges would be slashed to just three with the loss of 8,000 trained operators . |
| 13 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 14 | Ther airfields would be put to far better use and it would put an end to the police harassing us |
| 15 | Exit polls in all six states indicated , however , that Ross Perot , a Texan billionaire who was campaigning as an undeclared independent candidate , would be preferred to either Bush or Clinton by supporters of both parties , with the exception of Republican voters in Ohio . |
| 16 | The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association . |