Example sentences of "would [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 2 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 3 | He confirmed that he did think it would be for the best if I dropped out of family life , and in my heart , I knew he was right . |
| 4 | War had been declared , and the fate of Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland was sealed , as it would be for several other countries . |
| 5 | We will also be showing why continued research should be permitted , and how disastrous it would be for all women if the policy advocated by the Pro-Life lobby were to be adopted . |
| 6 | One option for GM would be for the American company to convert its cash investment into equity through an issue of new shares after the Government 's veto on takeover expires . |
| 7 | How much better it would be for ministers to be seen in the constituencies giving us the ammunition we need to fight on the doorsteps . ’ |
| 8 | The prediction would be for the ownership of cars to rise by 52,000 in 2 years , and so total market demand for cars in Panaragua in this period would be about 52,000 ( or slightly more , allowing for old cars being scrapped ) . |
| 9 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 10 | The scholar fed his pet dragons on the choicest tit-bits , bringing them rump steaks of the purest virgins and a daily supply of swallows ' flesh — not realising that such things , for true dragons , are treats , are after-dinner delicacies and no more a fit diet than endless chocolates would be for you . |
| 11 | Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis . |
| 12 | ‘ You think it would be for the best then ? ’ |
| 13 | An alternative would be for patients to keep a daily record of their food . |
| 14 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 15 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 16 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 17 | The first step in forging an alliance of Euro-Parliamentarians would be for national MPs to be invited to the special hearings on changes to the Rome Treaty being organised by the European Parliament . |
| 18 | ‘ The worst possible scenario would be for the civilian government to remain in a weak and powerless state , forcing us to maintain a military occupation in the city , ’ said Mr Roberts , who is dean of the law school at DePaul University in Chicago . |
| 19 | The alternative , if three of the commoners continued to hold out , would be for them all to claim compensation for lost rights from the Lands Tribunal . |
| 20 | One answer would be for the judges ruling on applications for chapter 11 to get tough in backing creditors ' claims against the firm . |
| 21 | The only way to avoid that would be for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give the health service an open-ended budget . |
| 22 | A writer should suffer and all that — it would be for her own good in the long run . |
| 23 | If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ? |
| 24 | The mistake would be for the one to cancel out the other . |
| 25 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
| 26 | For the DUP to embrace this accord and attempt to make it work would be for it to abandon its opposition to anything which presages a united Ireland . |
| 27 | Going about her daily routine , Wilson was dry-eyed , as she knew Mrs Browning would be for a while yet . |
| 28 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 29 | The most valuable form of subsidy , he says , would be for the Government to take a real and permanent interest in the British film industry , to foster — simply with time and energy — a nurturing climate . |
| 30 | The best thing would be for M Mitterrand to introduce constitutional reform reducing the presidential term from seven to five years and step down in 1993 . |